Alma Mahler

Composer and painter · Austria · 1879–1964

Virgo 7.6° · born August 31, 1879
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The chart's headline is a opposition: the Sun and Jupiter within 0.1°, identity wired to expansion. Across the wheel, each body sees the other in full. The old reading is not conflict so much as permanent mutual visibility.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Vienna—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

Measured rather than labelled, the Sun holds 7.6° Virgo: the first decan, whose classical sub-ruler is Mercury. A earth sign, read here in its first face.

The fast planets

Mercury holds 25.6° Leo, Venus holds 8.4° Libra, Mars holds 20.5° Taurus — in the old shorthand, a mind that decides at speaking speed; taste led by wit and proportion; drive that grinds rather than flares.

The angles that hold

The Sun and Jupiter hold the closest angle here — a opposition, 0.1° wide. Across the wheel, each body sees the other in full. The old reading is not conflict so much as permanent mutual visibility. Behind it, Mercury square Pluto at 1.8°, and the Sun conjunction Uranus at 2.8° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

What the angles build

The day-stable angles form no closed figure. Nothing funnels; each aspect is its own negotiation, which the tradition reads as a chart of separate treaties rather than one campaign.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, four sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Venus in Libra at 8.4° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Taurus at 20.5° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Pisces at 7.8° is in domicile; Saturn in Aries at 14.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Among the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 5 earth, 2 fire, 1 air, 1 water; by modality, 4 fixed, 3 mutable, 2 cardinal. An earth emphasis reads as patience with material reality — slow hands, durable results. Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.9° between one midnight and the next. The hour would decide it; no hour was recorded. The reading keeps the question open rather than flipping a coin dressed as astrology.

Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes

Source article: Alma Mahler · revision 1363671242
Wikidata: Q156898 · revision 2517817598
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1879-08-31 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria · Q1741
Coordinates: 48.2083, 16.3725 · from Vienna
Reference instant: 1879-08-31T10:54:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.91° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Alma_Mahler_1899.jpg: Unknown authorUnknown author derivative work: Fewskulchor (talk) · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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