Antonio Machado

Poet and teacher · Spain · 1875–1939

Leo 3.0° · born July 26, 1875
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 3.0° Leo, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

3.0° of Leo is the Sun's exact seat — first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by the Sun in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

The personal registers

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 13.5° Cancer, Venus was at 17.2° Cancer, Mars was at 21.4° Sagittarius. Read together: thought steeped in tone and memory; attraction that works by atmosphere; effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

Closest first: the Sun to Neptune, a square with 0.0° of slack. The old texts treat a square as the aspect you feel earliest and thank latest: obstruction first, competence afterwards. Behind it, Jupiter trine Saturn at 0.4°, and Saturn square Pluto at 0.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

What the angles build

The Moon makes no major aspect that survives the day; the old reading gives such a planet autonomy — it acts alone, sometimes loudly.

The classical map

The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks three placements here. The Sun in Leo at 3.0° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; the Moon in Taurus at 11.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Saturn in Aquarius at 24.2° is in domicile. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives fire 3, earth 3, water 2, air 2, and fixed 6, cardinal 3, mutable 1 across the modes. Saturn was retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Taurus for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.2° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 11.6°.

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

Source article: Antonio Machado · revision 1365993141
Wikidata: Q243771 · revision 2520668833
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1875-07-26 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Seville, Spain · Q8717
Coordinates: 37.3886, -5.9950 · from Seville
Reference instant: 1875-07-26T12:14:44.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.15° · The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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