Arthur Rimbaud

Poet · France · 1854–1891

Libra 26.8° · born October 20, 1854
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The chart's headline is a sextile: Mercury and Jupiter within 0.7°, thinking wired to expansion. A sixth of the circle is close enough for cooperation and far enough that it stays optional.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun sits at 26.8° Libra — the third decan, 20°–30°, which the tradition sub-rules by Mercury. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Libra and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

The fast planets

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Scorpio (19.1°), Venus in Libra (13.4°), Mars in Sagittarius (7.0°): a mind that absorbs before it argues, taste led by wit and proportion, drive that ignites on contact.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Mercury to Jupiter, a sextile with 0.7° of slack. A sixth of the circle is close enough for cooperation and far enough that it stays optional. Behind it, Uranus sextile Neptune at 1.9°, and Saturn square Neptune at 1.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.

Figures in the geometry

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, three sit in a sign it has an opinion about. The Sun in Libra at 26.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Libra at 13.4° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Capricorn at 19.8° is in fall. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives air 4, earth 3, water 2, fire 1, and cardinal 4, fixed 3, mutable 3 across the modes. Saturn, Uranus, 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Libra for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.1° between midnight and midnight. Whatever the unrecorded hour was, it happened inside one Moon sign — the degree floats, the sign holds. At the noon reference it stands at 9.5°.

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

Source article: Arthur Rimbaud · revision 1362024922
Wikidata: Q493 · revision 2522823955
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1854-10-20 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Charleville, France · Q2960786
Coordinates: 49.7725, 4.7200 · from Charleville
Reference instant: 1854-10-20T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.13° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Étienne Carjat · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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