Ba Jin

Writer and politician · People's Republic of China · 1904–2005

Sagittarius 2.5° · born November 25, 1904
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The chart's headline is a opposition: Venus and Neptune within 0.2°, taste wired to imagination. An opposition is the tradition’s tug of war. Both ends are real, and the work is holding them at once rather than picking a winner.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Chengdu—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 2.5° Sagittarius — the first decan, 0°–10°, which the tradition sub-rules by Jupiter. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Sagittarius and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

Closer to the ground

The personal planets sit Mercury at 16.2° Sagittarius, Venus at 7.9° Capricorn, Mars at 2.9° Libra. Mercury in a fire sign reads as a mind that decides at speaking speed; Venus in a earth sign reads as taste for the substantial and the lasting; Mars in a air sign reads as drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

Jupiter and Pluto hold the closest angle here — a sextile, 0.1° wide. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted. Behind it, Venus opposition Neptune at 0.2°, and the Sun sextile Mars at 0.4° — 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.

What the angles build

Venus opposes Neptune while both square Mars. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, three sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Mercury in Sagittarius at 16.2° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Libra at 2.9° is in detriment; Saturn in Aquarius at 15.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in fire, 3 in air, 1 in earth, 1 in water by element, 4 mutable, 4 cardinal, 1 fixed by modality. A fire emphasis is read as appetite for the first move, with information gathered by doing rather than before doing. Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.3° 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: Ba Jin · revision 1355308651
Wikidata: Q13005 · revision 2517787711
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1904-11-25 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Chengdu, People's Republic of China · Q30002
Coordinates: 30.6600, 104.0633 · from Chengdu
Reference instant: 1904-11-25T04:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.32° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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