Bedřich Smetana

Composer and teacher · Czech Republic · 1824–1884

Pisces 11.9° · born March 2, 1824
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Across the nine placements whose signs are settled, cardinal leads with five. The cardinal signs begin things; a chart weighted there treats every stall as a starting gun.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's exact place is 11.9° Pisces. That falls in the second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by the Moon in the classical scheme — a water sign read through a mutable season.

Closer to the ground

Closer in, Mercury stands at 15.0° Aquarius; Venus stands at 4.4° Aquarius; Mars stands at 11.7° Libra. The tradition reads a mind at home in argument and pattern from Mercury, taste led by wit and proportion from Venus, drive that argues its way forward from Mars.

The angles that hold

Jupiter and Pluto hold the closest angle here — a square, 0.0° wide. The old texts treat a square as the aspect you feel earliest and thank latest: obstruction first, competence afterwards. Behind it, Mars square Neptune at 2.5°, and the Sun sextile Neptune at 2.7° — 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.

The standing structure

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, two sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Mars in Libra at 11.7° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Cancer at 1.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives air 3, earth 3, water 2, fire 1, and cardinal 5, fixed 3, mutable 1 across the modes. Air weights a chart toward language and pattern — the impulse to name a thing before deciding how to feel about it. Mars was retrograde — the backward drift a body appears to make as the Earth overtakes it, read in the scheme as a function that reviews before it releases.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Pisces into Aries during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.3° between one midnight and the next. Without a recorded hour there is no honest way to say which side it was on, so this reading does not say. The Moon sign is a real question here, not a rounding error, and it needs a birth time nobody has published.

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

Source article: Bedřich Smetana · revision 1365685378
Wikidata: Q48173 · revision 2518145583
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1824-03-02 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Litomyšl, Czech Republic · Q722732
Coordinates: 49.8721, 16.3106 · from Litomyšl
Reference instant: 1824-03-02T11:02:16.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.30° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Pisces into Aries during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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