Ben Enwonwu

Painter · Nigeria · 1921–1994

Cancer 21.4° · born July 14, 1921
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Cancer — the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto. The placements whose signs could change with an unknown hour are not counted. A cluster that size becomes the section the rest of the chart plays around.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Onitsha—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 21.4° Cancer. That falls in the third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Jupiter in the classical scheme — a water sign read through a cardinal season.

The fast planets

Closer in, Mercury stands at 12.1° Cancer; Venus stands at 6.3° Gemini; Mars stands at 17.0° Cancer. The tradition reads a mind that absorbs before it argues from Mercury, taste led by wit and proportion from Venus, drive that moves on certainty and current from Mars.

The angles that hold

Uranus and Pluto hold the closest angle here — a trine, 0.5° wide. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, the Sun sextile Saturn at 1.1°, and Mars sextile Jupiter at 1.7° — 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

Neptune stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.

The classical map

Three planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Moon in Scorpio at 18.9° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Cancer at 17.0° is in fall; Jupiter in Virgo at 15.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements water 6, earth 2, air 1, fire 1; modalities cardinal 4, mutable 4, fixed 2. Mercury and Uranus were 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Scorpio for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.7° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 18.9°.

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

Source article: Ben Enwonwu · revision 1357922901
Wikidata: Q4885605 · revision 2506267037
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1921-07-14 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Onitsha, Nigeria · Q852238
Coordinates: 6.1330, 6.7924 · from Onitsha
Reference instant: 1921-07-14T11:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.69° · The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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