Berthe Morisot

Painter · France · 1841–1895

Capricorn 24.2° · born January 14, 1841
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Four of the nine placements whose signs are settled fall in cardinal signs, the widest weighting the unknown hour leaves certain. Cardinal weight is read as initiative: the instinct to be the reason something began.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 24.2° Capricorn — deep enough in the third decan (20°–30°) that Mercury, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

The fast planets

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Capricorn (10.6°), Venus in Pisces (5.5°), Mars in Libra (21.7°): thought with its feet on the ground, attraction that works by atmosphere, effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

The Sun and Mars hold the closest angle here — a square, 2.5° wide. A square is the tradition’s engine room: two drives at cross purposes, and the friction is the horsepower. Behind it, Jupiter sextile Neptune at 2.8°, and Mars opposition Pluto at 3.8° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

Figures in the geometry

Mars opposes Pluto while both square the Sun. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet. Mercury 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. Venus in Pisces at 5.5° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mars in Libra at 21.7° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 10.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Among the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 3 fire, 2 earth, 2 water, 2 air; by modality, 4 cardinal, 4 mutable, 1 fixed. Fire weights a chart toward initiative — starting, asserting, spending energy to find out what happens. Nothing was retrograde that day, which is less common than it sounds.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.7° between one midnight and the next. A birth time would settle it in a second; there isn’t one. So the Moon stays unnamed here — the alternative is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.

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

Source article: Berthe Morisot · revision 1355897938
Wikidata: Q105320 · revision 2517940023
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1841-01-14 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Bourges, France · Q132404
Coordinates: 47.0836, 2.3956 · from Bourges
Reference instant: 1841-01-14T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.66° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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