Bhimsen Joshi

Actor and composer · India · 1922–2011

Aquarius 14.7° · born February 4, 1922
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, the Sun holds a opposition to Neptune at 0.1° — close enough to weld identity to imagination. An opposition puts two needs on opposite shores of the same water. Neither drowns; neither gets the whole beach.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At the noon reference the Sun sits 14.7° into Aquarius — the second decan, which the old scheme hands to Mercury. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

The fast planets

Mercury holds 1.1° Pisces, Venus holds 13.5° Aquarius, Mars holds 22.5° Scorpio — in the old shorthand, thought steeped in tone and memory; attraction that begins as conversation; effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

The Sun to Neptune is the closest call of the day, a opposition within 0.1°. Across the wheel, each body sees the other in full. The old reading is not conflict so much as permanent mutual visibility. Behind it, Uranus trine Pluto at 0.1°, and Saturn square Pluto at 1.0° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

What the angles build

The Moon 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 four placements here. The Sun in Aquarius at 14.7° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mercury in Pisces at 1.1° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Scorpio at 22.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Libra at 7.3° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 air, 4 water, 1 fire by element and 4 fixed, 3 cardinal, 2 mutable by mode. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Jupiter, Saturn, 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 is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus 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: Bhimsen Joshi · revision 1365925599
Wikidata: Q121077 · revision 2492270729
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1922-02-04 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Ron, India · Q2624337
Coordinates: 15.6700, 75.7300 · from Ron
Reference instant: 1922-02-04T06:30:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.32° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Bhaskar Bhatt Joshi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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