Billie Holiday

Actor and songwriter · United States · 1915–1959

Aries 16.8° · born April 7, 1915
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Capricorn into Aquarius 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 stand in Pisces — Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. 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 Philadelphia—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 16.8° into Aries — the second decan, which the old scheme hands to the Sun. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

The personal registers

Mercury holds 25.0° Pisces, Venus holds 7.1° Pisces, Mars holds 22.9° Pisces — in the old shorthand, thought steeped in tone and memory; attraction that works by atmosphere; effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

Mercury and Saturn hold the closest angle here — a square, 1.9° wide. The old texts treat a square as the aspect you feel earliest and thank latest: obstruction first, competence afterwards. Behind it, the Sun sextile Uranus at 1.9°, and Mercury conjunction Mars at 2.1° — 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

Venus 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 Aries at 16.8° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mercury in Pisces at 25.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Pisces at 7.1° is in exaltation; Jupiter in Pisces at 14.8° 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 6 water, 2 air, 1 fire; by modality, 5 mutable, 3 cardinal, 1 fixed. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Neptune 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 Capricorn into Aquarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.5° 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: Billie Holiday · revision 1361423730
Wikidata: Q104358 · revision 2518913799
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1915-04-07 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Philadelphia, United States · Q1345
Coordinates: 39.9528, -75.1636 · from Philadelphia
Reference instant: 1915-04-07T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.46° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Capricorn into Aquarius during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: William P. Gottlieb · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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