Bob Marley

Singer-songwriter · Jamaica · 1945–1981

Aquarius 17.6° · born February 6, 1945
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

0.1° separates Venus and Saturn from an exact square; at that range taste and structure read as one mechanism. The old texts treat a square as the aspect you feel earliest and thank latest: obstruction first, competence afterwards.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At noon on that date the Sun stood at 17.6° Aquarius, inside the second decan (10°–20°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Mercury. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

The personal registers

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Aquarius (2.0°), Venus in Aries (4.4°), Mars in Capricorn (24.1°): thought that travels by comparison, attraction declared rather than implied, effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Venus to Saturn, a square with 0.1° of slack. Nothing in a square flows; everything in it works. The old texts kept squares for the charts they respected. Behind it, Uranus sextile Pluto at 0.2°, and Saturn square Neptune at 1.7° — 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.

The standing structure

Venus opposes Neptune while both square Saturn. The t-square is the figure the old texts trusted for output: friction with a fixed address.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, five placements stand out. The Sun in Aquarius at 17.6° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Venus in Aries at 4.4° is in detriment; Mars in Capricorn at 24.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Jupiter in Virgo at 26.5° is in detriment; Saturn in Cancer at 4.5° is in detriment. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 air, 2 fire, 2 earth, 1 water by element and 4 cardinal, 3 fixed, 2 mutable by modality. Air runs on comparison and connection — the pattern noticed first, the feeling filed second. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.4° 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: Bob Marley · revision 1365949227
Wikidata: Q409 · revision 2520549043
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1945-02-06 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Nine Mile, Jamaica · Q1799655
Coordinates: 18.2978, -77.2781 · from Nine Mile
Reference instant: 1945-02-06T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.40° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Dennis Morris; Distributed by Island Records · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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