Bruce Lee

Film director and writer · United States · 1940–1973

Sagittarius 5.5° · born November 27, 1940
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 Scorpio — the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars. 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 San Francisco Chinese Hospital—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 5.5° into Sagittarius — the first decan, which the old scheme hands to Jupiter. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

Closer to the ground

The personal planets sit Mercury at 15.4° Scorpio, Venus at 1.6° Scorpio, Mars at 4.7° Scorpio. Mercury in a water sign reads as thought steeped in tone and memory; Venus in a water sign reads as attraction that works by atmosphere; Mars in a water sign reads as effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Mars and Pluto — a square holding at 0.5°. Right angles are where the scheme puts its grit. A square asks two functions to work in a mode neither would have chosen. Behind it, the Sun trine Pluto at 1.2°, and Jupiter conjunction Saturn at 2.0° — 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

Venus opposes Jupiter while both square Pluto. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. The Moon in Scorpio at 14.4° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Scorpio at 1.6° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Scorpio at 4.7° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 water, 4 earth, 2 fire; by modality, 8 fixed, 2 mutable. Water weights a chart toward the felt and the remembered — information that arrives as atmosphere before it arrives as words. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto 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 14.8° 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 14.4°.

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

Source article: Bruce Lee · revision 1365168034
Wikidata: Q16397 · revision 2522517521
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1940-11-27 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: San Francisco Chinese Hospital, United States · Q7413971
Coordinates: 37.7956, -122.4092 · from San Francisco Chinese Hospital
Reference instant: 1940-11-27T20:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.84° · The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: National General Pictures · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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