Bruno Schulz

Writer and painter · Ukraine · 1892–1942

Cancer 20.4° · born July 12, 1892
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Aquarius 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 fall in fixed signs, the widest weighting the unknown hour leaves certain. Fixed signs hold the middle of their seasons, and a fixed-heavy chart is read as one that consolidates and does not easily let go.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Drohobych—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 20.4° Cancer, inside the third decan (20°–30°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Jupiter. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

Closer to the ground

Closer in, Mercury stands at 11.8° Leo; Venus stands at 16.3° Cancer; Mars stands at 16.9° Aquarius. The tradition reads thought that arrives already in motion from Mercury, attraction that works by atmosphere from Venus, effort aimed through strategy and words from Mars.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Neptune and Pluto: 1.0° from an exact conjunction. The tradition stops reading a conjunction as two things. It is one appetite with two names, and it moves together or not at all. Behind it, Mercury sextile Neptune at 1.6°, and Mercury sextile Pluto at 2.6° — 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

Saturn 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 has nothing to say about this chart. All seven classical planets sit in signs it treats as neutral, so the reading rests entirely on placement and angle.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 air, 3 water, 2 fire, 1 earth by element and 4 fixed, 3 cardinal, 3 mutable by modality. Air signs carry exchange in the scheme — comparison, argument, the sentence that makes the situation legible. Venus and Mars 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Aquarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.7° 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 19.7°.

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

Source article: Bruno Schulz · revision 1365726135
Wikidata: Q148886 · revision 2521308943
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1892-07-12 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Drohobych, Ukraine · Q158821
Coordinates: 49.3500, 23.5000 · from Drohobych
Reference instant: 1892-07-12T09:57:56.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.71° · The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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