Buster Keaton

Comedian and writer · United States · 1895–1966

Libra 11.3° · born October 4, 1895
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Aries throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, Mercury holds a conjunction to Saturn at 0.0° — close enough to weld thinking to structure. A conjunction concentrates rather than balances — the pair burns one fuel line.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

11.3° of Libra is the Sun's exact seat — second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Saturn in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Scorpio (6.6°), Venus in Virgo (18.6°), Mars in Libra (13.4°): thought steeped in tone and memory, attraction that grows by reliability, effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Mercury to Saturn, a conjunction with 0.0° of slack. A conjunction is the least negotiable aspect in the scheme — no distance to argue across, so the pair arrives as a single instinct. Behind it, Venus square Neptune at 0.6°, and Venus sextile Uranus at 0.7° — 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.

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 oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags three placements in this chart. The Sun in Libra at 11.3° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Virgo at 18.6° is in fall; Mars in Libra at 13.4° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements air 4, water 3, fire 2, earth 1; modalities fixed 4, cardinal 3, mutable 3. Venus, 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Aries for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.1° between midnight and midnight. The sign survives the missing hour; the degree does not, and is given as a reference rather than a fact. At the noon reference it stands at 20.1°.

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

Source article: Buster Keaton · revision 1366029278
Wikidata: Q103949 · revision 2522610094
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1895-10-04 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Piqua, United States · Q2038259
Coordinates: 37.9228, -95.5353 · from Piqua
Reference instant: 1895-10-04T18:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.13° · The Moon remained in Aries throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Bain News Service · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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