C. V. Raman

Physicist and university teacher · India · 1888–1970

Scorpio 15.3° · born November 7, 1888
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn 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 fall in mutable signs, the widest weighting the unknown hour leaves certain. The mutable signs hand one season to the next; a chart weighted there is built for transitions.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

15.3° of Scorpio is the Sun's exact seat — second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Jupiter in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

The fast planets

Closer in, Mercury stands at 2.6° Scorpio; Venus stands at 16.0° Sagittarius; Mars stands at 11.1° Capricorn. The tradition reads thought steeped in tone and memory from Mercury, attraction declared rather than implied from Venus, effort banked steadily until it tells from Mars.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Saturn and Uranus — a sextile holding at 0.5°. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted. Behind it, Venus sextile Uranus at 3.3°, and Venus trine Saturn at 3.8° — 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.

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

Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. Mars in Capricorn at 11.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 10.3° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Leo at 19.8° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements fire 3, air 3, water 2, earth 1; modalities mutable 4, fixed 3, cardinal 2. Mercury, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.6° between one midnight and the next. Half the day belongs to each sign, and the split falls at an unrecorded hour — so this page holds the Moon as a genuine unknown.

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

Source article: C. V. Raman · revision 1366060846
Wikidata: Q60429 · revision 2522915052
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1888-11-07 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Tiruchirappalli, India · Q207754
Coordinates: 10.8269, 78.6928 · from Tiruchirappalli
Reference instant: 1888-11-07T06:38:50.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.63° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Nobel Foundation · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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