Camille Saint-Saëns

Composer · France · 1835–1921

Libra 15.5° · born October 9, 1835
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 16.4° Taurus, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in 11th arrondissement of Paris—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

15.5° 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

The personal planets sit Mercury at 9.2° Scorpio, Venus at 16.6° Libra, Mars at 5.9° Scorpio. Mercury in a water sign reads as thought steeped in tone and memory; Venus in a air sign reads as attraction that begins as conversation; Mars in a water sign reads as effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

The Sun and Jupiter hold the closest angle here — a square, 0.6° wide. Nothing in a square flows; everything in it works. The old texts kept squares for the charts they respected. Behind it, Jupiter square Pluto at 1.1°, and the Sun conjunction Venus at 1.2° — 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.

Figures in the geometry

The Sun opposes Pluto while both square Jupiter. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet. 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 dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks six placements here. The Sun in Libra at 15.5° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; the Moon in Taurus at 16.4° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Libra at 16.6° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Scorpio at 5.9° is in domicile; Jupiter in Cancer at 14.9° is in exaltation; Saturn in Libra at 24.8° is in exaltation. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 5 air, 3 water, 1 earth, 1 fire by element and 5 cardinal, 5 fixed by modality. An air emphasis is read as distance for the sake of clarity: the idea gets examined before it gets adopted. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Taurus for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 16.4°.

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

Source article: Camille Saint-Saëns · revision 1362825622
Wikidata: Q150445 · revision 2518189631
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1835-10-09 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: 11th arrondissement of Paris, France · Q169293
Coordinates: 48.8587, 2.3793 · from 11th arrondissement of Paris
Reference instant: 1835-10-09T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.89° · The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Agence de presse Meurisse · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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