Candido Portinari

Painter · Brazil · 1903–1962

Capricorn 6.7° · born December 29, 1903
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Across the nine placements whose signs are settled, cardinal leads with three. Cardinal weight is read as initiative: the instinct to be the reason something began.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Measured rather than labelled, the Sun holds 6.7° Capricorn: the first decan, whose classical sub-ruler is Saturn. A earth sign, read here in its first face.

The personal registers

Closer in, Mercury stands at 25.9° Capricorn; Venus stands at 22.4° Scorpio; Mars stands at 13.5° Aquarius. The tradition reads a mind that trusts the measured and the checked from Mercury, taste tuned to mood and undertow from Venus, drive that argues its way forward from Mars.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Jupiter and Pluto — a square holding at 2.0°. A square is friction that produces motion — the aspect the tradition credits with building capability precisely by refusing to be comfortable. Behind it, the Sun opposition Neptune at 2.3°, and Mercury sextile Venus at 3.5° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

Figures in the geometry

The day-stable angles form no closed figure. Nothing funnels; each aspect is its own negotiation, which the tradition reads as a chart of separate treaties rather than one campaign.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, three sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Venus in Scorpio at 22.4° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Pisces at 17.4° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Aquarius at 7.7° is in domicile. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements water 3, air 3, earth 2, fire 1; modalities cardinal 3, fixed 3, mutable 3. 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 Aries into Taurus during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.1° between one midnight and the next. The hour would decide it; no hour was recorded. The reading keeps the question open rather than flipping a coin dressed as astrology.

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

Source article: Candido Portinari · revision 1365306504
Wikidata: Q319532 · revision 2520694414
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1903-12-29 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Brodowski, Brazil · Q924792
Coordinates: -20.9908, -47.6589 · from Brodowski
Reference instant: 1903-12-29T15:06:28.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.12° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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