Carl Sandburg

Poet and trade unionist · United States · 1878–1967

Capricorn 16.4° · born January 6, 1878
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

Mars and Jupiter sit 0.1° from an exact square — near enough that the tradition reads drive and expansion as a single working part. A square is friction that produces motion — the aspect the tradition credits with building capability precisely by refusing to be comfortable.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Capricorn, but precisely: 16.4°, second decan, 10°–20°, under Venus in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The fast planets

Closer in, Mercury stands at 25.7° Capricorn; Venus stands at 0.4° Pisces; Mars stands at 15.4° Aries. The tradition reads a mind that trusts the measured and the checked from Mercury, taste tuned to mood and undertow from Venus, drive that ignites on contact from Mars.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — Mars square Jupiter, 0.1° of separation. A square is friction that produces motion — the aspect the tradition credits with building capability precisely by refusing to be comfortable. Behind it, Jupiter sextile Saturn at 0.3°, and the Sun sextile Saturn at 0.6° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These angles were checked through every hour of that civil day and survive throughout, which is why an unrecorded hour does not disturb them.

Figures in the geometry

The Moon stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.

The classical map

Three planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. Venus in Pisces at 0.4° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mars in Aries at 15.4° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Capricorn at 15.5° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: earth 5, water 2, fire 2, air 1 across the elements, and cardinal 4, fixed 4, mutable 2 across the modalities. Mercury, 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 Aquarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 21.7°.

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

Source article: Carl Sandburg · revision 1365927149
Wikidata: Q193608 · revision 2515850355
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1878-01-06 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Galesburg, United States · Q782574
Coordinates: 40.9522, -90.3686 · from Galesburg
Reference instant: 1878-01-06T17:50:36.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.93° · The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Al Ravenna, World Telegram staff photographer · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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