Cesária Évora

Singer · Cape Verde · 1941–2011

Virgo 3.9° · born August 27, 1941
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Mutable signs carry five of the ten placements whose signs are settled — the broadest certain weighting in the chart. Mutable signs end their seasons, and a mutable-heavy chart is read as one built for adaptation and hand-off rather than for standing still.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

3.9° of Virgo is the Sun's exact seat — first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by Mercury 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 12.1° Virgo, Venus at 7.9° Libra, Mars at 23.0° Aries. Mercury in a earth sign reads as thought with its feet on the ground; Venus in a air sign reads as attraction that begins as conversation; Mars in a fire sign reads as effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

Saturn to Neptune is the closest call of the day, a trine within 1.8°. A trine is an open channel. The two cooperate without being asked, which is exactly why it is easy to spend and easy to take for granted. Behind it, Saturn conjunction Uranus at 1.9°, and Venus sextile Pluto at 3.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.

Figures in the geometry

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 five placements in this chart. The Moon in Scorpio at 7.3° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mercury in Virgo at 12.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Libra at 7.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Aries at 23.0° is in domicile; Jupiter in Gemini at 18.5° 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

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 earth, 3 air, 2 fire, 1 water by element and 5 mutable, 3 fixed, 2 cardinal by mode. Earth weights a chart toward the material and the durable — what can be built, kept, and relied on. Every body was moving forward that day — no apparent reversals anywhere in the chart.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Scorpio for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.3° 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 7.3°.

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

Source article: Cesária Évora · revision 1365288920
Wikidata: Q103759 · revision 2521209412
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1941-08-27 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Mindelo, Cape Verde · Q495547
Coordinates: 16.8914, -24.9880 · from Mindelo
Reference instant: 1941-08-27T14:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.31° · The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: As fotos da Virada! · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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