Charlie Chaplin

Film director and composer · United Kingdom · 1889–1977

Aries 26.7° · born April 16, 1889
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 26.7° Aries, 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 Walworth—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 26.7° Aries — deep enough in the third decan (20°–30°) that Jupiter, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Aries (17.1°), Venus in Taurus (18.2°), Mars in Taurus (13.3°): thought that arrives already in motion, attraction that grows by reliability, effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Mars and Saturn — a square holding at 0.1°. A square is the tradition’s engine room: two drives at cross purposes, and the friction is the horsepower. Behind it, Mercury opposition Uranus at 2.5°, and Mercury trine Saturn at 3.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

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 Sun in Aries at 26.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Taurus at 18.2° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Taurus at 13.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Capricorn at 8.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Saturn in Leo at 13.4° is in detriment. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 3 fire, 3 earth, 3 air by element and 4 cardinal, 3 fixed, 2 mutable by mode. No settled placement falls in water — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Venus and Uranus were retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.7° between one midnight and the next. A birth time would settle it in a second; there isn’t one. So the Moon stays unnamed here — the alternative is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.

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

Source article: Charlie Chaplin · revision 1363697909
Wikidata: Q882 · revision 2522762155
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1889-04-16 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Walworth, United Kingdom · Q1231883
Coordinates: 51.4898, -0.0905 · from Walworth
Reference instant: 1889-04-16T12:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.71° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Strauss-Peyton Studio · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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