Clara Haskil

Pianist · Romania · 1895–1960

Capricorn 16.9° · born January 7, 1895
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Three of the nine placements whose signs are settled fall in cardinal signs, the widest weighting the unknown hour leaves certain. The cardinal signs begin things; a chart weighted there treats every stall as a starting gun.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At the noon reference the Sun sits 16.9° into Capricorn — the second decan, which the old scheme hands to Venus. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

The fast planets

The personal planets sit Mercury at 15.3° Capricorn, Venus at 26.0° Capricorn, Mars at 2.9° Taurus. Mercury in a earth sign reads as thought with its feet on the ground; Venus in a earth sign reads as attraction that grows by reliability; Mars in a earth sign reads as effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — the Sun conjunction Mercury, 1.7° of separation. A conjunction is the least negotiable aspect in the scheme — no distance to argue across, so the pair arrives as a single instinct. Behind it, the Sun sextile Uranus at 2.0°, and Mars opposition Saturn at 3.1° — 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.

What the angles build

No closed figure — no grand trine, t-square, or grand cross — holds among the day-stable angles. The chart distributes its tension pair by pair rather than through one standing structure.

The classical map

The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks two placements here. Mars in Taurus at 2.9° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Gemini at 29.2° is in detriment. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 earth, 3 air, 2 water by element and 3 cardinal, 3 fixed, 3 mutable by modality. Earth signs hold the scheme’s slow end, where results are measured in what survives rather than what starts. No settled placement falls in fire — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the backward drift a body appears to make as the Earth overtakes it, read in the scheme as a function that reviews before it releases.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.8° 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: Clara Haskil · revision 1331661474
Wikidata: Q123463 · revision 2519849401
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1895-01-07 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania · Q19660
Coordinates: 44.4134, 26.0978 · from Bucharest
Reference instant: 1895-01-07T10:15:36.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.81° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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