Clara Schumann

Pianist and composer · Germany · 1819–1896

Virgo 19.8° · born September 13, 1819
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 13.0° Cancer, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. 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 Leipzig—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun sits at 19.8° Virgo — the second decan, 10°–20°, which the tradition sub-rules by Saturn. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Virgo and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Neptune at right angles from Pluto, 0.8° off exact. The old texts treat a square as the aspect you feel earliest and thank latest: obstruction first, competence afterwards. Behind it, the Sun square Uranus at 0.8°, and Saturn conjunction Pluto at 1.2° — 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.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, four sit in a sign it has an opinion about. The Moon in Cancer at 13.0° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mercury in Virgo at 8.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Virgo at 12.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Cancer at 4.5° is in fall. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 water, 3 earth, 2 fire, 1 air; by modality, 7 mutable, 2 cardinal, 1 fixed. A water emphasis reads as porousness: the room is registered whole, long before it is analysed in parts. Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 13.0°.

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

Source article: Clara Schumann · revision 1361210480
Wikidata: Q132232 · revision 2522259792
Retrieved: 2026-07-25T17:05:12.504Z
Birth date: 1819-09-13 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Leipzig, Germany · Q2079
Coordinates: 51.3406, 12.3747 · from Leipzig
Reference instant: 1819-09-13T11:06:32.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.92° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Franz Hanfstaengl · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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