David Alfaro Siqueiros

Painter and university teacher · Mexico · 1896–1974

Capricorn 8.6° · born December 29, 1896
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

Across the ten placements whose signs are settled, fixed leads with four. Fixed signs hold the middle of their seasons, and a fixed-heavy chart is read as one that consolidates and does not easily let go.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Capricorn, but precisely: 8.6°, first decan, 0°–10°, under Saturn in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 25.6° Capricorn, Venus was at 20.3° Aquarius, Mars was at 13.6° Gemini. Read together: a mind that trusts the measured and the checked; taste led by wit and proportion; drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

Saturn to Uranus is the closest call of the day, a conjunction within 0.3°. A conjunction concentrates rather than balances — the pair burns one fuel line. Behind it, Mercury sextile Saturn at 1.4°, and Mars conjunction Pluto at 1.4° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.

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

Two planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Moon in Scorpio at 8.9° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Virgo at 10.2° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 air, 3 earth, 3 water by element and 4 fixed, 4 mutable, 2 cardinal by mode. An air-weighted chart thinks in through-lines; the sentence is how it takes hold of the world. No settled placement falls in fire — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mars, Jupiter, Neptune 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 Scorpio for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.4° 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 8.9°.

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

Source article: David Alfaro Siqueiros · revision 1358652627
Wikidata: Q315647 · revision 2521417066
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1896-12-29 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Chihuahua City, Mexico · Q61302
Coordinates: 28.6369, -106.0769 · from Chihuahua City
Reference instant: 1896-12-29T19:04:20.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.44° · The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Galería Fundación Héctor García · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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