David Unaipon

Inventor and writer · Australia · 1872–1967

Libra 5.3° · born September 28, 1872
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Leo — the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus. The placements whose signs could change with an unknown hour are not counted. A cluster that size becomes the section the rest of the chart plays around.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Libra, but precisely: 5.3°, first decan, 0°–10°, under Venus in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The fast planets

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Virgo (23.5°), Venus in Libra (25.2°), Mars in Leo (25.4°): a mind that trusts the measured and the checked, taste led by wit and proportion, drive that ignites on contact.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Mars a third of the circle apart from Neptune, 0.1° off exact. The scheme reads trines as water finding its level: effortless, and invisible to the person living it. Behind it, Venus sextile Mars at 0.2°, and the Sun sextile Uranus at 0.2° — 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

Four planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Sun in Libra at 5.3° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mercury in Virgo at 23.5° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Libra at 25.2° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Capricorn at 14.7° is in domicile. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 5 in fire, 3 in earth, 2 in air by element, 5 fixed, 4 cardinal, 1 mutable by modality. No settled placement falls in water — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Leo for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° between midnight and midnight. Whatever the unrecorded hour was, it happened inside one Moon sign — the degree floats, the sign holds. At the noon reference it stands at 14.0°.

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

Source article: David Unaipon · revision 1366071663
Wikidata: Q939297 · revision 2521386838
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T19:05:54.525Z
Birth date: 1872-09-28 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Raukkan, Australia · Q19877475
Coordinates: -35.5060, 139.1350 · from Raukkan
Reference instant: 1872-09-28T02:45:40.000Z · 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 Leo throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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