Desmond Tutu

Human rights defender · South Africa · 1931–2021

Libra 13.2° · born October 7, 1931
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

Cardinal signs carry six of the ten placements whose signs are settled — the broadest certain weighting in the chart. The four cardinal signs sit at the solstices and equinoxes — the scheme’s ignition points, and this chart is weighted to them.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Munsieville—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 13.2° Libra — 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 Libra and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 4.7° Libra, Venus was at 21.0° Libra, Mars was at 13.7° Scorpio. Read together: a mind at home in argument and pattern; taste led by wit and proportion; drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Jupiter and Uranus: 0.7° from an exact trine. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned. Behind it, Saturn square Uranus at 0.7°, and Venus square Pluto at 1.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These angles were checked through every hour of that civil day and survive throughout, which is why an unrecorded hour does not disturb them.

Figures in the geometry

The Sun opposes Uranus while both square Saturn. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment. Neptune 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

The classical table has four entries for this chart. The Sun in Libra at 13.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Libra at 21.0° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Scorpio at 13.7° is in domicile; Saturn in Capricorn at 16.9° is in domicile. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 3 air, 3 fire, 2 water, 2 earth by element and 6 cardinal, 3 fixed, 1 mutable by modality. Air runs on comparison and connection — the pattern noticed first, the feeling filed second. Uranus was retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Leo for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.2° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 15.8°.

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

Source article: Desmond Tutu · revision 1365121363
Wikidata: Q43033 · revision 2522118741
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1931-10-07 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Munsieville, South Africa · Q6936880
Coordinates: -26.0750, 27.7530 · from Munsieville
Reference instant: 1931-10-07T10:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.22° · The Moon remained in Leo throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Benny Gool · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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