People · sourced chart
Diane Arbus
Photographer · United States · 1923–1971
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
Count only what the day settles, and water still carries five of the ten placements whose signs are settled. Water signs hold memory in the scheme, where nothing is quite finished and little is genuinely forgotten.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in New York City—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
Pisces, but precisely: 23.1°, third decan, 20°–30°, under Mars in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.
The personal registers
Mercury holds 2.5° Pisces, Venus holds 9.7° Aquarius, Mars holds 7.5° Taurus — in the old shorthand, a mind that absorbs before it argues; taste led by wit and proportion; drive that grinds rather than flares.
The angles that hold
The day's firmest angle joins Mars and Pluto — a sextile holding at 1.6°. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it. Behind it, Venus square Mars at 2.1°, and Saturn sextile Neptune at 2.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.
What the angles build
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
Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, three sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Mercury in Pisces at 2.5° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Taurus at 7.5° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Libra at 18.5° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.
The shape of the whole
Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements water 5, air 3, earth 1, fire 1; modalities fixed 5, mutable 3, cardinal 2. A water emphasis keeps long books: little is forgotten, and nothing is felt only once. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were 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 Aquarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.3° 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 21.8°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Diane Arbus · revision 1358798934
- Wikidata
- Q234608 · revision 2519391465
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1923-03-14 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- New York City, United States · Q60
- Coordinates
- 40.7128, -74.0061 · from New York City
- Reference instant
- 1923-03-14T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 12.28° · The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · no image claim on the Wikidata entity
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