Dolores del Río

Actor and singer · Mexico · 1904–1983

Leo 10.9° · born August 3, 1904
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 10.9° Leo, 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 Victoria de Durango—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

Leo, but precisely: 10.9°, second decan, 10°–20°, under Jupiter in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 3.4° Virgo, Venus was at 18.3° Leo, Mars was at 22.6° Cancer. Read together: a mind that trusts the measured and the checked; taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate; drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — Venus opposition Saturn, 0.1° of separation. The scheme reads an opposition as a axis to walk, not a fight to win: the chart keeps both ends lit. Behind it, Venus sextile Pluto at 3.0°, and Saturn trine Pluto at 3.1° — 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.

What the angles build

Mars 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, four sit in a sign it has an opinion about. The Sun in Leo at 10.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mercury in Virgo at 3.4° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mars in Cancer at 22.6° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Saturn in Aquarius at 18.2° is in domicile. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives fire 4, water 2, air 2, earth 1, and fixed 3, mutable 3, cardinal 3 across the modes. Fire weights a chart toward initiative — starting, asserting, spending energy to find out what happens. Saturn and Uranus were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.2° between one midnight and the next. A birth time would settle it in a second; there isn’t one. So the Moon stays unnamed here — the alternative is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.

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

Source article: Dolores del Río · revision 1364540266
Wikidata: Q124057 · revision 2510419302
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1904-08-03 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Victoria de Durango, Mexico · Q112813
Coordinates: 24.0228, -104.6544 · from Victoria de Durango
Reference instant: 1904-08-03T18:41:16.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.23° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: RKO Pictures · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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