Dorothy Dandridge

Television actor and singer · United States · 1922–1965

Scorpio 16.5° · born November 9, 1922
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 13.9° Cancer, 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 Cleveland—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

16.5° of Scorpio is the Sun's exact seat — second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Jupiter in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

Closer to the ground

Closer in, Mercury stands at 1.2° Scorpio; Venus stands at 9.3° Sagittarius; Mars stands at 7.0° Aquarius. The tradition reads thought steeped in tone and memory from Mercury, attraction declared rather than implied from Venus, effort aimed through strategy and words from Mars.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Venus and Uranus — a square holding at 0.4°. Nothing in a square flows; everything in it works. The old texts kept squares for the charts they respected. Behind it, Uranus trine Pluto at 1.4°, and the Sun square Neptune at 1.6° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

What the angles build

the Sun, Uranus, Pluto close a triangle of trines. A grand trine is read as self-sufficiency in one element: the current circulates whether or not anything is asked of it.

The classical map

The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags two placements in this chart. The Moon in Cancer at 13.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Libra at 15.0° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 6 water, 2 fire, 2 air; by modality, 5 fixed, 3 cardinal, 2 mutable. A water emphasis keeps long books: little is forgotten, and nothing is felt only once. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Venus, Uranus 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 Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.1° 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 13.9°.

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

Source article: Dorothy Dandridge · revision 1362881477
Wikidata: Q229251 · revision 2517447980
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1922-11-09 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Cleveland, United States · Q37320
Coordinates: 41.4992, -81.6947 · from Cleveland
Reference instant: 1922-11-09T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.14° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: MGM Television · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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