Edgar Allan Poe

Poet · United States · 1809–1849

Capricorn 29.3° · born January 19, 1809
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day. Mercury crossed from Capricorn into Aquarius during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Four of the nine placements whose signs are settled stand in Pisces — the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Pluto. 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 Boston—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's exact place is 29.3° Capricorn. That falls in the third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Mercury in the classical scheme — a earth sign read through a cardinal season.

The fast planets

Closer in, Venus stands at 9.7° Pisces; Mars stands at 18.8° Libra. The tradition reads taste tuned to mood and undertow from Venus, drive that argues its way forward from Mars.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins the Sun and Mercury — a conjunction holding at 0.1°. When two functions occupy one degree, the tradition reads a fusion: neither can act without committing the other. Behind it, Venus trine Uranus at 0.3°, and Mercury sextile Saturn at 2.2° — 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.

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

The classical table has three entries for this chart. Venus in Pisces at 9.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mars in Libra at 18.8° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Pisces at 16.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 5 in water, 2 in fire, 1 in earth, 1 in air by element, 6 mutable, 2 cardinal, 1 fixed by modality. Water weights a chart toward the felt and the remembered — information that arrives as atmosphere before it arrives as words. Mercury crossed from Capricorn into Aquarius during that day, so its sign is left open. Not one planet was retrograde, so the whole chart reads in direct motion.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Pisces for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.0° between midnight and midnight. The sign survives the missing hour; the degree does not, and is given as a reference rather than a fact. At the noon reference it stands at 15.7°.

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Source article: Edgar Allan Poe · revision 1365306152
Wikidata: Q16867 · revision 2522910592
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1809-01-19 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Boston, United States · Q100
Coordinates: 42.3603, -71.0578 · from Boston
Reference instant: 1809-01-19T16:56:02.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.98° · The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day.
Open signs: Mercury crossed from Capricorn into Aquarius during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown authorUnknown author; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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