People · sourced chart
Edgar Degas
Painter and poet · France · 1834–1917
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Capricorn throughout that civil day. Venus crossed from Leo into Virgo during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
Cardinal signs carry four of the nine placements whose signs are settled — the broadest certain weighting in the chart. The cardinal signs begin things; a chart weighted there treats every stall as a starting gun.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Paris—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
At the noon reference the Sun sits 26.3° into Cancer — the third decan, which the old scheme hands to Jupiter. Same sign, different decan, different chart.
The fast planets
The personal planets sit Mercury at 18.7° Leo, Mars at 22.1° Taurus. Mercury in a fire sign reads as thought that arrives already in motion; Mars in a earth sign reads as effort banked steadily until it tells.
The angles that hold
Start where the chart is tightest — Jupiter trine Saturn, 1.4° of separation. A trine is an open channel. The two cooperate without being asked, which is exactly why it is easy to spend and easy to take for granted. Behind it, Mercury square Mars at 3.4°, and Mars square Uranus at 3.6° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.
The standing structure
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune 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. Mercury opposes Uranus while both square Mars. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet.
The classical map
The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks four placements here. The Moon in Capricorn at 10.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Taurus at 22.1° is in detriment; Jupiter in Gemini at 4.0° is in detriment; Saturn in Libra at 5.5° 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
Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in air, 2 in earth, 2 in fire, 1 in water by element, 4 cardinal, 4 fixed, 1 mutable by modality. An air-weighted chart thinks in through-lines; the sentence is how it takes hold of the world. Venus crossed from Leo into Virgo during that day, so its sign is left open. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the backward drift a body appears to make as the Earth overtakes it, read in the scheme as a function that reviews before it releases.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Capricorn for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.3° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 10.3°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Edgar Degas · revision 1365633387
- Wikidata
- Q46373 · revision 2522285623
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1834-07-19 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Paris, France · Q90
- Coordinates
- 48.8567, 2.3522 · from Paris
- Reference instant
- 1834-07-19T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 13.25° · The Moon remained in Capricorn throughout that civil day.
- Open signs
- Venus crossed from Leo into Virgo during that day, so its sign is left open.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · the recorded creator is the subject ("Edgar Degas"), so the licence holder of this reproduction cannot be credited accurately without separate review
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