People · sourced chart
Edith Clarke
Engineer and university teacher · United States · 1883–1959
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Pisces into Aries during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
The Sun and Jupiter sit 0.3° from an exact trine — near enough that the tradition reads identity and expansion as a single working part. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Baltimore—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
Aquarius, but precisely: 21.7°, third decan, 20°–30°, under Venus in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.
Closer to the ground
The personal planets sit Mercury at 11.5° Aquarius, Venus at 5.0° Capricorn, Mars at 6.0° Aquarius. Mercury in a air sign reads as a mind at home in argument and pattern; Venus in a earth sign reads as taste for the substantial and the lasting; Mars in a air sign reads as drive that argues its way forward.
The angles that hold
The Sun to Jupiter is the closest call of the day, a trine within 0.3°. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, Jupiter square Uranus at 1.1°, and the Sun square Saturn at 2.0° — 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
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
The classical table has two entries for this chart. The Sun in Aquarius at 21.7° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Gemini at 21.4° is in detriment. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.
The shape of the whole
Counting only the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 5 earth, 4 air by element and 6 fixed, 2 mutable, 1 cardinal by modality. No settled placement falls in fire or water — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus 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 is genuinely open
The Moon crossed from Pisces into Aries during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.8° 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
- Edith Clarke · revision 1360304380
- Wikidata
- Q21826 · revision 2517755180
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1883-02-10 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Baltimore, United States · Q5092
- Coordinates
- 39.2864, -76.6150 · from Baltimore
- Reference instant
- 1883-02-10T16:56:02.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 14.77° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Pisces into Aries during that day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · no image claim on the Wikidata entity
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