Édith Piaf

Singer and actor · France · 1915–1963

Sagittarius 26.5° · born December 19, 1915
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Venus and Jupiter sit 0.3° from an exact sextile — near enough that the tradition reads taste and expansion as a single working part. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it.

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

The Sun's exact place is 26.5° Sagittarius. That falls in the third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by the Sun in the classical scheme — a fire sign read through a mutable season.

The personal registers

Closer in, Mercury stands at 28.5° Sagittarius; Venus stands at 20.9° Capricorn; Mars stands at 28.9° Leo. The tradition reads a mind that decides at speaking speed from Mercury, taste for the substantial and the lasting from Venus, drive that ignites on contact from Mars.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Venus and Jupiter — a sextile holding at 0.3°. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it. Behind it, Mercury trine Mars at 0.4°, and the Sun conjunction Mercury at 1.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

Figures in the geometry

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 three entries for this chart. Mercury in Sagittarius at 28.5° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Pisces at 20.6° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Cancer at 14.3° is in detriment. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 fire, 3 water, 1 earth, 1 air by element and 3 mutable, 3 cardinal, 3 fixed by mode. A fire emphasis is read as appetite for the first move, with information gathered by doing rather than before doing. Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day at the birthplace, travelling 11.9° between one midnight and the next. The hour would decide it; no hour was recorded. The reading keeps the question open rather than flipping a coin dressed as astrology.

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

Source article: Édith Piaf · revision 1365684116
Wikidata: Q1631 · revision 2522755228
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1915-12-19 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Paris, France · Q90
Coordinates: 48.8567, 2.3522 · from Paris
Reference instant: 1915-12-19T12:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.89° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Studio Harcourt · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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