Edith Stein

Translator and university teacher · Poland · 1891–1942

Libra 18.8° · born October 12, 1891
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, Mars holds a conjunction to Saturn at 0.0° — close enough to weld drive to structure. When two functions occupy one degree, the tradition reads a fusion: neither can act without committing the other.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Wrocław—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 18.8° into Libra — the second decan, which the old scheme hands to Saturn. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Libra (7.8°), Venus in Libra (25.1°), Mars in Virgo (24.0°): thought that travels by comparison, attraction that begins as conversation, effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

Mars and Saturn hold the closest angle here — a conjunction, 0.0° wide. When two functions occupy one degree, the tradition reads a fusion: neither can act without committing the other. Behind it, Jupiter square Neptune at 0.1°, and Neptune conjunction Pluto at 0.2° — 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

the Moon, Mercury, Pluto close a triangle of trines. Three trines close into a circuit the tradition calls a grand trine — ease so complete it can idle unnoticed for years.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. The Sun in Libra at 18.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Libra at 25.1° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Pisces at 9.0° is in domicile. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements air 6, earth 2, water 2; modalities mutable 5, cardinal 3, fixed 2. An air-weighted chart thinks in through-lines; the sentence is how it takes hold of the world. No settled placement falls in fire — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Jupiter, 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 Aquarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.0° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 7.7°.

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

Source article: Edith Stein · revision 1365603566
Wikidata: Q76749 · revision 2519919234
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1891-10-12 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Wrocław, Poland · Q1799
Coordinates: 51.1100, 17.0325 · from Wrocław
Reference instant: 1891-10-12T10:36:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.03° · The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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