Edmund Hillary

Explorer and autobiographer · New Zealand · 1919–2008

Cancer 26.3° · born July 20, 1919
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Cancer — the Sun, Mars, 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 Auckland—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

26.3° of Cancer is the Sun's exact seat — third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Jupiter in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

The personal registers

Mercury holds 23.0° Leo, Venus holds 10.8° Virgo, Mars holds 7.6° Cancer — in the old shorthand, thought that arrives already in motion; attraction that grows by reliability; effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

Closest first: the Sun to Jupiter, a conjunction with 0.8° of slack. When two functions occupy one degree, the tradition reads a fusion: neither can act without committing the other. Behind it, Mars conjunction Pluto at 0.9°, and Venus sextile Mars at 3.2° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

What the angles build

The Moon makes no major aspect that survives the day; the old reading gives such a planet autonomy — it acts alone, sometimes loudly.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, four placements stand out. Venus in Virgo at 10.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Cancer at 7.6° is in fall; Jupiter in Cancer at 27.0° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Saturn in Leo at 27.1° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives water 5, fire 4, earth 1, and cardinal 5, fixed 3, mutable 2 across the modes. A water emphasis keeps long books: little is forgotten, and nothing is felt only once. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Uranus was 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 Aries for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.0° between midnight and midnight. Whatever the unrecorded hour was, it happened inside one Moon sign — the degree floats, the sign holds. At the noon reference it stands at 20.5°.

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

Source article: Edmund Hillary · revision 1364839677
Wikidata: Q33817 · revision 2522066777
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1919-07-20 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Auckland, New Zealand · Q37100
Coordinates: -36.8492, 174.7653 · from Auckland
Reference instant: 1919-07-20T00:30:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.01° · The Moon remained in Aries throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Photographer unidentified. Retouched by TimofKingsland. · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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