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Edvard Grieg
Composer · Norway · 1843–1907
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Capricorn into Aquarius during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
Venus and Saturn sit 0.3° from an exact trine — near enough that the tradition reads taste and structure as a single working part. The scheme reads trines as water finding its level: effortless, and invisible to the person living it.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Bergen—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 23.6° Gemini. That falls in the third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Saturn in the classical scheme — a air sign read through a mutable season.
The fast planets
For the fast movers, Mercury was at 29.3° Gemini, Venus was at 24.9° Taurus, Mars was at 12.2° Sagittarius. Read together: a mind at home in argument and pattern; taste for the substantial and the lasting; drive that ignites on contact.
The angles that hold
Closest first: Venus to Saturn, a trine with 0.3° of slack. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, the Sun sextile Pluto at 0.9°, and Neptune sextile Pluto at 1.3° — 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.
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
Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, three sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Mercury in Gemini at 29.3° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Venus in Taurus at 24.9° is in domicile; Saturn in Capricorn at 24.6° is in domicile. 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 air, 3 fire, 2 earth by element and 3 mutable, 3 fixed, 3 cardinal by mode. An air emphasis is read as distance for the sake of clarity: the idea gets examined before it gets adopted. No settled placement falls in water — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Neptune were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.
The Moon is genuinely open
The Moon crossed from Capricorn into Aquarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.0° 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
- Edvard Grieg · revision 1365972968
- Wikidata
- Q80621 · revision 2521951113
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1843-06-15 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Bergen, Norway · Q26793
- Coordinates
- 60.3925, 5.3233 · from Bergen
- Reference instant
- 1843-06-15T11:06:32.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 13.00° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Capricorn into Aquarius during that day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · licence "No restrictions" is outside the accepted set (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA)
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