Edward Elgar

Composer · United Kingdom · 1857–1934

Gemini 11.8° · born June 2, 1857
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Libra 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 Taurus — Venus, Jupiter, Uranus 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 Lower Broadheath—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

Gemini, but precisely: 11.8°, second decan, 10°–20°, under Venus in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The personal registers

Closer in, Mercury stands at 10.1° Gemini; Venus stands at 11.5° Taurus; Mars stands at 13.1° Gemini. The tradition reads a mind at home in argument and pattern from Mercury, taste for the substantial and the lasting from Venus, drive that argues its way forward from Mars.

The angles that hold

Closest first: the Sun to Mars, a conjunction with 1.3° of slack. When two functions occupy one degree, the tradition reads a fusion: neither can act without committing the other. Behind it, Venus sextile Saturn at 1.6°, and the Sun conjunction Mercury at 1.8° — 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.

The standing structure

The day-stable angles form no closed figure. Nothing funnels; each aspect is its own negotiation, which the tradition reads as a chart of separate treaties rather than one campaign.

The classical map

Three planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. Mercury in Gemini at 10.1° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Venus in Taurus at 11.5° is in domicile; Saturn in Cancer at 13.1° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives air 4, earth 4, water 2, and mutable 4, fixed 4, cardinal 2 across the modes. No settled placement falls in fire — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mercury 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 Libra for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° 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 14.7°.

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

Source article: Edward Elgar · revision 1365886585
Wikidata: Q179631 · revision 2516544839
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1857-06-02 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Lower Broadheath, United Kingdom · Q2423318
Coordinates: 52.2092, -2.2732 · from Lower Broadheath
Reference instant: 1857-06-02T12:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.85° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: not stated · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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