Eileen Gray

Architect and designer · Ireland · 1878–1976

Leo 15.8° · born August 8, 1878
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 15.8° Leo, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Enniscorthy—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 15.8° Leo — deep enough in the second decan (10°–20°) that Jupiter, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 12.5° Virgo, Venus was at 15.8° Cancer, Mars was at 29.3° Leo. Read together: thought with its feet on the ground; attraction that works by atmosphere; effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Mars in the same degree of the zodiac from Uranus, 0.3° off exact. When two functions occupy one degree, the tradition reads a fusion: neither can act without committing the other. Behind it, Jupiter sextile Saturn at 1.9°, and Uranus square Pluto at 2.5° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

The standing structure

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

The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks three placements here. The Sun in Leo at 15.8° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mercury in Virgo at 12.5° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Saturn in Aries at 2.4° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 5 fire, 3 earth, 1 water, 1 air by element and 6 fixed, 2 mutable, 2 cardinal by mode. Fire signs carry the scheme’s forward pressure: heat applied early, patience treated as a later skill. Jupiter and Saturn were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Sagittarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.2° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 23.2°.

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

Source article: Eileen Gray · revision 1363020590
Wikidata: Q438129 · revision 2521473718
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1878-08-08 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Enniscorthy, Ireland · Q987759
Coordinates: 52.5021, -6.5659 · from Enniscorthy
Reference instant: 1878-08-08T12:25:21.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.18° · The Moon remained in Sagittarius throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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