People · sourced chart
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Painter and writer · France · 1755–1842
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
The Sun stands at 26.1° Aries, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. 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 Paris—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
26.1° of Aries 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
The personal planets sit Mercury at 2.0° Aries, Venus at 10.9° Pisces, Mars at 11.5° Pisces. Mercury in a fire sign reads as thought that arrives already in motion; Venus in a water sign reads as attraction that works by atmosphere; Mars in a water sign reads as effort that surges when it matters.
The angles that hold
Venus to Mars is the closest call of the day, a conjunction within 0.5°. Two bodies in the same degree are not read as neighbours but as a merger: whatever one wants, the other is already funding. Behind it, Venus opposition Jupiter at 1.7°, and Mars conjunction Uranus at 2.2° — 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.
Figures in the geometry
Venus opposes Jupiter while both square Pluto. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet.
The classical map
The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks four placements here. The Sun in Aries at 26.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Pisces at 10.9° is in exaltation; Jupiter in Virgo at 9.2° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Capricorn at 28.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.
The shape of the whole
Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 fire, 3 water, 2 earth, 1 air; by modality, 6 mutable, 3 cardinal, 1 fixed. A fire emphasis is read as appetite for the first move, with information gathered by doing rather than before doing. Jupiter and Pluto were retrograde. Neptune changed direction during the day, so its motion is left open.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Gemini for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.2° 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 19.2°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun · revision 1364495580
- Wikidata
- Q213163 · revision 2522264431
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1755-04-16 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Paris, France · Q90
- Coordinates
- 48.8567, 2.3522 · from Paris
- Reference instant
- 1755-04-16T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 12.21° · The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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