Emily Brontë

Novelist and poet · United Kingdom · 1818–1848

Leo 6.6° · born July 30, 1818
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 6.6° 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 The Brontë Birthplace—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 6.6° Leo. That falls in the first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by the Sun in the classical scheme — a fire sign read through a fixed season.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Venus in the same degree of the zodiac from Mars, 0.3° off exact. 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, Saturn square Uranus at 1.0°, and Neptune square Pluto 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.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, four sit in a sign it has an opinion about. The Sun in Leo at 6.6° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; the Moon in Cancer at 6.6° is in domicile; Venus in Virgo at 12.1° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Capricorn at 4.6° is in fall. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 fire, 3 water, 3 earth; by modality, 6 mutable, 2 fixed, 2 cardinal. Fire signs carry the scheme’s forward pressure: heat applied early, patience treated as a later skill. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were 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 Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.0° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 6.6°.

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

Source article: Emily Brontë · revision 1365227432
Wikidata: Q80137 · revision 2520235246
Retrieved: 2026-07-25T17:05:12.504Z
Birth date: 1818-07-30 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: The Brontë Birthplace, United Kingdom · Q17534538
Coordinates: 53.7910, -1.8487 · from The Brontë Birthplace
Reference instant: 1818-07-30T12:01:15.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.96° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Branwell Brontë · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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