Francisco Goya

Painter · Spain · 1746–1828

Aries 9.7° · born March 30, 1746
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

Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Aries — the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars. 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 Fuendetodos—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun sits at 9.7° Aries — the first decan, 0°–10°, which the tradition sub-rules by Mars. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Aries and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

Closer to the ground

Mercury holds 12.7° Aries, Venus holds 8.8° Aries, Mars holds 22.8° Aries — in the old shorthand, a mind that decides at speaking speed; taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate; drive that ignites on contact.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Venus and Uranus: 0.3° from an exact sextile. A sextile pays out only on effort; the scheme calls it opportunity rather than gift. Behind it, the Sun conjunction Venus at 0.9°, and the Sun sextile Uranus at 1.1° — 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 Sun opposes Saturn while both square Neptune. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment. Mars 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

Six planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Sun in Aries at 9.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; the Moon in Cancer at 12.7° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Venus in Aries at 8.8° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Aries at 22.8° is in domicile; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 15.1° is in domicile; Saturn in Libra at 11.2° is in exaltation. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 5 in fire, 3 in water, 2 in air by element, 7 cardinal, 2 fixed, 1 mutable by modality. A fire-weighted chart runs hot at the start line — initiative is its native language. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Saturn and Pluto were retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.0° 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 12.7°.

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

Source article: Francisco Goya · revision 1366087836
Wikidata: Q5432 · revision 2522260842
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1746-03-30 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Fuendetodos, Spain · Q1372769
Coordinates: 41.3413, -0.9595 · from Fuendetodos
Reference instant: 1746-03-30T12:14:44.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.97° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Vicente López Portaña · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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