Franz Kafka

Novelist and lawyer · Czech Republic · 1883–1924

Cancer 11.1° · born July 3, 1883
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Four of the nine placements whose signs are settled stand in Gemini — Mercury, Venus, Saturn 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 Prague—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

11.1° of Cancer is the Sun's exact seat — second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Mars in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

Closer to the ground

Mercury holds 19.7° Gemini, Venus holds 19.8° Gemini, Mars holds 25.0° Taurus — in the old shorthand, thought that travels by comparison; attraction that begins as conversation; effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

Mercury and Venus hold the closest angle here — a conjunction, 0.0° wide. A conjunction is the least negotiable aspect in the scheme — no distance to argue across, so the pair arrives as a single instinct. Behind it, Venus square Uranus at 0.1°, and Mercury square Uranus at 0.1° — 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 oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags three placements in this chart. Mercury in Gemini at 19.7° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Taurus at 25.0° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Cancer at 12.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 air, 3 earth, 2 water by element and 5 mutable, 2 cardinal, 2 fixed by mode. No settled placement falls in fire — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. The day carried no retrograde motion at all; everything moved forward as seen from here.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.1° between one midnight and the next. Without a recorded hour there is no honest way to say which side it was on, so this reading does not say. The Moon sign is a real question here, not a rounding error, and it needs a birth time nobody has published.

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

Source article: Franz Kafka · revision 1365053677
Wikidata: Q905 · revision 2522755513
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1883-07-03 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Prague, Czech Republic · Q1085
Coordinates: 50.0875, 14.4214 · from Prague
Reference instant: 1883-07-03T11:02:16.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.06° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown photographer · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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