Franz Schubert

Composer and teacher · Austria · 1797–1828

Aquarius 12.2° · born January 31, 1797
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day. Mercury crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

0.9° separates Venus and Uranus from an exact trine; at that range taste and disruption read as one mechanism. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At noon on that date the Sun stood at 12.2° Aquarius, inside the second decan (10°–20°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Mercury. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Venus was at 12.8° Capricorn, Mars was at 10.2° Aries. Read together: attraction that grows by reliability; effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

Venus and Uranus hold the closest angle here — a trine, 0.9° wide. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned. Behind it, Uranus sextile Neptune at 1.2°, and the Sun square Neptune at 1.5° — 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

No closed figure — no grand trine, t-square, or grand cross — holds among the day-stable angles. The chart distributes its tension pair by pair rather than through one standing structure.

The classical map

The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags three placements in this chart. The Sun in Aquarius at 12.2° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Aries at 10.2° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Pisces at 15.7° is in domicile. 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 3 air, 3 water, 2 earth, 1 fire by element and 4 mutable, 3 fixed, 2 cardinal by mode. Mercury crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day, so its sign is left open. Saturn and Uranus 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 Pisces for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.4° 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 19.8°.

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

Source article: Franz Schubert · revision 1365821368
Wikidata: Q7312 · revision 2522261169
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1797-01-31 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Himmelpfortgrund, Austria · Q687026
Coordinates: 48.2269, 16.3517 · from Himmelpfortgrund
Reference instant: 1797-01-31T10:54:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.42° · The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day.
Open signs: Mercury crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Wilhelm August Rieder · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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