G. E. M. Anscombe

Philosopher and university teacher · Ireland · 1919–2001

Pisces 26.8° · born March 18, 1919
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Count only what the day settles, and fire still carries five of the ten placements whose signs are settled. A fire emphasis is read as appetite for the first move, with information gathered by doing rather than before doing.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Limerick—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 26.8° Pisces, inside the third decan (20°–30°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Mars. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

The personal registers

Closer in, Mercury stands at 14.8° Aries; Venus stands at 23.9° Aries; Mars stands at 9.0° Aries. The tradition reads thought that arrives already in motion from Mercury, attraction declared rather than implied from Venus, effort spent in bursts and openings from Mars.

The angles that hold

Venus to Saturn is the closest call of the day, a trine within 1.4°. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, Jupiter conjunction Pluto at 1.6°, and Mars trine Neptune at 2.3° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.

Figures in the geometry

The Sun 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 dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks four placements here. Venus in Aries at 23.9° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Aries at 9.0° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Cancer at 6.2° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Saturn in Leo at 22.5° is in detriment. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives fire 5, water 3, air 2, and cardinal 6, fixed 3, mutable 1 across the modes. Fire signs carry the scheme’s forward pressure: heat applied early, patience treated as a later skill. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Saturn, 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 Libra for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.0° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 17.4°.

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

Source article: G. E. M. Anscombe · revision 1364213404
Wikidata: Q229646 · revision 2517528357
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1919-03-18 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Limerick, Ireland · Q133315
Coordinates: 52.6653, -8.6238 · from Limerick
Reference instant: 1919-03-18T12:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.98° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Albarluque · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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