Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosopher and university teacher · Germany · 1770–1831

Virgo 4.1° · born August 27, 1770
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Five of the nine placements whose signs are settled fall in earth signs — at least half of what the unknown hour leaves certain. An earth emphasis reads as trust in the tangible: the plan matters less than whether the thing stands up.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 4.1° Virgo — deep enough in the first decan (0°–10°) that Mercury, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

The personal registers

The personal planets sit Mercury at 13.9° Virgo, Venus at 13.0° Libra, Mars at 8.4° Gemini. Mercury in a earth sign reads as thought with its feet on the ground; Venus in a air sign reads as attraction that begins as conversation; Mars in a air sign reads as effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Uranus to Pluto, a trine with 0.3° of slack. A trine is an open channel. The two cooperate without being asked, which is exactly why it is easy to spend and easy to take for granted. Behind it, Mercury square Jupiter at 1.0°, and Mars sextile Saturn at 1.1° — 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.

What the angles build

Mercury, Uranus, Pluto close a triangle of trines. The closed triangle is the scheme’s picture of flow — and its warning that flow, unspent, stays private. Mars opposes Jupiter while both square Mercury. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment.

The classical map

The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags four placements in this chart. Mercury in Virgo at 13.9° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Libra at 13.0° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 14.9° is in domicile; Saturn in Leo at 9.6° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements earth 5, air 2, fire 2; modalities mutable 5, cardinal 2, fixed 2. An earth emphasis reads as trust in the tangible: the plan matters less than whether the thing stands up. No settled placement falls in water — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Uranus and Pluto were retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.3° between one midnight and the next. A birth time would settle it in a second; there isn’t one. So the Moon stays unnamed here — the alternative is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.

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

Source article: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · revision 1366164359
Wikidata: Q9235 · revision 2522980283
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1770-08-27 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Stuttgart, Germany · Q1022
Coordinates: 48.7775, 9.1800 · from Stuttgart
Reference instant: 1770-08-27T11:06:32.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.35° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Jakob Schlesinger · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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