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George Bernard Shaw
Politician and playwright · Ireland · 1856–1950
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
The Sun stands at 3.6° Leo, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Dublin—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 3.6° Leo, inside the first decan (0°–10°), whose traditional sub-ruler is the Sun. 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
Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Cancer (18.9°), Venus in Leo (5.2°), Mars in Libra (27.4°): thought steeped in tone and memory, attraction declared rather than implied, effort aimed through strategy and words.
The angles that hold
The tightest geometry in the chart puts Venus at right angles from Pluto, 0.4° off exact. A square is friction that produces motion — the aspect the tradition credits with building capability precisely by refusing to be comfortable. Behind it, Mercury trine Neptune at 1.2°, and Jupiter square Saturn at 1.5° — 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.
What the angles build
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
Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. The Sun in Leo at 3.6° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Libra at 27.4° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Cancer at 7.6° is in detriment. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.
The shape of the whole
Tallied where the signs are certain — 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives fire 3, water 3, earth 2, air 1, and fixed 4, cardinal 4, mutable 1 across the modes. Neptune was retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.
The Moon is genuinely open
The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.7° between one midnight and the next. Which of the two it was depends entirely on the hour, and the hour is not recorded. Rather than pick the likelier half, the reading leaves the Moon open.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- George Bernard Shaw · revision 1366109245
- Wikidata
- Q19185 · revision 2522687301
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1856-07-26 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland · Q1761
- Coordinates
- 53.3497, -6.2603 · from Dublin
- Reference instant
- 1856-07-26T12:25:21.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 13.70° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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