George Gershwin

Composer and painter · United States · 1898–1937

Libra 3.6° · born September 26, 1898
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Five of the ten placements whose signs are settled fall in air signs — at least half of what the unknown hour leaves certain. Air signs carry exchange in the scheme — comparison, argument, the sentence that makes the situation legible.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Libra, but precisely: 3.6°, first decan, 0°–10°, under Venus in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The personal registers

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Virgo (17.1°), Venus in Scorpio (20.0°), Mars in Cancer (13.8°): a mind that trusts the measured and the checked, taste tuned to mood and undertow, drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Jupiter to Pluto is the closest call of the day, a trine within 1.2°. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned. Behind it, Mercury square Pluto at 1.4°, and Mercury sextile Venus at 2.8° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.

The standing structure

Neptune stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, four sit in a sign it has an opinion about. The Sun in Libra at 3.6° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mercury in Virgo at 17.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Scorpio at 20.0° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Cancer at 13.8° is in fall. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 5 air, 2 water, 2 fire, 1 earth by element and 5 mutable, 3 cardinal, 2 fixed by modality. Pluto was retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Aquarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.2° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 21.1°.

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

Source article: George Gershwin · revision 1360440781
Wikidata: Q123829 · revision 2522004583
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1898-09-26 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Brooklyn, United States · Q18419
Coordinates: 40.6508, -73.9497 · from Brooklyn
Reference instant: 1898-09-26T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.21° · The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Carl Van Vechten · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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