George Sand

Writer and women's rights activist · France · 1804–1876

Cancer 9.3° · born July 1, 1804
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

0.3° separates the Sun and Pluto from an exact trine; at that range identity and depth read as one mechanism. 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.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in former 6th arrondissement of Paris—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 9.3° Cancer, inside the first decan (0°–10°), whose traditional sub-ruler is the Moon. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

The fast planets

Mercury holds 18.1° Gemini, Venus holds 17.1° Leo, Mars holds 22.6° Taurus — in the old shorthand, thought that travels by comparison; attraction declared rather than implied; effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

Closest first: the Sun to Pluto, a trine with 0.3° of slack. The scheme reads trines as water finding its level: effortless, and invisible to the person living it. Behind it, Mars opposition Neptune at 0.8°, and Mercury sextile Venus at 1.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

Figures in the geometry

Mars opposes Neptune while both square Venus. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet. 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, two placements stand out. Mercury in Gemini at 18.1° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Taurus at 22.6° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 3 water, 3 air, 2 fire, 2 earth by element and 4 cardinal, 3 mutable, 3 fixed by mode. Neptune 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Aries 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 20.4°.

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

Source article: George Sand · revision 1362640876
Wikidata: Q3816 · revision 2522261419
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1804-07-01 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: former 6th arrondissement of Paris, France · Q2845758
Coordinates: 48.8658, 2.3638 · from former 6th arrondissement of Paris
Reference instant: 1804-07-01T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.20° · The Moon remained in Aries throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Auguste Charpentier · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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