Guy de Maupassant

Short story writer · France · 1850–1893

Leo 12.6° · born August 5, 1850
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 12.6° 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 Tourville-sur-Arques—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's exact place is 12.6° Leo. That falls in the second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Jupiter in the classical scheme — a fire sign read through a fixed season.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 18.0° Leo, Venus was at 21.3° Virgo, Mars was at 18.7° Virgo. Read together: a mind that decides at speaking speed; taste for the substantial and the lasting; drive that grinds rather than flares.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Uranus and Pluto: 0.5° from an exact conjunction. Two bodies in the same degree are not read as neighbours but as a merger: whatever one wants, the other is already funding. Behind it, Venus conjunction Jupiter at 1.3°, and Venus conjunction Mars at 2.7° — 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

The Moon 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

Five planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Sun in Leo at 12.6° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; the Moon in Cancer at 8.7° is in domicile; Venus in Virgo at 21.3° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Virgo at 22.6° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Aries at 21.0° is in fall. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 fire, 4 earth, 2 water by element and 4 mutable, 3 fixed, 3 cardinal by mode. A fire emphasis is read as appetite for the first move, with information gathered by doing rather than before doing. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. Uranus changed direction during the day, so its motion is left open.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.9° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 8.7°.

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

Source article: Guy de Maupassant · revision 1365817617
Wikidata: Q9327 · revision 2522040789
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1850-08-05 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Tourville-sur-Arques, France · Q629137
Coordinates: 49.8583, 1.1014 · from Tourville-sur-Arques
Reference instant: 1850-08-05T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.87° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Nadar · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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