Hector Berlioz

Conductor and writer · France · 1803–1869

Sagittarius 18.6° · born December 11, 1803
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Venus and Saturn sit 0.3° from an exact square — near enough that the tradition reads taste and structure as a single working part. Right angles are where the scheme puts its grit. A square asks two functions to work in a mode neither would have chosen.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Sagittarius, but precisely: 18.6°, second decan, 10°–20°, under Mars in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The personal registers

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 14.3° Sagittarius, Venus was at 2.9° Capricorn, Mars was at 17.7° Sagittarius. Read together: a mind that decides at speaking speed; taste for the substantial and the lasting; drive that ignites on contact.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Venus at right angles from Saturn, 0.3° 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, the Sun conjunction Mars at 0.9°, and Mercury sextile Uranus at 1.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

What the angles build

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

The classical table has three entries for this chart. The Moon in Scorpio at 18.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mercury in Sagittarius at 14.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Libra at 2.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. 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 3 fire, 3 water, 3 air, 1 earth by element and 4 mutable, 4 cardinal, 2 fixed by mode. A fire-weighted chart runs hot at the start line — initiative is its native language. All ten bodies ran direct that day — a chart with no apparent reversals anywhere in it.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Scorpio for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.1° between midnight and midnight. The sign survives the missing hour; the degree does not, and is given as a reference rather than a fact. At the noon reference it stands at 18.0°.

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

Source article: Hector Berlioz · revision 1359686355
Wikidata: Q1151 · revision 2522562693
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1803-12-11 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: La Côte-Saint-André, France · Q864123
Coordinates: 45.3936, 5.2606 · from La Côte-Saint-André
Reference instant: 1803-12-11T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.06° · The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Pierre Petit · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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