Heitor Villa-Lobos

Composer · Brazil · 1887–1959

Pisces 14.8° · born March 5, 1887
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 Moon stands at 16.7° Cancer, 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 Rio de Janeiro—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 14.8° Pisces — deep enough in the second decan (10°–20°) that the Moon, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

Closer to the ground

Closer in, Mercury stands at 2.9° Aries; Venus stands at 6.7° Aries; Mars stands at 26.1° Pisces. The tradition reads thought that arrives already in motion from Mercury, attraction declared rather than implied from Venus, effort that surges when it matters from Mars.

The angles that hold

Mercury to Pluto is the closest call of the day, a sextile within 0.7°. A sextile is an offer rather than a given: available when it is reached for, quiet when it is not. Behind it, Mars sextile Neptune at 0.8°, and the Sun trine Saturn at 0.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

What the angles build

Jupiter makes no major aspect that survives the day; the old reading gives such a planet autonomy — it acts alone, sometimes loudly.

The classical map

The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags three placements in this chart. The Moon in Cancer at 16.7° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Venus in Aries at 6.7° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Cancer at 15.7° is in detriment. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 5 in water, 2 in fire, 2 in air, 1 in earth by element, 5 cardinal, 3 mutable, 2 fixed by modality. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus were retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.9° 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 16.7°.

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

Source article: Heitor Villa-Lobos · revision 1366107203
Wikidata: Q203514 · revision 2515851793
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1887-03-05 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Q8678
Coordinates: -22.9111, -43.2056 · from Rio de Janeiro
Reference instant: 1887-03-05T15:06:28.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.93° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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