Helen B. Taussig

Physician · United States · 1898–1986

Gemini 3.5° · born May 24, 1898
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

Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Gemini — the Sun, Venus, Neptune and Pluto. The placements whose signs could change with an unknown hour are not counted. A cluster that size becomes the section the rest of the chart plays around.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

3.5° of Gemini is the Sun's exact seat — first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by Mercury in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

The personal registers

Mercury holds 9.4° Taurus, Venus holds 28.1° Gemini, Mars holds 19.8° Aries — in the old shorthand, thought with its feet on the ground; attraction that begins as conversation; effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

Jupiter and Uranus hold the closest angle here — a sextile, 1.1° wide. A sixth of the circle is close enough for cooperation and far enough that it stays optional. Behind it, Mars sextile Neptune at 1.8°, and the Sun opposition Uranus at 2.0° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.

What the angles build

Mercury 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. The Moon in Cancer at 18.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Aries at 19.8° is in domicile. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 5 air, 3 fire, 1 water, 1 earth by element and 6 mutable, 3 cardinal, 1 fixed by modality. An air emphasis is read as distance for the sake of clarity: the idea gets examined before it gets adopted. 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 11.8° 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 18.9°.

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

Source article: Helen B. Taussig · revision 1345402373
Wikidata: Q271531 · revision 2519976707
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1898-05-24 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Cambridge, United States · Q49111
Coordinates: 42.3750, -71.1061 · from Cambridge
Reference instant: 1898-05-24T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.79° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Lynn Gilbert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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