People · sourced chart
Honoré de Balzac
Novelist · France · 1799–1850
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Sagittarius throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
Venus and Pluto sit 0.0° from an exact trine — near enough that the tradition reads taste and depth as a single working part. A trine runs downhill — the talent that never announces itself because it never had to.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Tours—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 29.4° Taurus. That falls in the third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Saturn in the classical scheme — a earth sign read through a fixed season.
The personal registers
For the fast movers, Mercury was at 11.9° Taurus, Venus was at 3.1° Cancer, Mars was at 8.0° Cancer. Read together: a mind that trusts the measured and the checked; taste tuned to mood and undertow; drive that moves on certainty and current.
The angles that hold
Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Venus and Pluto: 0.0° from an exact trine. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned. Behind it, Mercury opposition Neptune at 1.4°, and Jupiter square Pluto at 3.4° — 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
Three planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. Mars in Cancer at 8.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Gemini at 6.6° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Cancer at 22.4° is in detriment. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.
The shape of the whole
Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 5 water, 3 earth, 1 fire, 1 air; by modality, 4 mutable, 3 fixed, 3 cardinal. Water weights a chart toward the felt and the remembered — information that arrives as atmosphere before it arrives as words. Uranus and Neptune were retrograde. Mercury changed direction during the day, so its motion is left open.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Sagittarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.5° between midnight and midnight. Whatever the unrecorded hour was, it happened inside one Moon sign — the degree floats, the sign holds. At the noon reference it stands at 15.4°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Honoré de Balzac · revision 1364480068
- Wikidata
- Q9711 · revision 2522262238
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1799-05-20 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Tours, France · Q288
- Coordinates
- 47.3928, 0.6883 · from Tours
- Reference instant
- 1799-05-20T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 14.53° · The Moon remained in Sagittarius throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- Louis-Auguste Bisson · public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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