Ignaz Semmelweis

Physician and university teacher · Hungary · 1818–1865

Cancer 8.9° · born July 1, 1818
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Mars and Neptune sit 0.7° from an exact trine — near enough that the tradition reads drive and imagination as a single working part. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Tabán—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 8.9° Cancer. That falls in the first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by the Moon in the classical scheme — a water sign read through a cardinal season.

The personal registers

Closer in, Mercury stands at 21.9° Gemini; Venus stands at 7.4° Leo; Mars stands at 24.0° Leo. The tradition reads a mind at home in argument and pattern from Mercury, taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate from Venus, drive that ignites on contact from Mars.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Mars and Neptune — a trine holding at 0.7°. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned. Behind it, Saturn square Uranus at 0.9°, and the Sun opposition Jupiter at 0.9° — 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

Mercury opposes Uranus while both square Saturn. The t-square is the figure the old texts trusted for output: friction with a fixed address. Venus 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

Two planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. Mercury in Gemini at 21.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Capricorn at 8.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 fire, 3 water, 2 air, 1 earth; by modality, 6 mutable, 2 cardinal, 2 fixed. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Gemini for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.8° 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: Ignaz Semmelweis · revision 1364656242
Wikidata: Q59736 · revision 2518810154
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1818-07-01 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Tabán, Hungary · Q1075342
Coordinates: 47.4917, 19.0386 · from Tabán
Reference instant: 1818-07-01T10:43:40.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.81° · The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: József Borsos / Albert Doctor · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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