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Irma Stern
Painter · South Africa · 1894–1966
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
Five of the ten placements whose signs are settled fall in air signs — at least half of what the unknown hour leaves certain. Air signs carry exchange in the scheme — comparison, argument, the sentence that makes the situation legible.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Schweizer-Reneke—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
At the noon reference the Sun sits 9.2° into Libra — the first decan, which the old scheme hands to Venus. Same sign, different decan, different chart.
Closer to the ground
Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Libra (29.2°), Venus in Virgo (24.3°), Mars in Taurus (3.1°): thought that travels by comparison, attraction that grows by reliability, effort banked steadily until it tells.
The angles that hold
The tightest geometry in the chart puts Mars a sixth of the circle apart from Jupiter, 2.4° off exact. A sextile pays out only on effort; the scheme calls it opportunity rather than gift. Behind it, the Sun trine Pluto at 2.5°, and Mercury conjunction Saturn at 3.4° — 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
The Moon 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 six placements in this chart. The Sun in Libra at 9.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; the Moon in Scorpio at 19.6° is in fall; Venus in Virgo at 24.3° is in fall; Mars in Taurus at 3.1° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Cancer at 5.5° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Saturn in Libra at 25.8° is in exaltation. 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 water, 2 earth by element and 4 cardinal, 3 fixed, 3 mutable by modality. An air-weighted chart thinks in through-lines; the sentence is how it takes hold of the world. No settled placement falls in fire — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mars, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the backward drift a body appears to make as the Earth overtakes it, read in the scheme as a function that reviews before it releases.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Scorpio for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.0° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 19.6°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Irma Stern · revision 1352876432
- Wikidata
- Q281203 · revision 2517408389
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1894-10-02 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Schweizer-Reneke, South Africa · Q2568047
- Coordinates
- -27.1833, 25.3333 · from Schweizer-Reneke
- Reference instant
- 1894-10-02T10:30:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 13.04° · The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · no image claim on the Wikidata entity
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