People · sourced chart
J. M. W. Turner
Painter · United Kingdom · 1775–1851
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Aquarius 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 earth signs — at least half of what the unknown hour leaves certain. An earth emphasis reads as patience with material reality — slow hands, durable results.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Maiden Lane—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
Taurus, but precisely: 3.1°, first decan, 0°–10°, under Venus in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.
The personal registers
Mercury holds 6.1° Aries, Venus holds 28.9° Taurus, Mars holds 26.9° Leo — in the old shorthand, a mind that decides at speaking speed; taste for the substantial and the lasting; drive that ignites on contact.
The angles that hold
The day's firmest angle joins Venus and Uranus — a conjunction holding at 1.9°. Two bodies in the same degree are not read as neighbours but as a merger: whatever one wants, the other is already funding. Behind it, Venus square Mars at 1.9°, and Venus trine Pluto at 2.1° — 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
Venus, Saturn, Pluto close a triangle of trines. The closed triangle is the scheme’s picture of flow — and its warning that flow, unspent, stays private. 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
Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, two sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Venus in Taurus at 28.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Libra at 3.5° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.
The shape of the whole
The honest balance sheet uses the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: earth 5, air 3, fire 2 across the elements, and fixed 5, cardinal 3, mutable 2 across the modalities. No settled placement falls in water — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Saturn and Neptune were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Aquarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.1° 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 11.8°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- J. M. W. Turner · revision 1366100772
- Wikidata
- Q159758 · revision 2522295027
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1775-04-23 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Maiden Lane, United Kingdom · Q23041988
- Coordinates
- 51.5107, -0.1229 · from Maiden Lane
- Reference instant
- 1775-04-23T12:01:15.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 14.11° · The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · the recorded creator is the subject ("J. M. W. Turner"), so the licence holder of this reproduction cannot be credited accurately without separate review
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