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Jacques Derrida
Philosopher and university teacher · Algeria · 1930–2004
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Pisces 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 Cancer — the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter 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 El Biar—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
22.3° of Cancer is the Sun's exact seat — third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Jupiter in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.
The personal registers
Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Cancer (22.4°), Venus in Virgo (0.9°), Mars in Gemini (0.7°): thought steeped in tone and memory, attraction that grows by reliability, effort aimed through strategy and words.
The angles that hold
The tightest geometry in the chart puts the Sun in the same degree of the zodiac from Mercury, 0.1° off exact. A conjunction is the least negotiable aspect in the scheme — no distance to argue across, so the pair arrives as a single instinct. Behind it, Venus square Mars at 0.3°, and Venus conjunction Neptune at 0.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.
The standing structure
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 dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks three placements here. Venus in Virgo at 0.9° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Cancer at 4.2° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Saturn in Capricorn at 7.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.
The shape of the whole
Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 5 water, 3 earth, 1 air, 1 fire; by modality, 6 cardinal, 4 mutable. Saturn was 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 Pisces for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° 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 13.4°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Jacques Derrida · revision 1365144446
- Wikidata
- Q130631 · revision 2520339500
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1930-07-15 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- El Biar, Algeria · Q2673474
- Coordinates
- 36.7683, 3.0306 · from El Biar
- Reference instant
- 1930-07-15T12:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 11.88° · The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- Auto-épreuve · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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