Jane Austen

Writer · United Kingdom · 1775–1817

Sagittarius 24.4° · born December 16, 1775
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Mars and Saturn sit 0.4° from an exact square — near enough that the tradition reads drive and structure as a single working part. The old texts treat a square as the aspect you feel earliest and thank latest: obstruction first, competence afterwards.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Steventon—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 24.4° Sagittarius. That falls in the third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by the Sun in the classical scheme — a fire sign read through a mutable season.

The personal registers

Closer in, Mercury stands at 5.5° Sagittarius; Venus stands at 9.1° Scorpio; Mars stands at 19.2° Capricorn. The tradition reads a mind that decides at speaking speed from Mercury, taste tuned to mood and undertow from Venus, drive that grinds rather than flares from Mars.

The angles that hold

Mars to Saturn is the closest call of the day, a square within 0.4°. Right angles are where the scheme puts its grit. A square asks two functions to work in a mode neither would have chosen. Behind it, the Sun square Neptune at 0.4°, and Neptune trine Pluto at 0.5° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.

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

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, five sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Mercury in Sagittarius at 5.5° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Venus in Scorpio at 9.1° is in detriment; Mars in Capricorn at 19.2° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Jupiter in Gemini at 15.6° is in detriment; Saturn in Libra at 19.6° is in exaltation. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: air 4, earth 3, fire 2, water 1 across the elements, and mutable 5, cardinal 4, fixed 1 across the modalities. Jupiter and Uranus were retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Libra for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.2° 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 8.9°.

Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes

Source article: Jane Austen · revision 1365630000
Wikidata: Q36322 · revision 2522859992
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1775-12-16 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Steventon, United Kingdom · Q1231836
Coordinates: 51.2303, -1.2189 · from Steventon
Reference instant: 1775-12-16T12:01:15.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.23° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Cassandra Austen · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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