Jean-Michel Basquiat

Painter and composer · United States · 1960–1988

Capricorn 0.9° · born December 22, 1960
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, Mars holds a opposition to Jupiter at 0.1° — close enough to weld drive to expansion. An opposition is the tradition’s tug of war. Both ends are real, and the work is holding them at once rather than picking a winner.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Park Slope—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

0.9° of Capricorn is the Sun's exact seat — first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by Saturn in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

The fast planets

Closer in, Mercury stands at 22.8° Sagittarius; Venus stands at 14.6° Aquarius; Mars stands at 11.8° Cancer. The tradition reads thought that arrives already in motion from Mercury, attraction that begins as conversation from Venus, effort that surges when it matters from Mars.

The angles that hold

Mars and Jupiter hold the closest angle here — a opposition, 0.1° wide. Oppositions are read as full-moon geometry — maximum visibility between two needs that share one spine. Behind it, Mars trine Neptune at 1.2°, and Jupiter sextile Neptune at 1.3° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

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

Read against the old dignities, four placements stand out. Mercury in Sagittarius at 22.8° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Cancer at 11.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Capricorn at 11.9° is in fall; Saturn in Capricorn at 18.5° 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

Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in earth, 2 in fire, 2 in water, 1 in air by element, 4 cardinal, 3 fixed, 2 mutable by modality. Earth counts what remains: the built, the kept, the finished. Promise weighs less than delivery. Mars, Uranus and Pluto were retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.3° between one midnight and the next. A birth time would settle it in a second; there isn’t one. So the Moon stays unnamed here — the alternative is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.

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Source article: Jean-Michel Basquiat · revision 1365849785
Wikidata: Q155407 · revision 2521834243
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1960-12-22 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Park Slope, United States · Q2607610
Coordinates: 40.6724, -73.9771 · from Park Slope
Reference instant: 1960-12-22T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.33° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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