Jim Morrison

Singer-songwriter and lyricist · United States · 1943–1971

Sagittarius 15.7° · born December 8, 1943
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day. Venus crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 9.3° Taurus, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Melbourne—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 15.7° into Sagittarius — the second decan, which the old scheme hands to Mars. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

The fast planets

The personal planets sit Mercury at 0.9° Capricorn, Mars at 11.7° Gemini. Mercury in a earth sign reads as thought with its feet on the ground; Mars in a air sign reads as effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Mercury to Venus, a sextile with 0.5° of slack. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it. Behind it, Uranus sextile Pluto at 2.1°, and Uranus trine Neptune at 2.4° — 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

No closed figure — no grand trine, t-square, or grand cross — holds among the day-stable angles. The chart distributes its tension pair by pair rather than through one standing structure.

The classical map

The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags a single placement in this chart. The Moon in Taurus at 9.3° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives air 4, fire 3, earth 2, and mutable 4, fixed 3, cardinal 2 across the modes. Venus crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day, so its sign is left open. No settled placement falls in water — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mars, Saturn, Uranus 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 Taurus for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.4° between midnight and midnight. The sign survives the missing hour; the degree does not, and is given as a reference rather than a fact. At the noon reference it stands at 9.3°.

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

Source article: Jim Morrison · revision 1365172465
Wikidata: Q44301 · revision 2518879321
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1943-12-08 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Melbourne, United States · Q949779
Coordinates: 28.0836, -80.6081 · from Melbourne
Reference instant: 1943-12-08T16:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.41° · The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day.
Open signs: Venus crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Elektra Records · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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