Joan Miró

Painter and designer · Spain · 1893–1983

Taurus 0.6° · born April 20, 1893
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Fixed signs carry three of the nine placements whose signs are settled — the broadest certain weighting in the chart. Fixed weight is the scheme’s deep keel: slow to turn, near-impossible to capsize.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 0.6° Taurus — deep enough in the first decan (0°–10°) that Venus, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 5.9° Aries, Venus was at 27.5° Aries, Mars was at 14.8° Gemini. Read together: thought that arrives already in motion; attraction declared rather than implied; effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — Saturn trine Pluto, 0.6° of separation. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, Neptune conjunction Pluto at 1.1°, and Saturn trine Neptune at 1.7° — 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.

What the angles build

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 oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags two placements in this chart. Venus in Aries at 27.5° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Libra at 7.8° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in air, 2 in earth, 2 in fire, 1 in water by element, 3 fixed, 3 cardinal, 3 mutable by modality. Saturn and Uranus 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 Gemini into Cancer during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.6° 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.

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

Source article: Joan Miró · revision 1365673785
Wikidata: Q152384 · revision 2520564653
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1893-04-20 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain · Q1492
Coordinates: 41.3825, 2.1769 · from Barcelona
Reference instant: 1893-04-20T12:14:44.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.58° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Carl Van Vechten · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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