Julia de Burgos

Poet and political activist · United States · 1914–1953

Aquarius 28.2° · born February 17, 1914
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day. Venus crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

0.4° separates Venus and Pluto from an exact trine; at that range taste and depth read as one mechanism. A trine runs downhill — the talent that never announces itself because it never had to.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At noon on that date the Sun stood at 28.2° Aquarius, inside the third decan (20°–30°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Venus. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

Closer to the ground

Mercury holds 14.9° Pisces, Mars holds 5.8° Cancer — in the old shorthand, thought steeped in tone and memory; effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

Venus and Pluto hold the closest angle here — a trine, 0.4° wide. A trine runs downhill — the talent that never announces itself because it never had to. Behind it, the Sun trine Pluto at 1.0°, and the Sun conjunction Venus at 1.4° — 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

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 three placements in this chart. The Sun in Aquarius at 28.2° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mercury in Pisces at 14.9° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Cancer at 5.8° is in fall. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 8 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 5 air, 3 water by element and 3 fixed, 3 mutable, 2 cardinal by modality. Venus crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day, so its sign is left open. No settled placement falls in fire or earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.7° between one midnight and the next. Half the day belongs to each sign, and the split falls at an unrecorded hour — so this page holds the Moon as a genuine unknown.

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

Source article: Julia de Burgos · revision 1357964076
Wikidata: Q468516 · revision 2517874216
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T19:05:54.525Z
Birth date: 1914-02-17 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Carolina, United States · Q990293
Coordinates: 18.3889, -65.9667 · from Carolina
Reference instant: 1914-02-17T16:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.73° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
Open signs: Venus crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Ir2409 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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