Junko Tabei

Explorer and mountaineer · Japan · 1939–2016

Virgo 28.2° · born September 22, 1939
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The chart's headline is a sextile: Venus and Pluto within 0.1°, taste wired to depth. A sextile is an offer rather than a given: available when it is reached for, quiet when it is not.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Measured rather than labelled, the Sun holds 28.2° Virgo: the third decan, whose classical sub-ruler is Venus. A earth sign, read here in its third face.

The personal registers

Mercury holds 27.8° Virgo, Venus holds 2.6° Libra, Mars holds 29.3° Capricorn — in the old shorthand, a mind that trusts the measured and the checked; taste led by wit and proportion; drive that grinds rather than flares.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Venus and Pluto: 0.1° from an exact sextile. A sixth of the circle is close enough for cooperation and far enough that it stays optional. Behind it, the Sun conjunction Mercury at 0.4°, and Mars square Saturn at 0.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These angles were checked through every hour of that civil day and survive throughout, which is why an unrecorded hour does not disturb them.

What the angles build

Mars opposes Pluto while both square Saturn. The t-square is the figure the old texts trusted for output: friction with a fixed address. 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

The classical table has four entries for this chart. The Moon in Capricorn at 17.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mercury in Virgo at 27.8° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Libra at 2.6° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Capricorn at 29.3° is in exaltation. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 6 earth, 2 fire, 1 air by element and 4 cardinal, 3 mutable, 2 fixed by mode. An earth emphasis reads as patience with material reality — slow hands, durable results. Saturn crossed from Taurus into Aries 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. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus 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 Capricorn for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.1° 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 17.3°.

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

Source article: Junko Tabei · revision 1362953021
Wikidata: Q234491 · revision 2517547153
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1939-09-22 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Miharu, Japan · Q1348269
Coordinates: 37.4406, 140.4932 · from Miharu
Reference instant: 1939-09-22T03:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.11° · The Moon remained in Capricorn throughout that civil day.
Open signs: Saturn crossed from Taurus into Aries during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Jaan Künnap · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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