Karel Čapek

Translator and photographer · Czech Republic · 1890–1938

Capricorn 19.2° · born January 9, 1890
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

0.6° separates the Sun and Jupiter from an exact conjunction; at that range identity and expansion read as one mechanism. When two functions occupy one degree, the tradition reads a fusion: neither can act without committing the other.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Malé Svatoňovice—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 19.2° Capricorn — deep enough in the second decan (10°–20°) that Venus, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

Closer to the ground

Closer in, Mercury stands at 7.1° Aquarius; Venus stands at 9.6° Capricorn; Mars stands at 4.7° Scorpio. The tradition reads thought that travels by comparison from Mercury, attraction that grows by reliability from Venus, effort that surges when it matters from Mars.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins the Sun and Jupiter — a conjunction holding at 0.6°. When two functions occupy one degree, the tradition reads a fusion: neither can act without committing the other. Behind it, Saturn square Neptune at 1.3°, and Mars sextile Saturn at 1.4° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.

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 dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks two placements here. Mars in Scorpio at 4.7° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Capricorn at 19.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements earth 4, air 4, water 1; modalities cardinal 4, mutable 3, fixed 2. Earth counts what remains: the built, the kept, the finished. Promise weighs less than delivery. No settled placement falls in fire — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Saturn, 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 Leo into Virgo during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.0° 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: Karel Čapek · revision 1361232868
Wikidata: Q155855 · revision 2518465834
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1890-01-09 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Malé Svatoňovice, Czech Republic · Q1818270
Coordinates: 50.5340, 16.0499 · from Malé Svatoňovice
Reference instant: 1890-01-09T11:02:16.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.98° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Leo into Virgo during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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