Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion designer and photographer · Germany · 1933–2019

Virgo 17.3° · born September 10, 1933
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day. Jupiter crossed from Virgo into Libra 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: Mars and Neptune within 0.2°, drive wired to imagination. 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 Hamburg—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun sits at 17.3° Virgo — the second decan, 10°–20°, which the tradition sub-rules by Saturn. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Virgo and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Virgo (15.9°), Venus in Libra (23.9°), Mars in Scorpio (10.0°): a mind that trusts the measured and the checked, taste led by wit and proportion, drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Mars to Neptune, a sextile with 0.2° of slack. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it. Behind it, Venus square Pluto at 0.5°, and Mars square Saturn at 0.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.

Figures in the geometry

Venus opposes Uranus while both square Pluto. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, four sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Mercury in Virgo at 15.9° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Libra at 23.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Scorpio at 10.0° is in domicile; Saturn in Aquarius at 10.7° is in domicile. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 8 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 3 earth, 2 air, 2 water, 1 fire by element and 3 mutable, 3 cardinal, 2 fixed by mode. An earth emphasis reads as patience with material reality — slow hands, durable results. Jupiter crossed from Virgo into Libra during that day, so its sign is left open. 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 Taurus into Gemini 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: Karl Lagerfeld · revision 1360560430
Wikidata: Q76716 · revision 2519790618
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1933-09-10 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany · Q1055
Coordinates: 53.5500, 10.0000 · from Hamburg
Reference instant: 1933-09-10T11:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.04° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day.
Open signs: Jupiter crossed from Virgo into Libra during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Christopher William Adach · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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