Karl Marx

Economist and journalist · Germany · 1818–1883

Taurus 14.3° · born May 5, 1818
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 16.0° Taurus, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Taurus, but precisely: 14.3°, second decan, 10°–20°, under Mercury in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 3.9° Gemini, Venus was at 28.0° Taurus, Mars was at 21.0° Cancer. Read together: a mind at home in argument and pattern; taste for the substantial and the lasting; drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Neptune to Pluto, a square with 0.2° of slack. A square is the tradition’s engine room: two drives at cross purposes, and the friction is the horsepower. Behind it, the Sun trine Jupiter at 1.4°, and the Sun sextile Saturn at 1.5° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

The standing structure

The day-stable angles form no closed figure. Nothing funnels; each aspect is its own negotiation, which the tradition reads as a chart of separate treaties rather than one campaign.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, five sit in a sign it has an opinion about. The Moon in Taurus at 16.0° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mercury in Gemini at 3.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Venus in Taurus at 28.0° is in domicile; Mars in Cancer at 21.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Capricorn at 12.9° is in fall. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 earth, 3 water, 2 fire, 1 air by element and 5 mutable, 3 fixed, 2 cardinal by modality. Earth signs hold the scheme’s slow end, where results are measured in what survives rather than what starts. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Taurus for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° between midnight and midnight. The sign survives the missing hour; the degree does not, and is given as a reference rather than a fact. At the noon reference it stands at 16.0°.

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

Source article: Karl Marx · revision 1365465604
Wikidata: Q9061 · revision 2522870233
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1818-05-05 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Trier, Germany · Q3138
Coordinates: 49.7557, 6.6394 · from Trier
Reference instant: 1818-05-05T11:06:32.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.95° · The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: John Jabez Edwin Mayall · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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