Käthe Kollwitz

Printmaker and autobiographer · Prussia · 1867–1945

Cancer 15.8° · born July 8, 1867
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, the Sun holds a sextile to Pluto at 0.1° — close enough to weld identity to depth. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At the noon reference the Sun sits 15.8° into Cancer — the second decan, which the old scheme hands to Mars. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 11.8° Leo, Venus was at 24.5° Gemini, Mars was at 9.4° Virgo. Read together: thought that arrives already in motion; attraction that begins as conversation; effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

Closest first: the Sun to Pluto, a sextile with 0.1° of slack. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted. Behind it, Mars sextile Uranus at 0.4°, and the Sun square Neptune at 0.7° — 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.

Figures in the geometry

Saturn opposes Pluto while both square Mercury. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment. Venus 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 one placement here. Jupiter in Pisces at 7.3° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: water 4, air 2, fire 2, earth 2 across the elements, and cardinal 4, fixed 3, mutable 3 across the modalities. Water weights a chart toward the felt and the remembered — information that arrives as atmosphere before it arrives as words. Jupiter and Saturn 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 Libra for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.8° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 12.3°.

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

Source article: Käthe Kollwitz · revision 1365814446
Wikidata: Q142472 · revision 2518979544
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1867-07-08 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Königsberg, Prussia · Q4120832
Coordinates: 54.7115, 20.5093 · from Königsberg
Reference instant: 1867-07-08T10:38:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.83° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Hugo Erfurth · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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