Keith Haring

Painter and writer · United States · 1958–1990

Taurus 13.7° · born May 4, 1958
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Four of the nine placements whose signs are settled fall in fixed signs, the widest weighting the unknown hour leaves certain. Fixed signs hold the middle of their seasons, and a fixed-heavy chart is read as one that consolidates and does not easily let go.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's exact place is 13.7° Taurus. That falls in the second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Mercury in the classical scheme — a earth sign read through a fixed season.

The fast planets

The personal planets sit Mercury at 20.8° Aries, Venus at 29.1° Pisces, Mars at 5.6° Pisces. Mercury in a fire sign reads as a mind that decides at speaking speed; Venus in a water sign reads as taste tuned to mood and undertow; Mars in a water sign reads as drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Jupiter a sixth of the circle apart from Saturn, 0.4° off exact. A sixth of the circle is close enough for cooperation and far enough that it stays optional. Behind it, Mars trine Neptune at 2.4°, and Neptune sextile Pluto at 3.3° — 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, one sits in a sign it has an opinion about. Venus in Pisces at 29.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Among the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 fire, 3 water, 1 earth, 1 air; by modality, 4 fixed, 3 mutable, 2 cardinal. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.6° between one midnight and the next. A birth time would settle it in a second; there isn’t one. So the Moon stays unnamed here — the alternative is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.

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

Source article: Keith Haring · revision 1364546642
Wikidata: Q485635 · revision 2521414893
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1958-05-04 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Reading, United States · Q237896
Coordinates: 40.3417, -75.9261 · from Reading
Reference instant: 1958-05-04T16:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.62° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Rob Bogaerts (Anefo) · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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