Knute Rockne

American football player and writer · Norway · 1888–1931

Pisces 14.3° · born March 4, 1888
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

Tightest of all, Mars holds a square to Saturn at 0.0° — close enough to weld drive to structure. Right angles are where the scheme puts its grit. A square asks two functions to work in a mode neither would have chosen.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Voss Municipality—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 14.3° into Pisces — the second decan, which the old scheme hands to the Moon. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 13.0° Pisces, Venus was at 11.4° Aquarius, Mars was at 0.2° Scorpio. Read together: thought steeped in tone and memory; attraction that begins as conversation; effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Mars and Saturn — a square holding at 0.0°. Nothing in a square flows; everything in it works. The old texts kept squares for the charts they respected. Behind it, the Sun conjunction Mercury at 1.4°, and Saturn sextile Neptune at 2.8° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

What the angles build

No closed figure — no grand trine, t-square, or grand cross — holds among the day-stable angles. The chart distributes its tension pair by pair rather than through one standing structure.

The classical map

The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags four placements in this chart. Mercury in Pisces at 13.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Scorpio at 0.2° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 5.9° is in domicile; Saturn in Leo at 0.2° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: water 3, air 3, fire 2, earth 1 across the elements, and mutable 4, fixed 4, cardinal 1 across the modalities. Water signs hold memory in the scheme, where nothing is quite finished and little is genuinely forgotten. Mercury, Saturn and Uranus were retrograde. Mars changed direction during the day, so its motion is left open.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.1° between one midnight and the next. Without a recorded hour there is no honest way to say which side it was on, so this reading does not say. The Moon sign is a real question here, not a rounding error, and it needs a birth time nobody has published.

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

Source article: Knute Rockne · revision 1361038932
Wikidata: Q1770885 · revision 2521747392
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1888-03-04 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Voss Municipality, Norway · Q109031
Coordinates: 60.7025, 6.4231 · from Voss Municipality
Reference instant: 1888-03-04T11:06:32.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.10° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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