Le Corbusier

Architect and painter · Switzerland · 1887–1965

Libra 12.9° · born October 6, 1887
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day. Mercury crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

0.0° separates the Sun and Uranus from an exact conjunction; at that range identity and disruption read as one mechanism. The tradition stops reading a conjunction as two things. It is one appetite with two names, and it moves together or not at all.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At noon on that date the Sun stood at 12.9° Libra, inside the second decan (10°–20°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Saturn. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

The personal registers

Day to day the chart speaks through Venus in Virgo (21.1°), Mars in Leo (25.2°): attraction that grows by reliability, effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

Closest first: the Sun to Uranus, a conjunction with 0.0° of slack. A conjunction is the least negotiable aspect in the scheme — no distance to argue across, so the pair arrives as a single instinct. Behind it, Saturn sextile Pluto at 0.1°, and Jupiter square Saturn at 4.2° — 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.

The standing structure

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

Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. The Sun in Libra at 12.9° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Virgo at 21.1° is in fall; Saturn in Leo at 4.9° 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

Tallied where the signs are certain — 8 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives air 3, earth 2, fire 2, water 1, and fixed 4, cardinal 2, mutable 2 across the modes. Air weights a chart toward language and pattern — the impulse to name a thing before deciding how to feel about it. Mercury crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day, so its sign is left open. Venus, 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 Taurus into Gemini during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.1° 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: Le Corbusier · revision 1366100514
Wikidata: Q4724 · revision 2522857661
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1887-10-06 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland · Q140600977
Coordinates: 47.1020, 6.8266 · from Q140600977
Reference instant: 1887-10-06T11:30:14.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.08° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day.
Open signs: Mercury crossed from Libra into Scorpio during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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