People · sourced chart
Leonora Carrington
Painter and novelist · United Kingdom · 1917–2011
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Virgo into Libra 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 stand in Aries — the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars. The placements whose signs could change with an unknown hour are not counted. A cluster that size becomes the section the rest of the chart plays around.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Clayton-le-Woods—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 16.1° Aries, inside the second decan (10°–20°), whose traditional sub-ruler is the Sun. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.
The fast planets
Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Aries (24.5°), Venus in Aries (11.0°), Mars in Aries (8.3°): thought that arrives already in motion, attraction declared rather than implied, effort spent in bursts and openings.
The angles that hold
The tightest geometry in the chart puts Mercury at right angles from Saturn, 0.7° off exact. Right angles are where the scheme puts its grit. A square asks two functions to work in a mode neither would have chosen. Behind it, Mercury sextile Uranus at 1.8°, and Venus conjunction Mars at 2.6° — 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.
The standing structure
Jupiter 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, four placements stand out. The Sun in Aries at 16.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Aries at 11.0° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Aries at 8.3° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Cancer at 23.8° is in detriment. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.
The shape of the whole
Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements fire 5, water 2, earth 1, air 1; modalities cardinal 6, fixed 3. Neptune was retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.
The Moon is genuinely open
The Moon crossed from Virgo into Libra during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.4° 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
- Leonora Carrington · revision 1366116105
- Wikidata
- Q233207 · revision 2514870832
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1917-04-06 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Clayton-le-Woods, United Kingdom · Q3243751
- Coordinates
- 53.6971, -2.6603 · from Clayton-le-Woods
- Reference instant
- 1917-04-06T12:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 12.44° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Virgo into Libra during that day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · no image claim on the Wikidata entity
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