Lina Bo Bardi

Architect and draftsperson · Italy · 1914–1992

Sagittarius 12.5° · born December 5, 1914
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 12.7° Cancer, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Rome—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 12.5° Sagittarius. That falls in the second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Mars in the classical scheme — a fire sign read through a mutable season.

The fast planets

Mercury holds 26.0° Scorpio, Venus holds 0.3° Sagittarius, Mars holds 17.5° Sagittarius — in the old shorthand, a mind that absorbs before it argues; taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate; drive that ignites on contact.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — Venus trine Neptune, 0.1° of separation. The scheme reads trines as water finding its level: effortless, and invisible to the person living it. Behind it, Mars sextile Jupiter at 0.1°, and Saturn conjunction Pluto at 1.4° — 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 Moon stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.

The classical map

Two planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Moon in Cancer at 12.7° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Cancer at 0.1° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 fire, 4 water, 2 air; by modality, 4 fixed, 3 mutable, 3 cardinal. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Venus, 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.4° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 12.7°.

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

Source article: Lina Bo Bardi · revision 1361351524
Wikidata: Q272400 · revision 2521472944
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1914-12-05 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Rome, Italy · Q220
Coordinates: 41.8931, 12.4828 · from Rome
Reference instant: 1914-12-05T11:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.40° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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