Luchino Visconti

Film director and screenwriter · Italy · 1906–1976

Scorpio 9.1° · born November 2, 1906
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 23.1° Taurus, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. 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 Milan—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

9.1° of Scorpio is the Sun's exact seat — first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by Mars in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Sagittarius (0.8°), Venus in Sagittarius (13.8°), Mars in Libra (2.0°): thought that arrives already in motion, attraction declared rather than implied, effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — the Sun trine Saturn, 0.7° of separation. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, Mercury sextile Mars at 1.2°, and Jupiter conjunction Neptune at 1.5° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.

What the angles build

the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn close a triangle of trines. The closed triangle is the scheme’s picture of flow — and its warning that flow, unspent, stays private. The Moon 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 Moon in Taurus at 23.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mercury in Sagittarius at 0.8° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Libra at 2.0° is in detriment; Jupiter in Cancer at 11.1° is in exaltation. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in water, 2 in earth, 2 in fire, 2 in air by element, 4 mutable, 4 cardinal, 2 fixed by modality. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the backward drift a body appears to make as the Earth overtakes it, read in the scheme as a function that reviews before it releases.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Taurus for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.0° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 23.1°.

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

Source article: Luchino Visconti · revision 1361011886
Wikidata: Q13888 · revision 2520679798
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1906-11-02 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Milan, Italy · Q490
Coordinates: 45.4669, 9.1900 · from Milan
Reference instant: 1906-11-02T11:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.99° · The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Marisa Rastellini (Mondadori Publisher) · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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