Luciano Pavarotti

Opera singer and film actor · Italy · 1935–2007

Libra 18.2° · born October 12, 1935
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, the Sun holds a sextile to Mars at 0.1° — close enough to weld identity to drive. A sextile pays out only on effort; the scheme calls it opportunity rather than gift.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

18.2° of Libra is the Sun's exact seat — second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Saturn in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

The personal registers

The personal planets sit Venus at 9.5° Virgo, Mars at 18.1° Sagittarius. Venus in a earth sign reads as attraction that grows by reliability; Mars in a fire sign reads as effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

Saturn and Uranus hold the closest angle here — a sextile, 0.0° wide. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted. Behind it, the Sun sextile Mars at 0.1°, and Mars square Neptune at 2.5° — 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

Mercury opposes Uranus while both square Pluto. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet. 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

The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags two placements in this chart. The Sun in Libra at 18.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Virgo at 9.5° is in fall. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Among the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 3 earth, 3 water, 2 fire, 1 air; by modality, 4 mutable, 3 cardinal, 2 fixed. Mercury crossed from Scorpio into Libra during that day, so its sign is left open. Mercury, Saturn and Uranus were retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Aries for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 15.1° 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 21.9°.

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

Source article: Luciano Pavarotti · revision 1362093898
Wikidata: Q37615 · revision 2518469489
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1935-10-12 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Modena, Italy · Q279
Coordinates: 44.6458, 10.9257 · from Modena
Reference instant: 1935-10-12T11:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 15.09° · The Moon remained in Aries throughout that civil day.
Open signs: Mercury crossed from Scorpio into Libra during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
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