Mahalia Jackson

Musician · United States · 1911–1972

Scorpio 2.2° · born October 26, 1911
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Venus and Jupiter sit 0.0° from an exact sextile — near enough that the tradition reads taste and expansion as a single working part. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in New Orleans—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 2.2° Scorpio. That falls in the first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by Mars in the classical scheme — a water sign read through a fixed season.

The personal registers

Mercury holds 4.1° Scorpio, Venus holds 20.2° Virgo, Mars holds 10.4° Gemini — in the old shorthand, a mind that absorbs before it argues; taste for the substantial and the lasting; drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Venus and Jupiter — a sextile holding at 0.0°. A sextile is an offer rather than a given: available when it is reached for, quiet when it is not. Behind it, Uranus opposition Neptune at 1.8°, and the Sun conjunction Mercury at 1.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These angles were checked through every hour of that civil day and survive throughout, which is why an unrecorded hour does not disturb them.

What the angles build

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

The classical table has one entry for this chart. Venus in Virgo at 20.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 water, 3 earth, 2 air, 1 fire by element and 4 fixed, 4 mutable, 2 cardinal by mode. Water signs hold memory in the scheme, where nothing is quite finished and little is genuinely forgotten. Mars, Saturn and Pluto 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 Sagittarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° between midnight and midnight. The sign survives the missing hour; the degree does not, and is given as a reference rather than a fact. At the noon reference it stands at 23.8°.

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

Source article: Mahalia Jackson · revision 1364874268
Wikidata: Q206466 · revision 2518849726
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1911-10-26 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: New Orleans, United States · Q34404
Coordinates: 29.9761, -90.0783 · from New Orleans
Reference instant: 1911-10-26T18:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.90° · The Moon remained in Sagittarius throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Carl Van Vechten · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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