Mahmoud Darwish

Poet and songwriter · Mandatory Palestine · 1941–2008

Pisces 22.4° · born March 13, 1941
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

0.5° separates Venus and Jupiter from an exact sextile; at that range taste and expansion read as one mechanism. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Al-Birwa—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 22.4° Pisces, inside the third decan (20°–30°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Mars. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Aquarius (29.0°), Venus in Pisces (13.0°), Mars in Capricorn (16.1°): thought that travels by comparison, attraction that works by atmosphere, effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Venus and Jupiter — a sextile holding at 0.5°. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted. Behind it, the Sun sextile Uranus at 0.5°, and Venus sextile Saturn at 1.7° — 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

Pluto 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 dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks two placements here. Venus in Pisces at 13.0° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mars in Capricorn at 16.1° is in exaltation. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements earth 6, water 2, air 1, fire 1; modalities fixed 5, mutable 4, cardinal 1. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Virgo for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.8° 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 20.8°.

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

Source article: Mahmoud Darwish · revision 1365685773
Wikidata: Q207720 · revision 2516634258
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1941-03-13 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Al-Birwa, Mandatory Palestine · Q2914542
Coordinates: 32.9052, 35.1802 · from Al-Birwa
Reference instant: 1941-03-13T09:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.80° · The Moon remained in Virgo throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Syrian photographer working for the Syrian News Agency (SANA) · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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