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Marguerite Duras
Writer and film director · Nguyen dynasty · 1914–1996
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 Sun stands at 13.6° Aries, 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 Gia Định—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 13.6° Aries. That falls in the second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by the Sun in the classical scheme — a fire sign read through a cardinal season.
The personal registers
Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Pisces (16.1°), Venus in Aries (26.3°), Mars in Cancer (17.5°): a mind that absorbs before it argues, taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate, drive that moves on certainty and current.
The angles that hold
The tightest geometry in the chart puts the Sun a sixth of the circle apart from Saturn, 0.0° off exact. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted. Behind it, Venus square Neptune at 0.9°, and Mercury trine Mars at 1.4° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.
The standing structure
The day-stable angles form no closed figure. Nothing funnels; each aspect is its own negotiation, which the tradition reads as a chart of separate treaties rather than one campaign.
The classical map
Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, five sit in a sign it has an opinion about. The Sun in Aries at 13.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; the Moon in Cancer at 18.3° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mercury in Pisces at 16.1° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Aries at 26.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Cancer at 17.5° is in fall. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.
The shape of the whole
Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in water, 4 in air, 2 in fire by element, 5 cardinal, 3 mutable, 2 fixed by modality. Water weights a chart toward the felt and the remembered — information that arrives as atmosphere before it arrives as words. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Neptune was 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 Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.2° 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 18.3°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Marguerite Duras · revision 1364772008
- Wikidata
- Q153248 · revision 2522061981
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1914-04-04 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Gia Định, Nguyen dynasty · Q2681546
- Coordinates
- 10.8035, 106.6966 · from Gia Định
- Reference instant
- 1914-04-04T05:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 13.16° · 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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