Maria Callas

Opera singer and actor · United States · 1923–1977

Sagittarius 9.5° · born December 2, 1923
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Virgo into Libra during that day. Venus crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The chart's headline is a conjunction: Mars and Saturn within 0.7°, drive wired to structure. The tradition stops reading a conjunction as two things. It is one appetite with two names, and it moves together or not at all.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun sits at 9.5° Sagittarius — the first decan, 0°–10°, which the tradition sub-rules by Jupiter. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Sagittarius and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

The personal registers

Mercury holds 18.7° Sagittarius, Mars holds 29.1° Libra — in the old shorthand, a mind that decides at speaking speed; drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Mars and Saturn — a conjunction holding at 0.7°. The tradition stops reading a conjunction as two things. It is one appetite with two names, and it moves together or not at all. Behind it, Venus sextile Mars at 1.4°, and Mercury trine Neptune at 1.6° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

The standing structure

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

Four planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. Mercury in Sagittarius at 18.7° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Libra at 29.1° is in detriment; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 1.8° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Libra at 28.4° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 8 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: fire 4, air 2, water 2 across the elements, and mutable 4, cardinal 3, fixed 1 across the modalities. Venus crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day, so its sign is left open. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Virgo into Libra during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.9° between one midnight and the next. The hour would decide it; no hour was recorded. The reading keeps the question open rather than flipping a coin dressed as astrology.

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

Source article: Maria Callas · revision 1366147144
Wikidata: Q128297 · revision 2522497217
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1923-12-02 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: New York City, United States · Q60
Coordinates: 40.7128, -74.0061 · from New York City
Reference instant: 1923-12-02T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.88° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Virgo into Libra during that day.
Open signs: Venus crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: CBS Television · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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