Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights advocate and writer · United States · 1929–1968

Capricorn 25.1° · born January 15, 1929
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Mutable signs carry five of the ten placements whose signs are settled — the broadest certain weighting in the chart. The mutable signs hand one season to the next; a chart weighted there is built for transitions.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Capricorn, but precisely: 25.1°, third decan, 20°–30°, under Mercury in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 11.7° Aquarius, Venus was at 10.5° Pisces, Mars was at 21.9° Gemini. Read together: a mind at home in argument and pattern; taste tuned to mood and undertow; drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

Jupiter to Neptune is the closest call of the day, a trine within 0.3°. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned. Behind it, Mars opposition Saturn at 3.4°, and Saturn trine Neptune at 5.5° — 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.

Figures in the geometry

Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune close a triangle of trines. The closed triangle is the scheme’s picture of flow — and its warning that flow, unspent, stays private. 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 Pisces at 10.5° 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 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: earth 3, water 3, air 2, fire 2 across the elements, and mutable 5, cardinal 3, fixed 2 across the modalities. Mars, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Pisces for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.0° 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 19.1°.

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

Source article: Martin Luther King Jr. · revision 1364606482
Wikidata: Q8027 · revision 2520284352
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1929-01-15 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Atlanta, United States · Q23556
Coordinates: 33.7544, -84.3897 · from Atlanta
Reference instant: 1929-01-15T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.98° · The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Yoichi Okamoto · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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