People · sourced chart
Mary Oliver
Poet · United States · 1935–2019
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
Mars and Pluto sit 0.8° from an exact trine — near enough that the tradition reads drive and depth as a single working part. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Maple Heights—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 17.0° Virgo. That falls in the second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Saturn in the classical scheme — a earth sign read through a mutable season.
Closer to the ground
Closer in, Mercury stands at 10.5° Libra; Venus stands at 13.3° Virgo; Mars stands at 26.1° Scorpio. The tradition reads a mind at home in argument and pattern from Mercury, taste for the substantial and the lasting from Venus, drive that moves on certainty and current from Mars.
The angles that hold
Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Mars and Pluto: 0.8° from an exact trine. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned. Behind it, Saturn sextile Uranus at 0.9°, and Venus conjunction Neptune at 1.1° — 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.
Figures in the geometry
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 two entries for this chart. Venus in Virgo at 13.3° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Scorpio at 26.1° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.
The shape of the whole
Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 earth, 4 water, 2 air by element and 4 mutable, 4 fixed, 2 cardinal by modality. Earth signs hold the scheme’s slow end, where results are measured in what survives rather than what starts. No settled placement falls in fire — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Venus, Saturn and Uranus were retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Aquarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.9° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 16.1°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Mary Oliver · revision 1364022704
- Wikidata
- Q454836 · revision 2512200451
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1935-09-10 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Maple Heights, United States · Q1007064
- Coordinates
- 41.4122, -81.5594 · from Maple Heights
- Reference instant
- 1935-09-10T16:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 14.88° · The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · no image claim on the Wikidata entity
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