People · sourced chart
Maryam Mirzakhani
Mathematician and university teacher · Iran · 1977–2017
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
Tightest of all, Venus holds a opposition to Pluto at 0.3° — close enough to weld taste to depth. An opposition is the tradition’s tug of war. Both ends are real, and the work is holding them at once rather than picking a winner.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Tehran—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
At the noon reference the Sun sits 21.4° into Taurus — the third decan, which the old scheme hands to Saturn. Same sign, different decan, different chart.
Closer to the ground
Mercury holds 4.8° Taurus, Venus holds 12.1° Aries, Mars holds 11.3° Aries — in the old shorthand, thought with its feet on the ground; attraction declared rather than implied; effort spent in bursts and openings.
The angles that hold
The tightest geometry in the chart puts Venus directly across the wheel from Pluto, 0.3° off exact. The scheme reads an opposition as a axis to walk, not a fight to win: the chart keeps both ends lit. Behind it, Mars trine Saturn at 0.5°, and Mars opposition Pluto at 0.6° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.
Figures in the geometry
Venus, Saturn, Neptune close a triangle of trines. Three trines close into a circuit the tradition calls a grand trine — ease so complete it can idle unnoticed for years. Mercury opposes Uranus while both square Saturn. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet.
The classical map
The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags four placements in this chart. Venus in Aries at 12.1° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Aries at 11.3° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Gemini at 8.3° is in detriment; Saturn in Leo at 10.8° is in detriment. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.
The shape of the whole
Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 fire, 2 earth, 2 water, 2 air; by modality, 4 fixed, 3 mutable, 3 cardinal. Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were 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 Pisces for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.6° 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 17.1°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Maryam Mirzakhani · revision 1365875302
- Wikidata
- Q1771279 · revision 2515912717
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1977-05-12 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Tehran, Iran · Q3616
- Coordinates
- 35.6889, 51.3897 · from Tehran
- Reference instant
- 1977-05-12T07:30:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 12.57° · The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · licence "CC BY-SA 2.0 de" is outside the accepted set (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA)
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