Maya Angelou

Politician and comedian · United States · 1928–2014

Aries 14.7° · born April 4, 1928
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 14.7° 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 St. Louis—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

At noon on that date the Sun stood at 14.7° Aries, inside the second decan (10°–20°), whose traditional sub-ruler is the Sun. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 20.3° Pisces, Venus was at 21.6° Pisces, Mars was at 27.8° Aquarius. Read together: thought steeped in tone and memory; attraction that works by atmosphere; effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than the Sun and Pluto: 0.3° from an exact square. A square is the tradition’s engine room: two drives at cross purposes, and the friction is the horsepower. Behind it, Jupiter square Pluto at 1.1°, and Mars opposition Neptune at 1.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.

The standing structure

The Moon makes no major aspect that survives the day; the old reading gives such a planet autonomy — it acts alone, sometimes loudly.

The classical map

The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks three placements here. The Sun in Aries at 14.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mercury in Pisces at 20.3° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Pisces at 21.6° is in exaltation. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 5 fire, 3 water, 2 air; by modality, 5 cardinal, 3 mutable, 2 fixed. A fire-weighted chart runs hot at the start line — initiative is its native language. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Saturn and Neptune 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 Libra for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.1° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 10.3°.

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

Source article: Maya Angelou · revision 1363740530
Wikidata: Q19526 · revision 2518976554
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1928-04-04 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: St. Louis, United States · Q38022
Coordinates: 38.6264, -90.1994 · from St. Louis
Reference instant: 1928-04-04T18:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.12° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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