Michael Faraday

Physicist and writer · United Kingdom · 1791–1867

Virgo 29.4° · born September 22, 1791
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 22.1° Cancer, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. 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 Newington Butts—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 29.4° Virgo, inside the third decan (20°–30°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Venus. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

The personal registers

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Libra (20.2°), Venus in Scorpio (3.3°), Mars in Leo (7.5°): thought that travels by comparison, attraction that works by atmosphere, effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

Mercury to Pluto is the closest call of the day, a trine within 0.0°. The scheme reads trines as water finding its level: effortless, and invisible to the person living it. Behind it, Saturn trine Uranus at 0.6°, and Mars sextile Jupiter at 1.7° — 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.

What the angles build

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

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. The Moon in Cancer at 22.1° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Venus in Scorpio at 3.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Aries at 16.7° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives air 4, fire 3, water 2, earth 1, and cardinal 5, fixed 4, mutable 1 across the modes. Air runs on comparison and connection — the pattern noticed first, the feeling filed second. Saturn and Pluto were retrograde. Mercury changed direction during the day, so its motion is left open.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.3° 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 22.1°.

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

Source article: Michael Faraday · revision 1366069530
Wikidata: Q8750 · revision 2518629639
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1791-09-22 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Newington Butts, United Kingdom · Q15030884
Coordinates: 51.4928, -0.1011 · from Newington Butts
Reference instant: 1791-09-22T12:01:15.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.35° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Thomas Phillips · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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