Nise da Silveira

Psychologist and artist · Brazil · 1905–1999

Aquarius 26.3° · born February 15, 1905
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The Sun and Jupiter sit 0.1° from an exact sextile — near enough that the tradition reads identity and expansion as a single working part. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Aquarius, but precisely: 26.3°, third decan, 20°–30°, under Venus in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The personal registers

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Aquarius (9.6°), Venus in Aries (12.9°), Mars in Scorpio (14.8°): a mind at home in argument and pattern, taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate, drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

The Sun to Jupiter is the closest call of the day, a sextile within 0.1°. A sextile pays out only on effort; the scheme calls it opportunity rather than gift. Behind it, Jupiter sextile Saturn at 2.4°, and the Sun conjunction Saturn at 2.5° — 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 day-stable angles form no closed figure. Nothing funnels; each aspect is its own negotiation, which the tradition reads as a chart of separate treaties rather than one campaign.

The classical map

The classical table has four entries for this chart. The Sun in Aquarius at 26.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Venus in Aries at 12.9° is in detriment; Mars in Scorpio at 14.8° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Aquarius at 23.8° is in domicile. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in air, 2 in fire, 2 in water, 1 in earth by element, 4 fixed, 4 cardinal, 1 mutable by modality. Air signs carry exchange in the scheme — comparison, argument, the sentence that makes the situation legible. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.4° between one midnight and the next. Half the day belongs to each sign, and the split falls at an unrecorded hour — so this page holds the Moon as a genuine unknown.

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

Source article: Nise da Silveira · revision 1341030247
Wikidata: Q9050242 · revision 2522616939
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T19:05:54.525Z
Birth date: 1905-02-15 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Maceió, Brazil · Q168888
Coordinates: -9.6658, -35.7350 · from Maceió
Reference instant: 1905-02-15T14:22:52.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.41° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Gemini into Cancer during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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