Pablo Picasso

Painter and costume designer · Spain · 1881–1973

Scorpio 2.2° · born October 25, 1881
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Four of the nine placements whose signs are settled stand in Taurus — Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The placements whose signs could change with an unknown hour are not counted. A cluster that size becomes the section the rest of the chart plays around.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Málaga—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 2.2° Scorpio. That falls in the first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by Mars in the classical scheme — a water sign read through a fixed season.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Scorpio (24.1°), Venus in Libra (4.0°), Mars in Cancer (12.2°): a mind that absorbs before it argues, taste led by wit and proportion, drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — Mercury opposition Jupiter, 0.5° of separation. Oppositions are read as full-moon geometry — maximum visibility between two needs that share one spine. Behind it, Uranus trine Neptune at 1.5°, and Mars sextile Saturn at 2.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These angles were checked through every hour of that civil day and survive throughout, which is why an unrecorded hour does not disturb them.

The standing structure

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

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, two sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Venus in Libra at 4.0° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Cancer at 12.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 5 earth, 3 water, 1 air by element and 6 fixed, 2 cardinal, 1 mutable by mode. 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. Jupiter, Saturn, 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 is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.5° between one midnight and the next. The hour would decide it; no hour was recorded. The reading keeps the question open rather than flipping a coin dressed as astrology.

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

Source article: Pablo Picasso · revision 1365390373
Wikidata: Q5593 · revision 2522851527
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1881-10-25 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Málaga, Spain · Q8851
Coordinates: 36.7167, -4.4167 · from Málaga
Reference instant: 1881-10-25T12:14:44.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.54° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Argentina. Revista Vea y Lea · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Something wrong here?Ask us to correct or remove it.