Paramahansa Yogananda

Philosopher · India · 1893–1952

Capricorn 15.2° · born January 5, 1893
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, Venus holds a trine to Jupiter at 0.5° — close enough to weld taste to expansion. A trine runs downhill — the talent that never announces itself because it never had to.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

15.2° of Capricorn is the Sun's exact seat — second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Venus in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Sagittarius (22.9°), Venus in Sagittarius (16.7°), Mars in Aries (5.5°): thought that arrives already in motion, attraction declared rather than implied, effort spent in bursts and openings.

The angles that hold

Venus to Jupiter is the closest call of the day, a trine within 0.5°. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, Neptune conjunction Pluto at 0.8°, and the Sun square Jupiter at 1.0° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

The standing structure

Jupiter opposes Saturn while both square the Sun. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet. 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. Mercury in Sagittarius at 22.9° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Aries at 5.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Libra at 12.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 5 in fire, 3 in air, 1 in earth, 1 in water by element, 4 cardinal, 4 mutable, 2 fixed by modality. 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Leo for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.6° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 20.8°.

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

Source article: Paramahansa Yogananda · revision 1364010745
Wikidata: Q312549 · revision 2511885549
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1893-01-05 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Gorakhpur, India · Q5584396
Coordinates: 26.7611, 83.3667 · from Gorakhpur
Reference instant: 1893-01-05T06:38:50.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.64° · The Moon remained in Leo throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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