Paul Newman

Television actor and racing automobile driver · United States · 1925–2008

Aquarius 6.3° · born January 26, 1925
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The chart's headline is a sextile: Mercury and Saturn within 0.1°, thinking wired to structure. A sextile pays out only on effort; the scheme calls it opportunity rather than gift.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun sits at 6.3° Aquarius — the first decan, 0°–10°, which the tradition sub-rules by Saturn. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Aquarius and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

The fast planets

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Capricorn (13.6°), Venus in Capricorn (14.7°), Mars in Aries (23.8°): a mind that trusts the measured and the checked, taste for the substantial and the lasting, drive that ignites on contact.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Mercury to Saturn, a sextile with 0.1° of slack. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted. Behind it, Venus sextile Saturn at 1.0°, and Mercury conjunction Venus at 1.1° — 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 Moon stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.

The classical map

The classical table has three entries for this chart. The Sun in Aquarius at 6.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Aries at 23.8° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Capricorn at 8.9° 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

Among the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 3 earth, 3 water, 2 fire, 1 air; by modality, 5 cardinal, 3 fixed, 1 mutable. 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 Aquarius into Pisces during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.4° between one midnight and the next. Which of the two it was depends entirely on the hour, and the hour is not recorded. Rather than pick the likelier half, the reading leaves the Moon open.

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

Source article: Paul Newman · revision 1366057247
Wikidata: Q41871 · revision 2518377270
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1925-01-26 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Shaker Heights, United States · Q1065497
Coordinates: 41.4764, -81.5517 · from Shaker Heights
Reference instant: 1925-01-26T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.36° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown authorUnknown author, dedicated to Bettmann Archive · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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