People · sourced chart
Paul Robeson
Singer and lawyer · United States · 1898–1976
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
The Sun stands at 19.9° Aries, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. 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 Princeton—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
Measured rather than labelled, the Sun holds 19.9° Aries: the second decan, whose classical sub-ruler is the Sun. A fire sign, read here in its second face.
The fast planets
For the fast movers, Mercury was at 9.2° Taurus, Venus was at 3.0° Taurus, Mars was at 15.2° Pisces. Read together: a mind that trusts the measured and the checked; taste for the substantial and the lasting; drive that moves on certainty and current.
The angles that hold
Start where the chart is tightest — the Sun sextile Neptune, 0.3° of separation. A sixth of the circle is close enough for cooperation and far enough that it stays optional. Behind it, Jupiter sextile Uranus at 0.4°, and Saturn opposition Pluto at 1.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.
Figures in the geometry
Saturn opposes Pluto while both square Mars. The t-square is the figure the old texts trusted for output: friction with a fixed address. 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
Two planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Sun in Aries at 19.9° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Taurus at 3.0° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.
The shape of the whole
Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 3 in fire, 3 in air, 2 in earth, 1 in water by element, 5 mutable, 2 cardinal, 2 fixed by modality. Fire weights a chart toward initiative — starting, asserting, spending energy to find out what happens. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus 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 Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.6° between one midnight and the next. Without a recorded hour there is no honest way to say which side it was on, so this reading does not say. The Moon sign is a real question here, not a rounding error, and it needs a birth time nobody has published.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Paul Robeson · revision 1362973360
- Wikidata
- Q273233 · revision 2518316597
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1898-04-09 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Princeton, United States · Q138518
- Coordinates
- 40.3522, -74.6569 · from Princeton
- Reference instant
- 1898-04-09T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 14.56° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · creator credit too long to render legibly
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