Paul Verlaine

Poet · France · 1844–1896

Aries 9.9° · born March 30, 1844
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

Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Aries — the Sun, Mercury, Uranus 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 Metz—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

Aries, but precisely: 9.9°, first decan, 0°–10°, under Mars 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 Aries (1.1°), Venus in Taurus (20.6°), Mars in Taurus (18.3°): a mind that decides at speaking speed, taste for the substantial and the lasting, drive that grinds rather than flares.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Neptune and Pluto: 0.7° from an exact sextile. A sixth of the circle is close enough for cooperation and far enough that it stays optional. Behind it, Mars sextile Jupiter at 0.9°, and Mercury conjunction Uranus at 1.5° — 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.

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

The classical table has five entries for this chart. The Sun in Aries at 9.9° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Taurus at 20.6° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Taurus at 18.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Pisces at 17.4° is in domicile; Saturn in Aquarius at 5.5° is in domicile. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 5 fire, 2 earth, 2 air, 1 water; by modality, 5 fixed, 4 cardinal, 1 mutable. All ten bodies ran direct that day — a chart with no apparent reversals anywhere in it.

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. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 18.9°.

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

Source article: Paul Verlaine · revision 1353910979
Wikidata: Q755 · revision 2517820987
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1844-03-30 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Metz, France · Q22690
Coordinates: 49.1197, 6.1769 · from Metz
Reference instant: 1844-03-30T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.59° · The Moon remained in Leo throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Otto Wegener · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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