Peter Tosh

Guitarist · Jamaica · 1944–1987

Libra 26.2° · born October 19, 1944
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

The Sun and Mercury sit 0.8° from an exact conjunction — near enough that the tradition reads identity and thinking as a single working part. A conjunction is the least negotiable aspect in the scheme — no distance to argue across, so the pair arrives as a single instinct.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Grange Hill—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 26.2° Libra. That falls in the third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Mercury in the classical scheme — a air sign read through a cardinal season.

The fast planets

Closer in, Mercury stands at 25.4° Libra; Venus stands at 26.3° Scorpio; Mars stands at 4.2° Scorpio. The tradition reads a mind at home in argument and pattern from Mercury, taste tuned to mood and undertow from Venus, drive that moves on certainty and current from Mars.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — the Sun conjunction Mercury, 0.8° of separation. A conjunction is the least negotiable aspect in the scheme — no distance to argue across, so the pair arrives as a single instinct. Behind it, Uranus sextile Pluto at 2.6°, and Jupiter square Uranus at 5.3° — 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 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 Libra at 26.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Scorpio at 26.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Scorpio at 4.2° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Virgo at 18.0° is in detriment; Saturn in Cancer at 10.8° is in detriment. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements air 4, water 3, earth 1, fire 1; modalities cardinal 4, fixed 3, mutable 2. Uranus was retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.3° 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: Peter Tosh · revision 1356812736
Wikidata: Q273049 · revision 2517614355
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1944-10-19 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Grange Hill, Jamaica · Q1543067
Coordinates: 18.3103, -78.1839 · from Grange Hill
Reference instant: 1944-10-19T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.35° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: TimDuncan · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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