Qiu Jin

Writer and women's rights activist · People's Republic of China · 1875–1907

Scorpio 15.4° · born November 8, 1875
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

Fixed signs carry eight of the nine placements whose signs are settled — the broadest certain weighting in the chart. The fixed signs hold what the cardinal signs start; a chart weighted there finishes its sentences.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Scorpio, but precisely: 15.4°, second decan, 10°–20°, under Jupiter 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 Libra (29.4°), Venus in Scorpio (27.1°), Mars in Aquarius (10.3°): a mind at home in argument and pattern, taste tuned to mood and undertow, drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Saturn directly across the wheel from Uranus, 0.3° off exact. An opposition puts two needs on opposite shores of the same water. Neither drowns; neither gets the whole beach. Behind it, Mercury opposition Neptune at 1.9°, and the Sun conjunction Jupiter at 2.5° — 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

Saturn opposes Uranus 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 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 two entries for this chart. Venus in Scorpio at 27.1° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Aquarius at 19.6° 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

Counting only the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 3 water, 3 air, 2 earth, 1 fire by element and 8 fixed, 1 cardinal by modality. Water reads the room before the room speaks — atmosphere first, analysis later. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. Mercury changed direction during the day, so its motion is left open.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.1° 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: Qiu Jin · revision 1364792603
Wikidata: Q465324 · revision 2516528957
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1875-11-08 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Xiamen, People's Republic of China · Q68744
Coordinates: 24.4797, 118.0819 · from Xiamen
Reference instant: 1875-11-08T03:54:17.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.11° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown, photographed in Qing Dynasty china · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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