Rabindranath Tagore

Poet and composer · India · 1861–1941

Taurus 16.6° · born May 7, 1861
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Aries throughout that civil day. Mercury crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Four of the nine placements whose signs are settled fall in fixed signs, the widest weighting the unknown hour leaves certain. Fixed signs hold the middle of their seasons, and a fixed-heavy chart is read as one that consolidates and does not easily let go.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Kolkata—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 16.6° Taurus. That falls in the second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Mercury in the classical scheme — a earth sign read through a fixed season.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts the Sun in the same degree of the zodiac from Venus, 1.2° off exact. 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, the Sun square Jupiter at 1.3°, and Mercury trine Saturn at 2.2° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

The classical map

The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks one placement here. Venus in Taurus at 15.4° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 earth, 3 fire, 2 air by element and 4 fixed, 3 mutable, 2 cardinal by modality. Earth weights a chart toward the material and the durable — what can be built, kept, and relied on. Mercury crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day, so its sign is left open. No settled placement falls in water — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Nothing was retrograde that day, which is less common than it sounds.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Aries for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 17.0°.

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

Source article: Rabindranath Tagore · revision 1364723051
Wikidata: Q7241 · revision 2517803425
Retrieved: 2026-07-25T17:05:12.504Z
Birth date: 1861-05-07 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Kolkata, India · Q1348
Coordinates: 22.5675, 88.3700 · from Kolkata
Reference instant: 1861-05-07T06:06:40.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.85° · The Moon remained in Aries throughout that civil day.
Open signs: Mercury crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Generalstabens litografiska anstalt · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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