Raja Ravi Varma

Painter · India · 1848–1906

Taurus 9.0° · born April 29, 1848
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Pisces 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 — Mercury, Venus, 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 Kilimanoor—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 9.0° Taurus. That falls in the first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by Venus in the classical scheme — a earth sign read through a fixed season.

The fast planets

Mercury holds 18.8° Aries, Venus holds 16.4° Aries, Mars holds 6.6° Cancer — in the old shorthand, a mind that decides at speaking speed; taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate; drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Mercury to Uranus, a conjunction with 0.6° of slack. 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, Venus square Jupiter at 1.6°, and Mercury conjunction Venus at 2.4° — 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.

The standing structure

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

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, three sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Venus in Aries at 16.4° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Cancer at 6.6° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Cancer at 14.8° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 5 in water, 4 in fire, 1 in earth by element, 6 cardinal, 3 mutable, 1 fixed by modality. Water weights a chart toward the felt and the remembered — information that arrives as atmosphere before it arrives as words. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. The day carried no retrograde motion at all; everything moved forward as seen from here.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Pisces for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.2° between midnight and midnight. Whatever the unrecorded hour was, it happened inside one Moon sign — the degree floats, the sign holds. At the noon reference it stands at 12.7°.

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

Source article: Raja Ravi Varma · revision 1360878493
Wikidata: Q333453 · revision 2518050669
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1848-04-29 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Kilimanoor, India · Q3520329
Coordinates: 8.7670, 76.8800 · from Kilimanoor
Reference instant: 1848-04-29T06:06:32.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.21° · The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Bhawani Ram · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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