Ralph Ellison

Writer · United States · 1914–1994

Pisces 10.3° · born March 1, 1914
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, Mercury holds a trine to Neptune at 1.0° — close enough to weld thinking to imagination. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

10.3° of Pisces is the Sun's exact seat — second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by the Moon in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.

The fast planets

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Pisces (24.8°), Venus in Pisces (14.7°), Mars in Cancer (7.3°): thought steeped in tone and memory, attraction that works by atmosphere, effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Jupiter to Uranus, a conjunction with 0.4° of slack. A conjunction concentrates rather than balances — the pair burns one fuel line. Behind it, Mercury trine Neptune at 1.0°, and the Sun square Saturn at 1.2° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

The standing structure

The Moon makes no major aspect that survives the day; the old reading gives such a planet autonomy — it acts alone, sometimes loudly.

The classical map

The oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags three placements in this chart. Mercury in Pisces at 24.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Pisces at 14.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mars in Cancer at 7.3° is in fall. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: water 5, air 4 across the elements, and mutable 5, cardinal 2, fixed 2 across the modalities. No settled placement falls in fire or earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. 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 Aries into Taurus during that day at the birthplace, travelling 11.8° 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: Ralph Ellison · revision 1366009174
Wikidata: Q299965 · revision 2516888413
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1914-03-01 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Oklahoma City, United States · Q34863
Coordinates: 35.4822, -97.5353 · from Oklahoma City
Reference instant: 1914-03-01T18:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.84° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aries into Taurus during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: United States Information Agency staff photographer · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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