People · sourced chart
Ray Eames
Film director and designer · United States · 1912–1988
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 Sagittarius — the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter. 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 Sacramento—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
At the noon reference the Sun sits 23.5° into Sagittarius — the third decan, which the old scheme hands to the Sun. Same sign, different decan, different chart.
The personal registers
Closer in, Mercury stands at 9.2° Sagittarius; Venus stands at 3.5° Aquarius; Mars stands at 11.1° Sagittarius. The tradition reads thought that arrives already in motion from Mercury, attraction that begins as conversation from Venus, effort spent in bursts and openings from Mars.
The angles that hold
The tightest geometry in the chart puts Mercury in the same degree of the zodiac from Mars, 2.0° off exact. The tradition stops reading a conjunction as two things. It is one appetite with two names, and it moves together or not at all. Behind it, Venus conjunction Uranus at 2.2°, and the Sun conjunction Jupiter at 2.4° — 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.
What the angles build
No closed figure — no grand trine, t-square, or grand cross — holds among the day-stable angles. The chart distributes its tension pair by pair rather than through one standing structure.
The classical map
The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks two placements here. Mercury in Sagittarius at 9.2° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 25.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.
The shape of the whole
Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements fire 4, air 3, water 2, earth 1; modalities mutable 6, fixed 3, cardinal 1. Fire weights a chart toward initiative — starting, asserting, spending energy to find out what happens. Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Pisces for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.8° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 12.6°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Ray Eames · revision 1363287674
- Wikidata
- Q380404 · revision 2512171960
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1912-12-15 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Sacramento, United States · Q18013
- Coordinates
- 38.5753, -121.4861 · from Sacramento
- Reference instant
- 1912-12-15T20:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 11.85° · The Moon remained in Pisces throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- 2million2kara · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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