Ritwik Ghatak

Film director and screenwriter · Bangladesh · 1925–1976

Scorpio 11.3° · born November 4, 1925
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Mars and Neptune sit 0.8° from an exact sextile — near enough that the tradition reads drive and imagination as a single working part. Sextiles are read as standing invitations — productive exactly as often as they are accepted.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Dhaka—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 11.3° Scorpio. That falls in the second decan, 10°–20°, sub-ruled by Jupiter in the classical scheme — a water sign read through a fixed season.

The fast planets

The personal planets sit Mercury at 27.8° Scorpio, Venus at 27.0° Sagittarius, Mars at 23.8° Libra. Mercury in a water sign reads as a mind that absorbs before it argues; Venus in a fire sign reads as taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate; Mars in a air sign reads as drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

Mars to Neptune is the closest call of the day, a sextile within 0.8°. A sextile is an offer rather than a given: available when it is reached for, quiet when it is not. Behind it, Jupiter sextile Saturn at 1.0°, and Saturn trine Pluto at 1.7° — 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.

What the angles build

The Moon opposes Venus while both square Uranus. The t-square is the figure the old texts trusted for output: friction with a fixed address.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, two sit in a sign it has an opinion about. Mars in Libra at 23.8° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Capricorn at 17.3° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 5 water, 2 air, 2 fire, 1 earth by element and 4 fixed, 3 mutable, 3 cardinal by mode. Uranus 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 Gemini for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.4° between midnight and midnight. The sign survives the missing hour; the degree does not, and is given as a reference rather than a fact. At the noon reference it stands at 23.4°.

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

Source article: Ritwik Ghatak · revision 1359628327
Wikidata: Q55404 · revision 2521442721
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1925-11-04 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Dhaka, Bangladesh · Q1354
Coordinates: 23.7289, 90.3944 · from Dhaka
Reference instant: 1925-11-04T06:06:40.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.35° · The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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