Roberto Clemente

Baseball player · Italy · 1934–1972

Leo 24.8° · born August 18, 1934
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 24.8° Leo, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Measured rather than labelled, the Sun holds 24.8° Leo: the third decan, whose classical sub-ruler is Mars. A fire sign, read here in its third face.

Closer to the ground

The personal planets sit Mercury at 16.7° Leo, Venus at 1.0° Leo, Mars at 22.2° Cancer. Mercury in a fire sign reads as a mind that decides at speaking speed; Venus in a fire sign reads as taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate; Mars in a water sign reads as drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Start where the chart is tightest — the Sun opposition Saturn, 0.0° of separation. The scheme reads an opposition as a axis to walk, not a fight to win: the chart keeps both ends lit. Behind it, Venus square Uranus at 0.4°, and Mars square Jupiter at 2.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.

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

Three planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Sun in Leo at 24.8° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Cancer at 22.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Saturn in Aquarius at 24.8° is in domicile. None of these labels is a verdict on a person; they describe how a function is situated, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements fire 3, water 2, air 2, earth 2; modalities fixed 5, cardinal 3, mutable 1. Fire weights a chart toward initiative — starting, asserting, spending energy to find out what happens. Saturn and Uranus were retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.6° between one midnight and the next. Which of the two it was depends entirely on the hour, and the hour is not recorded. Rather than pick the likelier half, the reading leaves the Moon open.

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

Source article: Roberto Clemente · revision 1359575826
Wikidata: Q684020 · revision 2508299380
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1934-08-18 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Italy, Italy · Q38
Coordinates: 42.5000, 12.5000 · from Italy
Reference instant: 1934-08-18T11:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.60° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: US Marines · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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