Rosa Bonheur

Painter · France · 1822–1899

Pisces 25.4° · born March 16, 1822
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Four of the nine placements whose signs are settled stand in Pisces — the Sun, Mercury, Venus 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 Bordeaux—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 25.4° Pisces: the third decan, whose classical sub-ruler is Mars. A water sign, read here in its third face.

Closer to the ground

Closer in, Mercury stands at 10.2° Pisces; Venus stands at 15.1° Pisces; Mars stands at 21.8° Leo. The tradition reads a mind that absorbs before it argues from Mercury, taste tuned to mood and undertow from Venus, drive that ignites on contact from Mars.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Uranus and Neptune: 2.0° from an exact conjunction. 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, Mercury sextile Uranus at 3.1°, and Jupiter trine Neptune at 3.2° — 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 day-stable angles form no closed figure. Nothing funnels; each aspect is its own negotiation, which the tradition reads as a chart of separate treaties rather than one campaign.

The classical map

The classical table has three entries for this chart. Mercury in Pisces at 10.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Pisces at 15.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Saturn in Aries at 25.5° is in fall. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in water, 3 in earth, 2 in fire by element, 4 mutable, 3 cardinal, 2 fixed by modality. A water emphasis reads as porousness: the room is registered whole, long before it is analysed in parts. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mercury, Venus and Mars were retrograde — the backward drift a body appears to make as the Earth overtakes it, read in the scheme as a function that reviews before it releases.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.2° between one midnight and the next. A birth time would settle it in a second; there isn’t one. So the Moon stays unnamed here — the alternative is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.

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

Source article: Rosa Bonheur · revision 1365991649
Wikidata: Q241732 · revision 2522266726
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1822-03-16 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Bordeaux, France · Q1479
Coordinates: 44.8378, -0.5794 · from Bordeaux
Reference instant: 1822-03-16T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.18° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Eugène Disdéri · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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