Rufino Tamayo

Painter · Mexico · 1899–1990

Virgo 3.3° · born August 26, 1899
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 18.6° Taurus, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. 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 Oaxaca de Juárez—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun sits at 3.3° Virgo — the first decan, 0°–10°, which the tradition sub-rules by Mercury. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Virgo and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

The personal registers

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Leo (21.3°), Venus in Leo (27.7°), Mars in Libra (13.2°): a mind that decides at speaking speed, taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate, drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Saturn to Pluto, a opposition with 0.5° of slack. Across the wheel, each body sees the other in full. The old reading is not conflict so much as permanent mutual visibility. Behind it, the Sun square Uranus at 0.8°, and Venus sextile Neptune at 1.0° — 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.

Figures in the geometry

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

The classical table has two entries for this chart. The Moon in Taurus at 18.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mars in Libra at 13.2° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: fire 4, air 3, earth 2, water 1 across the elements, and mutable 5, fixed 4, cardinal 1 across the modalities. Mercury was retrograde — motion that reverses only from this vantage point, and which the old reading treats as delay used for revision.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Taurus for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.2° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 18.6°.

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

Source article: Rufino Tamayo · revision 1364844868
Wikidata: Q690790 · revision 2503327570
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1899-08-26 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico · Q131429
Coordinates: 17.0606, -96.7253 · from Oaxaca de Juárez
Reference instant: 1899-08-26T18:36:36.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.22° · The Moon remained in Taurus throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: User Steve Eifert on en.wikipedia · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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