Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalyst and essayist · Czech Republic · 1856–1939

Taurus 16.1° · born May 6, 1856
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

Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Taurus — the Sun, Mercury, Uranus 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 Příbor—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

At noon on that date the Sun stood at 16.1° Taurus, inside the second decan (10°–20°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Mercury. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 27.2° Taurus, Venus was at 25.9° Aries, Mars was at 3.4° Libra. Read together: thought with its feet on the ground; attraction declared rather than implied; effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Uranus and Neptune: 0.7° from an exact sextile. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it. Behind it, Venus sextile Saturn at 1.6°, and Jupiter square Saturn at 2.0° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

Figures in the geometry

Mars opposes Jupiter while both square Saturn. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment. The Moon makes no major aspect that survives the day; the old reading gives such a planet autonomy — it acts alone, sometimes loudly.

The classical map

The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks three placements here. Venus in Aries at 25.9° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Libra at 3.4° is in detriment; Jupiter in Pisces at 29.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: earth 4, air 3, water 2, fire 1 across the elements, and fixed 4, mutable 4, cardinal 2 across the modalities. Earth signs hold the scheme’s slow end, where results are measured in what survives rather than what starts. Mars 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 Gemini for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.1° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 10.9°.

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

Source article: Sigmund Freud · revision 1365999847
Wikidata: Q9215 · revision 2522570087
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1856-05-06 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Příbor, Czech Republic · Q654019
Coordinates: 49.6409, 18.1450 · from Příbor
Reference instant: 1856-05-06T11:02:16.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.09° · The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Max Halberstadt · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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