Simón Bolívar

Politician · Venezuela · 1783–1830

Leo 1.5° · born July 24, 1783
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

The Sun stands at 1.5° 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 Caracas—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 1.5° Leo, inside the first decan (0°–10°), whose traditional sub-ruler is the Sun. 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

Closer in, Mercury stands at 11.9° Cancer; Venus stands at 16.3° Virgo; Mars stands at 6.8° Aries. The tradition reads thought steeped in tone and memory from Mercury, attraction that grows by reliability from Venus, effort spent in bursts and openings from Mars.

The angles that hold

Saturn to Neptune is the closest call of the day, a square within 0.2°. The old texts treat a square as the aspect you feel earliest and thank latest: obstruction first, competence afterwards. Behind it, Mars square Saturn at 0.8°, and Mars opposition Neptune at 1.0° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

What the angles build

Mercury opposes Saturn while both square Mars. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment. Venus 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 oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags five placements in this chart. The Sun in Leo at 1.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Venus in Virgo at 16.3° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Aries at 6.8° is in domicile; Jupiter in Capricorn at 27.0° is in fall; Saturn in Capricorn at 7.6° is in domicile. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements air 3, earth 3, fire 2, water 2; modalities cardinal 6, fixed 2, mutable 2. Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto were 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 11.9° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 10.7°.

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

Source article: Simón Bolívar · revision 1364294081
Wikidata: Q8605 · revision 2521226558
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1783-07-24 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Caracas, Venezuela · Q1533
Coordinates: 10.5061, -66.9144 · from Caracas
Reference instant: 1783-07-24T16:27:44.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.91° · The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Ricardo Acevedo Bernal · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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