Simone de Beauvoir

Political philosopher and novelist · France · 1908–1986

Capricorn 17.8° · born January 9, 1908
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Pisces into Aries 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 fall in cardinal signs, the widest weighting the unknown hour leaves certain. Cardinal weight is read as initiative: the instinct to be the reason something began.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in 6th arrondissement of Paris—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 17.8° Capricorn — the second decan, 10°–20°, which the tradition sub-rules by Venus. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Capricorn and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Uranus to Neptune, a opposition with 0.3° of slack. An opposition is the tradition’s tug of war. Both ends are real, and the work is holding them at once rather than picking a winner. Behind it, Saturn square Pluto at 0.9°, and Mercury opposition Neptune at 1.4° — 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.

The classical map

No planet here is at home, exalted, in detriment, or in fall. That silence from the oldest layer of the scheme is itself a result, and it moves the weight of the reading onto the geometry.

The shape of the whole

The honest balance sheet uses the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: earth 3, water 3, air 2, fire 1 across the elements, and cardinal 4, mutable 3, fixed 2 across the modalities. An earth emphasis reads as trust in the tangible: the plan matters less than whether the thing stands up. Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto 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 Pisces into Aries during that day at the birthplace, travelling 13.7° 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.

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Source article: Simone de Beauvoir · revision 1365431221
Wikidata: Q7197 · revision 2521377153
Retrieved: 2026-07-25T17:05:12.504Z
Birth date: 1908-01-09 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: 6th arrondissement of Paris, France · Q245546
Coordinates: 48.8505, 2.3322 · from 6th arrondissement of Paris
Reference instant: 1908-01-09T11:50:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.74° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Pisces into Aries during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Moshe Milner · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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