Sri Aurobindo

Poet and politician · India · 1872–1950

Leo 22.7° · born August 15, 1872
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

The Sun stands at 22.7° 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 Sri Aurobindo Bhawan—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 22.7° Leo, inside the third decan (20°–30°), whose traditional sub-ruler is Mars. The decan is the older, finer division — it is what the sign looks like once you stop rounding it to thirty degrees.

The personal registers

The personal planets sit Mercury at 15.6° Virgo, Venus at 1.0° Virgo, Mars at 27.6° Cancer. Mercury in a earth sign reads as thought with its feet on the ground; Venus in a earth sign reads as attraction that grows by reliability; Mars in a water sign reads as effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Mercury and Saturn: 0.1° from an exact trine. A trine is an open channel. The two cooperate without being asked, which is exactly why it is easy to spend and easy to take for granted. Behind it, Mars square Neptune at 1.4°, and the Sun square Pluto at 1.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Every angle named here holds for the whole of that day at the birthplace, so an unknown hour cannot take it away.

What the angles build

Mercury, Saturn, Pluto close a triangle of trines. Three trines close into a circuit the tradition calls a grand trine — ease so complete it can idle unnoticed for years.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, five placements stand out. The Sun in Leo at 22.7° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mercury in Virgo at 15.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Virgo at 1.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Cancer at 27.6° is in fall; Saturn in Capricorn at 15.6° is in domicile. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in fire, 4 in earth, 1 in water by element, 4 fixed, 3 cardinal, 2 mutable by modality. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Saturn and Neptune were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day at the birthplace, travelling 14.6° 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.

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

Source article: Sri Aurobindo · revision 1365890454
Wikidata: Q192207 · revision 2515939751
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1872-08-15 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Sri Aurobindo Bhawan, India · Q68706518
Coordinates: 22.5536, 88.3514 · from Ward No. 63, Kolkata Municipal Corporation · coordinates taken from Ward No. 63, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, one administrative step above the recorded birthplace
Reference instant: 1872-08-15T06:38:50.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.58° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Rudolf 1922 · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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