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Sun Yat-sen

Politician and physician · China · 1866–1925

Scorpio 19.6° · born November 12, 1866
Birth time unknown.

Source correctionCorrected to 12 November 1866 in Cuiheng, Guangdong, China, with death on 12 March 1925. The chart has been recomputed from the corrected date and Asia/Shanghai reference zone. Birth time remains unknown. Review the sources.

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

0.4° separates Mercury and Neptune from an exact trine; at that range thinking and imagination read as one mechanism. A trine runs downhill — the talent that never announces itself because it never had to.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Cuiheng—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 19.6° Scorpio — deep enough in the second decan (10°–20°) that Jupiter, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

Closer to the ground

Mercury holds 10.8° Sagittarius, Venus holds 25.6° Sagittarius, Mars holds 27.8° Cancer — in the old shorthand, thought that arrives already in motion; attraction declared rather than implied; effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Mercury and Neptune: 0.4° from an exact trine. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, Mars opposition Jupiter at 0.9°, and Saturn opposition Pluto at 1.5° — 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

The Moon opposes Uranus while both square Neptune. The t-square is the figure the old texts trusted for output: friction with a fixed address. 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 dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks four placements here. The Moon in Capricorn at 11.0° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mercury in Sagittarius at 10.8° is in detriment; Mars in Cancer at 27.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Capricorn at 26.9° is in fall. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.

The shape of the whole

Tallied where the signs are certain — 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day — the chart gives water 4, earth 3, fire 3, and cardinal 5, fixed 3, mutable 2 across the modes. Water weights a chart toward the felt and the remembered — information that arrives as atmosphere before it arrives as words. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Capricorn for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.0° 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 11.0°.

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

Source article

Sun Yat-sen · revision 1373507779

Wikidata

Q8573 · revision 2536272260

Retrieved

2026-09-07T04:46:29.527Z

Birth date

1866-11-12 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian

Birthplace

Cuiheng, China · Q588677

Reviewed source decision · 2026-09-07

Corrected to 12 November 1866 in Cuiheng, Guangdong, China, with death on 12 March 1925. The chart has been recomputed from the corrected date and Asia/Shanghai reference zone. Birth time remains unknown.