Tarsila do Amaral

Painter · Brazil · 1886–1973

Virgo 9.1° · born September 1, 1886
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Across the ten placements whose signs are settled, cardinal leads with four. The four cardinal signs sit at the solstices and equinoxes — the scheme’s ignition points, and this chart is weighted to them.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's exact place is 9.1° Virgo. That falls in the first decan, 0°–10°, sub-ruled by Mercury in the classical scheme — a earth sign read through a mutable season.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Leo (21.0°), Venus in Leo (15.6°), Mars in Scorpio (6.8°): a mind that decides at speaking speed, taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate, drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Jupiter to Uranus, a conjunction with 2.0° of slack. Two bodies in the same degree are not read as neighbours but as a merger: whatever one wants, the other is already funding. Behind it, Uranus trine Pluto at 2.2°, and the Sun sextile Mars at 2.3° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.

Figures in the geometry

The Moon stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.

The classical map

Two planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. Mars in Scorpio at 6.8° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Cancer at 19.1° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements air 4, earth 2, fire 2, water 2; modalities cardinal 4, fixed 4, mutable 2. Air runs on comparison and connection — the pattern noticed first, the feeling filed second. Neptune was 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 Libra for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.4° 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 22.2°.

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

Source article: Tarsila do Amaral · revision 1362474596
Wikidata: Q466627 · revision 2517864990
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1886-09-01 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Capivari, Brazil · Q1750439
Coordinates: -22.9950, -47.5078 · from Capivari
Reference instant: 1886-09-01T15:06:28.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.44° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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