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Vincent van Gogh
Painter and draftsperson · Netherlands · 1853–1890
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Sagittarius throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
The Sun stands at 9.7° Aries, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. 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 Zundert—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 9.7° Aries — the first decan, 0°–10°, which the tradition sub-rules by Mars. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Aries and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.
The angles that hold
Mercury and Jupiter hold the closest angle here — a trine, 1.4° wide. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned. Behind it, Mars square Jupiter at 1.9°, and Venus conjunction Mars at 1.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These angles were checked through every hour of that civil day and survive throughout, which is why an unrecorded hour does not disturb them.
The classical map
Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, three sit in a sign it has an opinion about. The Sun in Aries at 9.7° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Pisces at 28.1° is in exaltation; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 24.3° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.
The shape of the whole
Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 4 fire, 3 water, 3 earth; by modality, 5 mutable, 3 fixed, 2 cardinal. A fire emphasis is read as appetite for the first move, with information gathered by doing rather than before doing. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Every body was moving forward that day — no apparent reversals anywhere in the chart.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Sagittarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.2° between midnight and midnight. The sign survives the missing hour; the degree does not, and is given as a reference rather than a fact. At the noon reference it stands at 21.3°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Vincent van Gogh · revision 1365516977
- Wikidata
- Q5582 · revision 2522529470
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-25T17:05:12.504Z
- Birth date
- 1853-03-30 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Zundert, Netherlands · Q9883
- Coordinates
- 51.4703, 4.6600 · from Zundert
- Reference instant
- 1853-03-30T11:42:30.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 14.16° · The Moon remained in Sagittarius throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · the recorded creator is the subject ("Vincent van Gogh"), so the licence holder of this reproduction cannot be credited accurately without separate review
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