W. E. B. Du Bois

Historian and sociologist · United States · 1868–1963

Pisces 4.4° · born February 23, 1868
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, Venus holds a square to Uranus at 0.9° — close enough to weld taste to disruption. A square is the tradition’s engine room: two drives at cross purposes, and the friction is the horsepower.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At the noon reference the Sun sits 4.4° into Pisces — the first decan, which the old scheme hands to Jupiter. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

Closer to the ground

Mercury holds 22.1° Pisces, Venus holds 9.9° Aries, Mars holds 22.1° Aquarius — in the old shorthand, thought steeped in tone and memory; attraction declared rather than implied; effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Venus and Uranus: 0.9° from an exact square. A square is the tradition’s engine room: two drives at cross purposes, and the friction is the horsepower. Behind it, the Sun square Saturn at 1.0°, and Jupiter sextile Pluto at 2.3° — 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.

Figures in the geometry

Mars 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 three placements here. Mercury in Pisces at 22.1° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Venus in Aries at 9.9° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Pisces at 16.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 water, 3 fire, 1 air, 1 earth by element and 4 mutable, 3 cardinal, 2 fixed by mode. Uranus was 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 Aquarius into Pisces during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.1° between one midnight and the next. Half the day belongs to each sign, and the split falls at an unrecorded hour — so this page holds the Moon as a genuine unknown.

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Source article: W. E. B. Du Bois · revision 1364972769
Wikidata: Q158060 · revision 2522292388
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1868-02-23 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Great Barrington, United States · Q1144518
Coordinates: 42.1958, -73.3625 · from Great Barrington
Reference instant: 1868-02-23T16:56:02.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.09° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: James E. Purdy / Adam Cuerden · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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