Walter Gropius

Architect and pedagogue · Germany · 1883–1969

Taurus 27.1° · born May 18, 1883
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

Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Taurus — the Sun, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The placements whose signs could change with an unknown hour are not counted. A cluster that size becomes the section the rest of the chart plays around.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

Taurus, but precisely: 27.1°, third decan, 20°–30°, under Saturn in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The personal registers

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Gemini (18.4°), Venus in Aries (24.4°), Mars in Aries (21.2°): a mind at home in argument and pattern, taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate, drive that ignites on contact.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Uranus to Neptune, a trine with 0.4° of slack. The scheme reads trines as water finding its level: effortless, and invisible to the person living it. Behind it, Saturn conjunction Pluto at 0.5°, and Mercury square Uranus at 0.9° — 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.

What the angles build

Jupiter 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

The classical table has four entries for this chart. Mercury in Gemini at 18.4° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Venus in Aries at 24.4° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Aries at 21.2° is in domicile; Jupiter in Cancer at 2.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Among the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 5 earth, 2 air, 2 fire, 1 water; by modality, 4 fixed, 4 cardinal, 2 mutable. Earth counts what remains: the built, the kept, the finished. Promise weighs less than delivery. Uranus was retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward 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 11.8° 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 16.8°.

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

Source article: Walter Gropius · revision 1364973833
Wikidata: Q61071 · revision 2517009249
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1883-05-18 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany · Q64
Coordinates: 52.5167, 13.3833 · from Berlin
Reference instant: 1883-05-18T11:06:32.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.80° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Louis Held · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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