William Blake

Painter and poet · United Kingdom · 1757–1827

Sagittarius 6.5° · born November 28, 1757
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

The Moon stands at 8.1° Cancer, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. 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 London—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

Sagittarius, but precisely: 6.5°, first decan, 0°–10°, under Jupiter in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 26.5° Scorpio, Venus was at 18.7° Capricorn, Mars was at 20.2° Leo. Read together: a mind that absorbs before it argues; taste for the substantial and the lasting; drive that ignites on contact.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Mars and Pluto — a trine holding at 0.1°. A trine runs downhill — the talent that never announces itself because it never had to. Behind it, Venus sextile Uranus at 0.6°, and Uranus square Pluto at 0.8° — 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 standing structure

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

The classical table has three entries for this chart. The Moon in Cancer at 8.1° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 0.9° is in domicile; Saturn in Aquarius at 16.8° is in domicile. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 5 in fire, 3 in water, 1 in earth, 1 in air by element, 4 mutable, 4 fixed, 2 cardinal by modality. A fire-weighted chart runs hot at the start line — initiative is its native language. Neptune was retrograde. Uranus changed direction during the day, so its motion is left open.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.2° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 8.1°.

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

Source article: William Blake · revision 1365625559
Wikidata: Q41513 · revision 2521137138
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1757-11-28 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: London, United Kingdom · Q84
Coordinates: 51.5072, -0.1275 · from London
Reference instant: 1757-11-28T12:01:15.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.20° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Thomas Phillips · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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