William Wilberforce

Politician and writer · United Kingdom · 1759–1833

Virgo 0.9° · born August 24, 1759
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, Venus holds a square to Mars at 0.8° — close enough to weld taste to drive. 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 Wilberforce House—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 0.9° into Virgo — the first decan, which the old scheme hands to Mercury. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

The personal registers

Mercury holds 28.1° Virgo, Venus holds 16.9° Libra, Mars holds 16.0° Cancer — in the old shorthand, thought with its feet on the ground; attraction that begins as conversation; effort that surges when it matters.

The angles that hold

The day's firmest angle joins Jupiter and Saturn — a sextile holding at 0.7°. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it. Behind it, Venus square Mars at 0.8°, and Venus sextile Neptune at 1.0° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. The unknown hour cannot unmake any of this: every aspect named survived all twenty-five samples of the day.

Figures in the geometry

Mars opposes Jupiter while both square Venus. Two squares braced against one opposition make a t-square — the chart’s working end, where pressure keeps finding the same outlet. The Sun 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 four placements here. Mercury in Virgo at 28.1° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Libra at 16.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Cancer at 16.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Capricorn at 13.0° is in fall. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

Balance, counted honestly across the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: elements earth 4, fire 3, water 2, air 1; modalities mutable 5, cardinal 4, fixed 1. Earth weights a chart toward the material and the durable — what can be built, kept, and relied on. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto were 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, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Virgo 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 21.5°.

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

Source article: William Wilberforce · revision 1365116588
Wikidata: Q207672 · revision 2519324082
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1759-08-24 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Wilberforce House, United Kingdom · Q8000088
Coordinates: 53.7441, -0.3280 · from Wilberforce House
Reference instant: 1759-08-24T12:01:15.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.16° · The Moon remained in Virgo throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Anton Hickel · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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