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Wilma Rudolph
Sprinter · United States · 1940–1994
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Aquarius 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 Cancer — the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars. 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 Clarksville—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 2.0° Cancer — the first decan, 0°–10°, which the tradition sub-rules by the Moon. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Cancer and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.
The fast planets
For the fast movers, Mercury was at 27.3° Cancer, Venus was at 7.0° Cancer, Mars was at 23.8° Cancer. Read together: a mind that absorbs before it argues; taste tuned to mood and undertow; drive that moves on certainty and current.
The angles that hold
Closest first: Mars to Uranus, a sextile with 0.5° of slack. A sextile pays out only on effort; the scheme calls it opportunity rather than gift. Behind it, Mars sextile Neptune at 1.0°, and Venus sextile Jupiter at 1.0° — 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
One planet here sits in a sign the classical scheme scores. Mars in Cancer at 23.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. 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 4 water, 4 earth, 1 air, 1 fire; by modality, 5 fixed, 4 cardinal, 1 mutable. Venus 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 Aquarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.4° 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 17.2°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Wilma Rudolph · revision 1365359618
- Wikidata
- Q31083 · revision 2516854479
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1940-06-23 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Clarksville, United States · Q328941
- Coordinates
- 36.5297, -87.3594 · from Clarksville
- Reference instant
- 1940-06-23T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 12.43° · The Moon remained in Aquarius throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · licence "CC BY-SA 3.0 nl" is outside the accepted set (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA)
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