Wilt Chamberlain
Basketball player and screenwriter · United States · 1936–1999
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 Sun stands at 28.4° Leo, 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 Philadelphia—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
28.4° of Leo is the Sun's exact seat — third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Mars in the old triplicity scheme. The degree is the address; the sign is only the street.
The personal registers
The personal planets sit Mercury at 21.9° Virgo, Venus at 13.0° Virgo, Mars at 7.3° Leo. Mercury in an earth sign reads as thought with its feet on the ground; Venus in an earth sign reads as attraction that grows by reliability; Mars in a fire sign reads as effort spent in bursts and openings.
The angles that hold
The day's firmest angle joins Jupiter and Neptune — a square holding at 1.1°. Right angles are where the scheme puts its grit. A square asks two functions to work in a mode neither would have chosen. Behind it, Mercury opposition Saturn at 1.2°, and Venus square Jupiter at 1.7° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.
The standing structure
Saturn opposes Neptune while both square Jupiter. 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 oldest layer of the scheme — seven planets, four conditions — flags four placements in this chart. The Sun in Leo at 28.4° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mercury in Virgo at 21.9° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Venus in Virgo at 13.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Sagittarius at 14.8° is in domicile. Dignity is a statement about conditions, not about worth.
The shape of the whole
The honest balance sheet uses the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: earth 4, fire 3, water 2, air 1 across the elements, and mutable 5, fixed 3, cardinal 2 across the modalities. Saturn and Uranus 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 Libra for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 11.9° 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 19.3°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Wilt Chamberlain · revision 1364425773
- Wikidata
- Q182455 · revision 2520771973
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1936-08-21 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, United States · Q1345
- Coordinates
- 39.9528, -75.1636 · from Philadelphia (Q1345)
- Birth-time evidence in this profile
- none — Wikidata carries no birth-time claim for this person
- Reference instant
- 1936-08-21T16:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 11.89° · The Moon remained in Libra throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · creator credit too long to render legibly
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