People · sourced chart
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 day, read honestly
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 a earth sign reads as thought with its feet on the ground; Venus in a 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
- 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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