Wisława Szymborska

Poet · Poland · 1923–2012

Cancer 9.5° · born July 2, 1923
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The chart's headline is a trine: the Sun and Jupiter within 0.4°, identity wired to expansion. The scheme reads trines as water finding its level: effortless, and invisible to the person living it.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Prowent—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

Measured rather than labelled, the Sun holds 9.5° Cancer: the first decan, whose classical sub-ruler is the Moon. A water sign, read here in its first face.

The fast planets

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Gemini (19.8°), Venus in Gemini (20.6°), Mars in Cancer (21.2°): a mind at home in argument and pattern, taste led by wit and proportion, drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

The Sun and Jupiter hold the closest angle here — a trine, 0.4° wide. A third of the circle is the tradition’s friendliest distance — same element, shared assumptions, no translation required. Behind it, Mercury conjunction Venus at 0.8°, and the Sun conjunction Pluto at 1.2° — 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.

What the angles build

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. Mercury in Gemini at 19.8° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Cancer at 21.2° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Saturn in Libra at 13.6° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Of the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 5 in water, 3 in air, 1 in fire by element, 4 cardinal, 3 mutable, 2 fixed by modality. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Jupiter and Uranus were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.7° between one midnight and the next. A birth time would settle it in a second; there isn’t one. So the Moon stays unnamed here — the alternative is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.

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

Source article: Wisława Szymborska · revision 1364680096
Wikidata: Q42552 · revision 2515833179
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1923-07-02 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Prowent, Poland · Q11828000
Coordinates: 52.2407, 17.0887 · from Prowent
Reference instant: 1923-07-02T11:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.75° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Aquarius into Pisces during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Mariusz Kubik · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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