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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer · Austria · 1756–1791
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Sagittarius 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 Aquarius — the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn. 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 Salzburg—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 7.0° into Aquarius — the first decan, which the old scheme hands to Saturn. Same sign, different decan, different chart.
The fast planets
The personal planets sit Mercury at 7.5° Aquarius, Venus at 28.9° Aquarius, Mars at 0.4° Cancer. Mercury in a air sign reads as thought that travels by comparison; Venus in a air sign reads as attraction that begins as conversation; Mars in a water sign reads as effort that surges when it matters.
The angles that hold
The tightest geometry in the chart puts the Sun in the same degree of the zodiac from Mercury, 0.5° off exact. Two bodies in the same degree are not read as neighbours but as a merger: whatever one wants, the other is already funding. Behind it, Jupiter sextile Pluto at 0.7°, and Venus trine Mars at 1.5° — 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
No closed figure — no grand trine, t-square, or grand cross — holds among the day-stable angles. The chart distributes its tension pair by pair rather than through one standing structure.
The classical map
The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks three placements here. The Sun in Aquarius at 7.0° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Cancer at 0.4° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Saturn in Aquarius at 1.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. 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: air 5, fire 3, water 2 across the elements, and fixed 5, mutable 3, cardinal 2 across the modalities. Air signs carry exchange in the scheme — comparison, argument, the sentence that makes the situation legible. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mars and Neptune were retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Sagittarius for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.5° between midnight and midnight. The missing clock moves the Moon by half a sign at most here, and the boundary was never close. At the noon reference it stands at 12.8°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · revision 1365739432
- Wikidata
- Q254 · revision 2522267263
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1756-01-27 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Salzburg, Austria · Q34713
- Coordinates
- 47.8000, 13.0450 · from Salzburg
- Reference instant
- 1756-01-27T10:54:39.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 14.47° · The Moon remained in Sagittarius throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- Barbara Krafft · public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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