Yasunari Kawabata

Writer · Japan · 1899–1972

Gemini 19.9° · born June 11, 1899
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Cancer 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 Gemini — the Sun, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto. 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 Osaka—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 19.9° Gemini — the second decan, 10°–20°, which the tradition sub-rules by Venus. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Gemini and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

The fast planets

Closer in, Mercury stands at 15.4° Gemini; Venus stands at 24.0° Taurus; Mars stands at 27.2° Leo. The tradition reads a mind at home in argument and pattern from Mercury, taste for the substantial and the lasting from Venus, drive that ignites on contact from Mars.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Mercury and Pluto: 0.1° from an exact conjunction. A conjunction is the least negotiable aspect in the scheme — no distance to argue across, so the pair arrives as a single instinct. Behind it, the Sun opposition Saturn at 0.5°, and Mars sextile Neptune at 2.9° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.

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

Three planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Moon in Cancer at 22.0° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mercury in Gemini at 15.4° is in domicile; Venus in Taurus at 24.0° is in domicile. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 air, 3 fire, 2 water, 1 earth by element and 6 mutable, 3 fixed, 1 cardinal by mode. An air-weighted chart thinks in through-lines; the sentence is how it takes hold of the world. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus were retrograde — the optical reversal the tradition reads as review — energy turned over before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Cancer for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.0° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 22.0°.

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

Source article: Yasunari Kawabata · revision 1360646147
Wikidata: Q43736 · revision 2522885560
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1899-06-11 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Osaka, Japan · Q35765
Coordinates: 34.6938, 135.5021 · from Osaka
Reference instant: 1899-06-11T03:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 11.95° · The Moon remained in Cancer throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Unknown author · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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