Yogi Berra

Baseball player · United States · 1925–2015

Taurus 21.4° · born May 12, 1925
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Capricorn throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

Cardinal signs carry five of the ten placements whose signs are settled — the broadest certain weighting in the chart. The four cardinal signs sit at the solstices and equinoxes — the scheme’s ignition points, and this chart is weighted to them.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in St. Louis—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 21.4° Taurus: the third decan, whose classical sub-ruler is Saturn. A earth sign, read here in its third face.

Closer to the ground

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Aries (26.2°), Venus in Taurus (26.4°), Mars in Cancer (1.8°): a mind that decides at speaking speed, taste for the substantial and the lasting, drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts the Sun a third of the circle apart from Jupiter, 1.1° off exact. A trine runs downhill — the talent that never announces itself because it never had to. Behind it, the Sun square Neptune at 1.6°, and Saturn trine Pluto at 1.6° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

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

The classical table has four entries for this chart. The Moon in Capricorn at 17.9° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Venus in Taurus at 26.4° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Mars in Cancer at 1.8° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Jupiter in Capricorn at 22.5° is in fall. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

The certain ground: 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, dividing 4 earth, 4 water, 2 fire by element and 5 cardinal, 4 fixed, 1 mutable by mode. An earth emphasis reads as patience with material reality — slow hands, durable results. No settled placement falls in air — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Jupiter and Saturn 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 Capricorn for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 14.5° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 17.9°.

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

Source article: Yogi Berra · revision 1363210929
Wikidata: Q367566 · revision 2517641504
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1925-05-12 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: St. Louis, United States · Q38022
Coordinates: 38.6264, -90.1994 · from St. Louis
Reference instant: 1925-05-12T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 14.48° · The Moon remained in Capricorn throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Bowman Gum · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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