Image: Wikimedia CommonsScience · February 18, 1745 · Como
Alessandro Volta's Birth Chart
Sun in Pisces · Moon in Virgo ≈
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in a two-part letter to the president of the Royal Society in London, which was published in 1800. With this invention, Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by living beings. Volta's invention sparked a great amount of scientific excitement and led others to conduct similar experiments, which eventually led to the development of the field of electrochemistry. Wikipedia
Section I · The core
The two luminaries
Two lights set the tone of the whole chart: the Sun, the identity; the Moon, the emotional world.
Alessandro Volta's Sun, in Pisces
Your core is compassion and sensitivity: dissolving boundaries, imagining, feeling the world as a single fabric. At your centre live resonance, empathy and a connection with the invisible. Your purpose is to dissolve rigid boundaries so as to bring compassion, art and spirituality into your life.
Alessandro Volta's Moon, in Virgo
You settle by ordering: your emotions are tended with kind routines and useful gestures, not with high drama. You heal what you feel when you give it a practical form, analysing and caring for the details of daily life.
Without an exact birth time, the Moon could fall in the neighbouring sign: it changed sign that day.
Section II · The map
Their natal wheel
The sky on the day they were born. The outer ring is the twelve signs; the lines across the centre, the aspects between planets. Without a birth time, houses and the Ascendant aren't drawn.
Section III · The detail
Planets and aspects
The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.
Alessandro Volta's placements
We compute the placements for the day of birth. Without the exact time the Ascendant and houses can't be fixed, but each planet's sign is reliable.
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 0°01′ |
| Moon | Virgo | 27°26′ |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 5°26′ |
| Venus | Aries | 11°58′ |
| Mars | Libra ℞ | 10°10′ |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 14°06′ |
| Saturn | Libra ℞ | 0°31′ |
| Uranus | Aquarius | 2°50′ |
| Neptune | Cancer ℞ | 14°03′ |
| Pluto | Scorpio | 21°45′ |
Alessandro Volta's aspects
Each aspect is an angle between two planets; it defines how they speak to each other. Aspects to the Moon are approximate: they depend on the exact birth time.
Elements and modalities
How their energy is split across the four elements and the three modalities.
Section IV · The signature
The signature of their sky
The whole at a glance: how the planets are spread, and the accents that set the overall tone of the chart.
Bucket
A group of planets with a single one opposite: that 'handle' planet becomes the channel of the whole chart.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Air and the Cardinal modality.
Neptune is the most connected planet in their chart: 4 aspects tie it to the rest.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
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