Image: Wikimedia CommonsWriting & thought · January 19, 1809 · Boston
Edgar Allan Poe's Birth Chart
Sun in Capricorn · Moon in Pisces
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be one of the pioneers of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living exclusively through writing, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career. 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.
Edgar Allan Poe's Sun, in Capricorn
Your centre is mastery: patient ambition, responsibility, maturity and work that supports others. You flourish by taking on your goals with discipline, patience and the determination to build something lasting.
Edgar Allan Poe's Moon, in Pisces
Your emotional world is porous and vast: you absorb other people's weather like a sponge and give it back turned into art or consolation. Your inner security needs places to retreat, imagination, rest and creative outlets to channel your immense sensitivity.
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.
Edgar Allan Poe'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 | Capricorn | 29°05′ |
| Moon | Pisces | 12°58′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 29°03′ |
| Venus | Pisces | 9°25′ |
| Mars | Libra | 18°42′ |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 16°55′ |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 1°35′ |
| Uranus | Scorpio | 9°24′ |
| Neptune | Sagittarius | 6°13′ |
| Pluto | Pisces | 13°04′ |
Edgar Allan Poe'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.
Bowl
Your planets fill half the chart: one half full, one empty, like something you seek to complete.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Water and the Mutable modality.
Venus is the most connected planet in their chart: 6 aspects tie it to the rest.
Mars forms no aspects: it expresses its energy with total independence.
Three or more planets together in Pisces: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
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