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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's Birth Chart
Sun in Virgo · Moon in Capricorn
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, since called the Jardin des Plantes. Wikipedia
Sun in Virgo
14°05′Your centre is craft: improving what you touch, serving with precision, finding the sacred in the detail. Your identity is refined through order, useful observation and continuous improvement. You find meaning in being of help, optimising processes and understanding how the whole works.
Moon in Capricorn
20°01′Your emotions are sober and deep: it's hard for you to ask, but you hold like a mountain. Your emotional world seeks refuge in restraint, work, pragmatism and self-control. You show affection by supporting and protecting your own, and you find peace when you feel you hold the reins of your life.
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, so this chart doesn't set it. Their planets by sign, however, remain reliable.
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.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon'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 | Virgo | 14°05′ |
| Moon | Capricorn | 20°01′ |
| Mercury | Virgo ℞ | 17°43′ |
| Venus | Leo | 27°11′ |
| Mars | Libra | 2°44′ |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 12°10′ |
| Saturn | Gemini | 17°24′ |
| Uranus | Leo | 15°27′ |
| Neptune | Aries ℞ | 23°04′ |
| Pluto | Leo | 23°28′ |
Beyond the planets
Three keys beyond the ten classical planets, which astrology reads as axes of the chart. All four angles need your birth time.
Not a body but a point of the Moon's orbit. It marks the direction of your growth.
The Black Moon: a mathematical point tied to the untamed and what refuses to submit.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon'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 Fire and the Mutable modality.
North Node 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 Leo: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
Three or more planets together in Virgo: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
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