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Art · December 31, 1869 · Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Henri Matisse's Birth Chart

Sun in Capricorn · Moon in Sagittarius

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. 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.

Henri Matisse's Sun, in Capricorn

Your centre is mastery: patient ambition, responsibility and works that hold others up.

Henri Matisse's Moon, in Sagittarius

Your spirit needs air and future: movement, laughter and a good reason to believe repair you.

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.

Harmonious aspectTense aspect

Section III · The detail

Planets and aspects

The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.

Henri Matisse'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.

PlanetSignDegree
Sun Capricorn9°55
Moon Sagittarius20°51
Mercury Capricorn20°17
Venus Aquarius25°55
Mars Capricorn25°50
Jupiter Taurus11°01
Saturn Sagittarius21°56
Uranus Cancer20°22
Neptune Aries16°46
Pluto Taurus16°11

Henri Matisse'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.

MercuryOpposition Uranus0.1°
MoonConjunction Saturn1.1°
SunTrine Jupiter1.1°
MercurySquare Neptune3.5°
UranusSquare Neptune3.6°
VenusSextile Saturn4.0°
MoonTrine Neptune4.1°
MercuryTrine Pluto4.1°
UranusSextile Pluto4.2°
MoonSextile Venus5.1°
JupiterConjunction Pluto5.2°
SaturnTrine Neptune5.2°
MarsOpposition Uranus5.5°
MercuryConjunction Mars5.5°
SunTrine Pluto6.3°
SunSquare Neptune6.9°

Elements and modalities

How their energy is split across the four elements and the three modalities.

Fire3
Earth5
Air1
Water1
Cardinal5
Fixed3
Mutable2

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.

Chart shape

Bucket

A group of planets with a single one opposite: that 'handle' planet becomes the channel of the whole chart.

Dominants

Their energy concentrates in the element of Earth and the Cardinal modality.

Traits

Neptune is the most connected planet in their chart: 6 aspects tie it to the rest.

Patterns
StelliumSun · Mercury · Mars

Three or more planets together in Capricorn: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.

T-squareMercury · Uranus · Neptune

An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.

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