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Writing & thought · May 20, 1799 · Tours

Honoré de Balzac's Birth Chart

Sun in Taurus · Moon in Sagittarius

More skies with Sun in Taurus and Moon in Sagittarius

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Wikipedia

The essence · Sun

Sun in Taurus

29°23′

Your centre is steadiness: you slowly build things that last, and sensory pleasure orders you. You flourish when you build at your own pace and give tangible form to what you value.

The inner world · Moon

Moon in Sagittarius

15°32′

Your spirits need air and future: movement, laughter and a good reason to believe restore you. You find emotional refuge in freedom, optimism and a wide perspective. You heal your emotions when you manage to see the whole picture and draw a life lesson from each experience.

The threshold · Ascendant

Birth time not documented

The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Honoré de Balzac, 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.

Harmonious aspectTense aspect

Section III · The detail

Planets and aspects

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

Honoré de Balzac'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 Taurus29°23
Moon Sagittarius15°32
Mercury Taurus11°52
Venus Cancer3°09
Mars Cancer7°57
Jupiter Gemini6°34
Saturn Cancer22°24
Uranus Virgo18°12
Neptune Scorpio13°16
Pluto Pisces3°09

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.

North Node15°44 Taurus

Not a body but a point of the Moon's orbit. It marks the direction of your growth.

Lilith20°20 Aries

The Black Moon: a mathematical point tied to the untamed and what refuses to submit.

Honoré de Balzac'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.

SunConjunction Jupiter7.2°
SunSextile Saturn7.0°
SunSquare Pluto3.8°
MoonOpposition Jupiter9.0°
MoonSquare Uranus2.7°
MercurySextile Mars3.9°
MercuryTrine Uranus6.3°
MercuryOpposition Neptune1.4°
VenusConjunction Mars4.8°
VenusTrine Pluto0.0°
MarsTrine Neptune5.3°
MarsTrine Pluto4.8°
JupiterSemisquare Saturn0.8°
JupiterSquare Pluto3.4°
SaturnSextile Uranus4.2°
UranusSextile Neptune4.9°

Elements and modalities

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

Fire1
Earth3
Air1
Water5
Cardinal3
Fixed3
Mutable4

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 Water and the Mutable modality.

Traits

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

Patterns
StelliumVenus · Mars · Saturn

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

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