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Louis XVI of France's Birth Chart
Sun in Virgo · Moon in Scorpio
Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765. In 1770, he married Marie Antoinette. He became King of France and Navarre on his paternal grandfather's death on 10 May 1774, and reigned until the abolition of the monarchy on 21 September 1792. From 1791 onwards, he used the style of king of the French. Wikipedia
Sun in Virgo
0°09′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 Scorpio
11°15′You feel with a passionate, intuitive intensity: all or nothing, with an emotional memory that neither forgets nor betrays. Your security comes from deep loyalty, emotional honesty and the ability to regenerate after any crisis.
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Louis XVI of France, 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.
Louis XVI of France'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 | 0°09′ |
| Moon | Scorpio | 11°15′ |
| Mercury | Virgo ℞ | 0°02′ |
| Venus | Libra | 7°14′ |
| Mars | Virgo | 21°36′ |
| Jupiter | Leo | 29°04′ |
| Saturn | Capricorn ℞ | 11°19′ |
| Uranus | Pisces ℞ | 9°44′ |
| Neptune | Leo | 7°09′ |
| Pluto | Sagittarius | 11°11′ |
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.
Louis XVI of France'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.
Splay
Your planets gather in irregular clusters: several well-defined centres of energy.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Earth and the Mutable modality.
Uranus is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Virgo: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
And your own sky?
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