Image: Wikimedia CommonsWriting & thought · January 5, 1932 · Alessandria
Umberto Eco's Birth Chart
Sun in Capricorn · Moon in Sagittarius
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement. Wikipedia
Sun in Capricorn
13°57′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.
Moon in Sagittarius
12°11′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.
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Umberto Eco, 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.
Umberto Eco'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 | 13°57′ |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 12°11′ |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 21°39′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 13°15′ |
| Mars | Capricorn | 20°14′ |
| Jupiter | Leo ℞ | 21°29′ |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 24°17′ |
| Uranus | Aries | 15°29′ |
| Neptune | Virgo ℞ | 7°49′ |
| Pluto | Cancer ℞ | 21°13′ |
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.
The wounded healer: a small icy body between Saturn and Uranus. It marks the wound that, once moved through, teaches.
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.
Umberto Eco'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 Cardinal modality.
Pluto is the most connected planet in their chart: 8 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Capricorn: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
Three planets in trine forming a triangle: a talent that flows almost effortlessly.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
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