Image: Wikimedia CommonsArt · November 28, 1757 · London
William Blake's Birth Chart
Sun in Sagittarius · Moon in Cancer
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself". 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.
William Blake's Sun, in Sagittarius
Your identity is an arrow: meaning, horizon, the faith that there's always wider ground. It expands through the search for meaning, adventure and trust in life. You need wide horizons, philosophy and constant learning in order to make sense of existence.
William Blake's Moon, in Cancer
You have deep intuition and a very rich emotional world, a profound sensitivity that registers everything and needs a den to process it: your natural refuge is home, intimacy and the bonds that make you feel safe and among family.
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.
William Blake'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 | Sagittarius | 6°32′ |
| Moon | Cancer | 8°07′ |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 26°27′ |
| Venus | Capricorn | 18°41′ |
| Mars | Leo | 20°11′ |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 0°54′ |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 16°47′ |
| Uranus | Pisces | 19°17′ |
| Neptune | Leo ℞ | 15°21′ |
| Pluto | Sagittarius | 20°05′ |
William Blake's aspects
Each aspect is an angle between two planets; it defines how they speak to each other.
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.
Seesaw
Your planets gather in two opposite groups: you live in the push and pull between them.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Fire and the Fixed modality.
Mars is the most connected planet in their chart: 5 aspects tie it to the rest.
Moon forms no aspects: it expresses its energy with total independence.
Three or more planets together in Sagittarius: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
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