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Image: Wikimedia CommonsWriting & thought · September 25, 1897 · New Albany
William Faulkner's Birth Chart
Sun in Libra · Moon in Virgo
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Wikipedia
Sun in Libra
2°40′Your identity seeks balance and harmony: beauty, fair agreement and the art of being in relationship. Your purpose flourishes when you build bridges, weigh nuances and look for the right balance in relationships.
Moon in Virgo
18°24′You settle by ordering: your emotions are tended with kind routines and useful gestures, not with high drama. You heal what you feel when you give it a practical form, analysing and caring for the details of daily life.
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for William Faulkner, 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.
William Faulkner'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 | Libra | 2°40′ |
| Moon | Virgo | 18°24′ |
| Mercury | Virgo ℞ | 26°38′ |
| Venus | Leo | 28°37′ |
| Mars | Libra | 20°08′ |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 23°20′ |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 26°47′ |
| Uranus | Scorpio | 26°10′ |
| Neptune | Gemini ℞ | 22°33′ |
| Pluto | Gemini ℞ | 14°42′ |
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.
William Faulkner'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.
Bowl
Your planets fill half the chart: one half full, one empty, like something you seek to complete.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Air and the Mutable modality.
Mercury is the most connected planet in their chart: 8 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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