Image: Wikimedia CommonsArt · December 31, 1869 · Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Henri Matisse's Birth Chart
Sun in Capricorn · Moon in Sagittarius
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. 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.
Henri Matisse's Sun, in Capricorn
Your centre is mastery: patient ambition, responsibility and works that hold others up.
Henri Matisse's Moon, in Sagittarius
Your spirit needs air and future: movement, laughter and a good reason to believe repair you.
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.
Henri Matisse'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 | 9°55′ |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 20°51′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 20°17′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 25°55′ |
| Mars | Capricorn | 25°50′ |
| Jupiter | Taurus ℞ | 11°01′ |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 21°56′ |
| Uranus | Cancer ℞ | 20°22′ |
| Neptune | Aries | 16°46′ |
| Pluto | Taurus ℞ | 16°11′ |
Henri Matisse'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 Earth and the Cardinal modality.
Neptune is the most connected planet in their chart: 6 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Capricorn: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
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