Image: Wikimedia CommonsArt · August 29, 1780 · Montauban
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Birth Chart
Sun in Virgo · Moon in Leo ≈
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists. 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.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Sun, in Virgo
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.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Moon, in Leo
Your heart needs to be seen, needs warmth and room to show itself as it is: loyalty and sincere recognition are your emotional nourishment. You feel magnanimously and need your affections to affirm your true self.
Without an exact birth time, the Moon could fall in the neighbouring sign: it changed sign that day.
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.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres'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 | 6°38′ |
| Moon | Leo | 29°59′ |
| Mercury | Virgo ℞ | 4°30′ |
| Venus | Leo ℞ | 10°03′ |
| Mars | Leo | 22°50′ |
| Jupiter | Libra | 24°53′ |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 2°20′ |
| Uranus | Gemini | 27°56′ |
| Neptune | Libra | 2°25′ |
| Pluto | Aquarius ℞ | 3°14′ |
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres'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 Fixed modality.
Moon is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Leo: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
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