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Image: Wikimedia CommonsWriting & thought · October 28, 1433 · Figline Valdarno
Marsilio Ficino's Birth Chart
Sun in Scorpio · Moon in Capricorn
Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. Wikipedia
Sun in Scorpio
4°51′Your core is intensity: living fully, transforming yourself and looking where others turn away. Your essence grows stronger in depth, transformation and naked truth. You need to cross the shadows, let go of what is obsolete and be reborn with greater inner solidity.
Moon in Capricorn
12°24′Your emotions are sober and deep: it's hard for you to ask, but you hold like a mountain. Your emotional world seeks refuge in restraint, work, pragmatism and self-control. You show affection by supporting and protecting your own, and you find peace when you feel you hold the reins of your life.
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Marsilio Ficino, 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.
Marsilio Ficino'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 | Scorpio | 4°51′ |
| Moon | Capricorn | 12°24′ |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 28°04′ |
| Venus | Virgo | 20°05′ |
| Mars | Capricorn | 29°46′ |
| Jupiter | Leo | 18°35′ |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 12°02′ |
| Uranus | Taurus ℞ | 5°18′ |
| Neptune | Leo | 22°43′ |
| Pluto | Cancer ℞ | 12°15′ |
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.
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.
Marsilio Ficino'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 Fixed modality.
Uranus is the most connected planet in their chart: 6 aspects tie it to the rest.
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.
And your own sky?
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