Birth chart

James Prescott Joule

Scientists1818 – 1889Born 24 December 1818 · Salfordtime unknown

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Time unknown — no reliable birth time, so houses and the Ascendant are left out and the Moon is shown as a range.

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Sun

Capricorn

Moon

Scorpio

Rising

Unknown

The Ascendant needs an exact birth time, which we don't have for this chart.

Chart wheel

Sun conjunct Venus · orb 3°29′Sun conjunct Neptune · orb 5°44′Sun trine North Node · orb 4°36′Sun sextile South Node · orb 4°36′Sun opposite Lilith · orb 5°25′Mercury conjunct Jupiter · orb 2°14′Mercury sextile Pluto · orb 2°33′Mercury sextile Chiron · orb 0°43′Venus opposite Lilith · orb 1°56′Mars conjunct Uranus · orb 0°51′Mars conjunct Neptune · orb 4°31′Mars square Pluto · orb 2°29′Mars square Chiron · orb 0°47′Jupiter sextile Chiron · orb 1°31′Uranus conjunct Neptune · orb 5°22′Uranus square Pluto · orb 3°20′Uranus square Chiron · orb 0°05′Neptune square Pluto · orb 2°02′Neptune trine North Node · orb 1°07′Neptune sextile South Node · orb 1°07′Pluto conjunct Chiron · orb 3°16′Sun — Capricorn 2°09′ · +1.02°/day2°09′Mercury — Capricorn 21°51′ · +0.82°/day21°51′Venus — Capricorn 5°38′ ℞ · −0.60°/day5°38′Mars — Sagittarius 21°55′ · +0.74°/day21°55′Jupiter — Capricorn 19°37′ · +0.23°/day19°37′Saturn — Pisces 12°48′ · +0.07°/day12°48′Uranus — Sagittarius 21°03′ · +0.06°/day21°03′Neptune — Sagittarius 26°25′ · +0.04°/day26°25′Pluto — Pisces 24°23′ · +0.01°/day24°23′North Node — Aries 27°33′ ℞ · −0.05°/day27°33′South Node — Libra 27°33′ ℞ · −0.05°/day27°33′Chiron — Pisces 21°08′ · +0.02°/day21°08′Lilith — Cancer 7°34′ · +0.11°/day7°34′
AspectsAngles (ASC/MC)· Hover a planet or aspect for details

Positions from a Swiss-ephemeris engine · houses & angles omitted (time unknown)

Reading the placements

These notes describe the chart, not the person — a lens for reflection.

Sun in Capricorn

In the astrological tradition, the Sun is your core self, and in Capricorn it grows through purpose, patience, and building something real over time. There's a pull toward responsibility and mastery — a willingness to climb slowly and carry weight others put down. People often experience this as capable and steady, and sometimes as too hard on themselves, measuring worth by output. The theme worth exploring is where the mountain came from — whose summit you're climbing, and whether reaching it still feels like yours. Rest can be pictured without first earning it, once the climb stops standing in for proof and the drive reads as a resource to aim rather than a debt that keeps coming due.

Moon in Scorpio

Astrologers read the Moon in Scorpio as a deep, private well. Your feelings run stronger than you usually show, and safety means trust that has been earned, not assumed. You soothe yourself through intensity and truth — a bond where nothing has to be hidden, a subject you can sink all the way into. This is a focused placement, not a doomed one. Its theme is control: how much to reveal, when to let someone all the way in, how to feel deeply without going under. The question of the season is less about guarding the gate and more about which door might safely open. Someone in your life has likely earned more trust than you've let them hold, and the well loses none of its depth for letting one more person near it.

The astronomy

The raw computed positions behind this chart — the same numbers any ephemeris would give.

Positions

BodySign & degree
SunCapricorn 2°09′
MercuryCapricorn 21°51′
VenusCapricorn 5°38′
MarsSagittarius 21°55′
JupiterCapricorn 19°37′
SaturnPisces 12°48′
UranusSagittarius 21°03′
NeptuneSagittarius 26°25′
PlutoPisces 24°23′
North NodeAries 27°33′
South NodeLibra 27°33′
ChironPisces 21°08′
LilithCancer 7°34′

Aspects · sorted by strength

  • 0°05′
  • 0°51′
  • 0°47′
  • 3°29′
  • 1°07′
  • 5°25′
  • 1°56′
  • 5°44′

Chart emphasis

Elements

Earth57%
Fire27%
Water17%
Air0%

Leading: Earth

Modalities

Cardinal57%
Mutable43%
Fixed0%

Leading: Cardinal

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