Birth chart

Marcel Proust

Writers1871 – 1922Born 10 July 1871 · 16th arrondissement of Paristime unknown

How sure are we about this chart?S5

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

Every figure gets a data-confidence rating for its birth time. Where the time is unknown, we compute a partial chart rather than guess. How we build this base

Sun

Cancer

Moon

Aries → Taurus

The Moon changed signs that day — without a birth time we show the range, not a guess.

Rising

Unknown

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

Chart wheel

Sun conjunct Mercury · orb 1°13′Sun square Mars · orb 6°30′Sun conjunct Jupiter · orb 7°08′Sun square Neptune · orb 6°16′Sun sextile Pluto · orb 1°53′Sun square Chiron · orb 6°21′Mercury conjunct Jupiter · orb 5°55′Mercury sextile Pluto · orb 3°05′Venus trine Saturn · orb 2°39′Venus sextile North Node · orb 2°21′Venus trine South Node · orb 2°21′Mars square Jupiter · orb 0°38′Mars opposite Chiron · orb 0°09′Mars trine Lilith · orb 4°26′Jupiter opposite Saturn · orb 4°51′Jupiter square Chiron · orb 0°47′Saturn opposite North Node · orb 5°00′Saturn conjunct South Node · orb 5°00′Uranus square Neptune · orb 2°17′Sun — Cancer 17°43′ · +0.95°/day17°43′Mercury — Cancer 16°30′ · +2.16°/day16°30′Venus — Virgo 3°04′ · +1.01°/day3°04′Mars — Libra 11°13′ · +0.51°/day11°13′Jupiter — Cancer 10°35′ · +0.23°/day10°35′Saturn — Capricorn 5°44′ ℞ · −0.07°/day5°44′Uranus — Cancer 26°16′ · +0.06°/day26°16′Neptune — Aries 23°59′ · +0.01°/day23°59′Pluto — Taurus 19°36′ · +0.01°/day19°36′North Node — Cancer 0°44′ · +0.01°/day0°44′South Node — Capricorn 0°44′ · +0.01°/day0°44′Chiron — Aries 11°22′ · +0.00°/day11°22′Lilith — Gemini 15°39′ · +0.11°/day15°39′
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 Cancer

In the astrological tradition, the Sun is your core self, and in Cancer it grows through feeling and belonging. There's a pull toward care, memory, home, and protecting what's tender — yours and other people's. This placement is often experienced as warm and deeply loyal, and sometimes as a shell that goes up when things feel unsafe. The theme worth exploring is the difference between protecting yourself and hiding: both look similar from the outside. Protecting yourself and hiding can pass for one another until you let a little of the tenderness be seen, which is the moment they finally part ways.

The astronomy

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

Positions

BodySign & degree
SunCancer 17°43′
MercuryCancer 16°30′
VenusVirgo 3°04′
MarsLibra 11°13′
JupiterCancer 10°35′
SaturnCapricorn 5°44′
UranusCancer 26°16′
NeptuneAries 23°59′
PlutoTaurus 19°36′
North NodeCancer 0°44′
South NodeCapricorn 0°44′
ChironAries 11°22′
LilithGemini 15°39′

Aspects · sorted by strength

  • 0°09′
  • 1°13′
  • 0°38′
  • 0°47′
  • 1°53′
  • 7°08′
  • 6°16′
  • 6°21′

Chart emphasis

Elements

Water50%
Earth30%
Air13%
Fire7%

Leading: Water

Modalities

Cardinal80%
Mutable13%
Fixed7%

Leading: Cardinal

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