Edgar Degas's Birth Chart
Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834 at 20:00 in Paris, France. The chart has the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Capricorn, with Aquarius rising.
| Born | July 19, 1834 |
| Time | 20:00 |
| Place | Paris, France |
Edgar Degas's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Cancer: The Kept Circle
You become yourself by belonging somewhere. Who you are is bound up with the people and places you have claimed as yours, and your vitality rises and falls with how safe that circle feels. Others meet a protective warmth first, then a shell that closes when something touches a tender spot. Memory is long, and your sense of purpose often shows up as looking after a person, a family or a home. Moods move through you like weather, and the people closest to you learn the forecast.
Moon in Capricorn: Competence as Comfort
You feel safest when you are capable, and comfort comes from a job done well, a bill paid, a plan that holds. Feelings are private and processed slowly, often through work rather than conversation, and you can seem cool to people who want an immediate reaction. Early life may have asked you to be older than you were, and you carry that reserve into how you ask for care, which is rarely and sideways. You show love by showing up, on time, every time, long after louder people have left.
Aquarius rising: Friendly From a Distance
You arrive as the person slightly apart from the group, friendly to everyone and belonging to no one in particular. Strangers meet a level gaze, an even voice, and an interest that treats them as one more specimen of a fascinating species. Your body keeps its own temperature in a room that is heating up, which makes you the one people turn to when things go wrong and the one they find hard to read when things go right. Being different is how you look, not something you decided.
Planet positions in Edgar Degas's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 26°34′ |
| Moon | Capricorn | 14°45′ |
| Mercury | Leo | 18°47′ |
| Venus | Virgo | 0°36′ |
| Mars | Taurus | 22°21′ |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 4°06′ |
| Saturn | Libra | 5°30′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Aquarius | 25°41′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Aquarius | 0°19′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Aries | 13°49′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Gemini | 26°32′ |
| Chiron | Gemini | 0°54′ |
| Ascendant | Aquarius | 0°07′ |
| Midheaven | Scorpio | 29°21′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 2, Earth 3, Air 4, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 4, Mutable 2.
A air emphasis
An air emphasis makes you mental, social, and idea-driven: you live in thought, communication, and connection, weighing things from a distance.
The tightest aspects in Edgar Degas's chart
- Venus square Chiron, orb 0°18′
- Neptune trine Chiron, orb 0°35′
- Uranus trine North Node, orb 0°51′
- Moon square Pluto, orb 0°56′
- Jupiter trine Saturn, orb 1°23′
- Jupiter conjunct Chiron, orb 3°12′
- Mars square Uranus, orb 3°20′
- Venus square Jupiter, orb 3°31′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Venus square Chiron: Worth Against Wound
There's a tender spot where being valued and being hurt got wired together, and it presses on everything you find beautiful. Compliments land oddly, prices feel personal, and affection can arrive with a small ache attached. What this pressure builds is a real eye for other people's insecurity about their own worth, plus taste that came from being sore about something.
Neptune trine Chiron: Effortless Merciful Reading
You read damage in other people without trying, the way some people read a room's temperature. Because it flows, there is no gate on it: their sorrow arrives inside you unlabeled and you absorb illness, mood, and story alike. The same channel that makes you a natural comfort also makes you a natural sponge.
Uranus trine North Node: Growth Runs Electric
Change comes easy to you, which is not automatically good. Your forward path and your break-the-mold instinct feed each other without resistance, so you can leave a good structure just because leaving feels like movement. Whatever pattern you are running, this amplifies it, including restlessness.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Edgar Degas's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.