Frederick Ashton’s birth chart
Born 17 September 1904, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Virgo Sun · Capricorn Moon
Frederick Ashton’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Frederick Ashton was born on Saturday, 17 September 1904, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. That made Frederick a Virgo, with the Moon in Capricorn. Frederick died on 18 August 1988, aged 83. StarMap has no verified birth time for Frederick, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is three fire, three earth, three air and one water. By modality the count is four cardinal, four mutable and two fixed. The tightest aspect is Mars sextile Pluto, about 0.4° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Three planets were retrograde: Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. Over the course of the day the Moon went from first quarter to waxing gibbous.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 17 September, among them Anastacia, Jimmie Johnson and Anne Bancroft.
See the sky the day Frederick was born: the stars over Guayaquil, Ecuador, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Frederick Ashton’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Virgo
about 24° Virgo at midday
A Virgo Sun refines. Frederick Ashton is likely to notice what could be better and quietly make it so, keeping the highest standards for themselves. The art of this placement is knowing when good enough is the wiser choice.
Moon sign
Capricorn
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Capricorn Moon feels responsibly. With it, Frederick may hold themselves together for other people, and can be hard on themselves when they cannot. This Moon tends to be restored by accomplishment, by structure, and by the rare person allowed to see them tired.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Guayaquil, Ecuador, at each hour of the day.
Frederick Ashton’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Frederick yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 17 September 1904, computed for Guayaquil, Ecuador.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:26 | Gemini rising |
| 00:26 to 02:36 | Cancer rising |
| 02:36 to 04:31 | Leo rising |
| 04:31 to 06:21 | Virgo rising |
| 06:21 to 08:11 | Libra rising |
| 08:11 to 10:11 | Scorpio rising |
| 10:11 to 12:16 | Sagittarius rising |
| 12:16 to 14:26 | Capricorn rising |
| 14:26 to 16:26 | Aquarius rising |
| 16:26 to 18:21 | Pisces rising |
| 18:21 to 20:11 | Aries rising |
| 20:11 to 22:16 | Taurus rising |
| 22:16 to 24:00 | Gemini rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 17 September 1904, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 24° Virgo 21' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Capricorn |
| Mercury | 21° Virgo 08'℞ |
| Venus | 13° Libra 45' |
| Mars | 21° Leo 21' |
| Jupiter | 28° Aries 53'℞ |
| Saturn | 15° Aquarius 08'℞ |
| Uranus | 26° Sagittarius 01' |
| Neptune | 8° Cancer 01' |
| Pluto | 21° Gemini 43' |
| North Node | 18° Virgo 29' |
| South Node | 18° Pisces 29' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Frederick Ashton’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Frederick Ashton’s private life.
A Virgo Sun finds purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and Frederick Ashton's energy tends to stay steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. Rest is the hard part, because it can feel undeserved until everything is fixed. Typically a piece of work is still being adjusted long after everyone else would call it finished.
With the Moon in Capricorn, Frederick's comfort probably comes from accomplishing something concrete each day, and an unproductive day can leave them oddly unsettled even on holiday. Harder feelings tend to be kept for when they are alone. Before rest is allowed there is usually one more thing to tidy, organise or finish.
For Frederick, Mercury in Virgo points to thinking that is precise and attentive to detail, and to clear communication, because the facts have usually been checked first. The catch is fixating on a small error and losing sight of the larger point. This is the placement that edits a message three times before sending something everyone else would have sent in one go.
Venus in Libra loves with an instinct for balance and partnership, and Frederick probably values harmony, fairness and someone who makes an effort to look good together. The risk with this Venus is staying in a relationship for the sake of the pairing itself. Frederick may give up a personal preference before anyone has even asked.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Frederick its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.
Jupiter in Aries
28° Aries 53' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aries grows through bold, direct action and taking the first step before feeling fully ready. Frederick's overreach, on this reading, is starting more than can realistically be finished. A burst of confidence tends to get a new venture off the ground, whether or not the groundwork is in place.
With Saturn in Aquarius, Frederick's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.
Uranus in Sagittarius
26° Sagittarius 01' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Sagittarius is less about Frederick than about the years around their birth. People of that age transform belief and access to knowledge, often through unprecedented exposure to other cultures and ideas. The personal trace is a restlessness with any single worldview presented as the only one.
Neptune in Cancer
8° Cancer 01' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Frederick and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Pluto in Gemini
21° Gemini 43' at midday
power, generational
Frederick shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects in Frederick Ashton’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mars sextile Pluto
about 0.4° at midday
This sextile joins drive to depth, so resilience and follow-through are likely to be available to Frederick Ashton without constant conflict. Frederick is likely to handle pressure better than most, and at a lower cost than expected, largely because a fight is rarely needed to prove the point.
Mercury square Pluto
about 0.6° at midday
A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as Frederick looks for motives that may not be there. The lesson is trusting a straightforward answer when the evidence supports one, rather than assuming the deeper explanation is always the true one.
Venus trine Saturn
about 1.4° at midday
A steady, dependable way of loving, one that people trust, is what this trine gives Frederick, since affection and commitment hold each other up. Relationships built on it tend to last, often well past the point where less committed people would have moved on.
Sun square Uranus
about 1.7° at midday
When the Sun is square Uranus, Frederick's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.
Sun square Pluto
about 2.6° at midday
With this aspect, Frederick's identity can get entangled in struggles over control, whether inwardly or with people who challenge them. Whenever Frederick chooses to change rather than to dominate, the friction turns into hard-won strength they can rely on the next time things get difficult.
Jupiter trine Uranus
about 2.9° at midday
Jupiter trine Uranus gives Frederick a knack for spotting unconventional opportunities before other people do, which is what a sense of possibility and originality produce together. Growth arrives through new directions, ones a more cautious approach would probably have missed.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Sun conjunction Mercuryabout 3.2°
- Uranus opposition Plutoabout 4.3°
- Mars trine Uranusabout 4.7°
- Mercury square Uranusabout 4.9°
- Venus square Neptuneabout 5.7°
- Mars opposition Saturnabout 6.2°
- Saturn trine Plutoabout 6.6°
Virgo Sun and Capricorn Moon, like Frederick Ashton
Also born on 17 September
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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