Walter Piston
Born January 20, 1894
About This Birth Chart
Walter Piston, American composer, theorist, and academic (d. 1976)
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Birth Chart
Planet Positions
Aspects
Planetary positions are calculated using a noon reference time. Houses, the Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven, and IC are not shown. The Moon's exact position may vary depending on the actual birth time.
Q Sun in Aquarius (Detriment)
In Aquarius the Sun gives a quiet, patient, determined, unobtrusive and faithful nature, as a rule. The Aquarian is refined, pleasant friendly, generous, charitable, dignified and humanitarian, fond of art, music, scenery and literature; cautious, steady, intelligent, intuitive, discriminative, concentrative, studious, thoughtful and philosophical. Good reasoner, practical as well as theoretical; strong likes and dislikes and often with very radical and advanced ideas; is cheerful, sincere and honest, easily influenced by kindness, slow to anger but will not be driven; loves liberty and is fond of Occult research. Uranus is the planetary ruler of the sing Aquarius.
Longitudinal Aspects
Sun (Detriment) Semisquare Mars
Many ups and down and obstacles in the path of the desires. Impulse, pride and anger cause many difficulties; deaths, separations, litigation and enmities; hasty, fiery temper, through not lasting; ambition, love of enterprise but not enough continuity of application, confidence, faith and patience. Outspoken, assertive, aggressive, combative, defensive, impulsive, forceful, overbearing, destructive, self-willed, headstrong, audacious and sensual. Loses the esteem of superiors and those in high position. Danger through impulsive action, assaults, quarrels, accidents, fires, fevers, inflammatory complaints, surgical operations, short sudden, sharp attacks of sickness; cuts, burns, scalds. If Mars is in Capricorn or the Sun dignified it lessens the tendency to rashness, etc…
Sun (Detriment) Semisextile Lilith
Sun (Detriment) Quincunx Priapus
Moon (Ruler) Quincunx Mars
A person with ambitious goals and the drive to achieve them; implacable, an enthusiastic person, given to hard work and intense relationships, usually with a strong sexual element; highly emotion-driven; excels at physically demanding work.
Moon (Ruler) Trine Uranus
The native is active, firm, enterprising and scientific. Fond of friendship and the opposite sex. Success and gain through the occult, and through original, inventive and progressive people. The aspect tends to awaken the imaging faculties, quickens the though and intuition, leads the mind into original lines and gives interest in new methods, inventions, curiosities, etc.., giving mesmeric and psychic faculty; good for healing and telepathy. Benefit through business and novelties. A good aspect for an electric expert or worker. Inclination for and benefit through astrology. Advantageous changes and removals. Favors traveling and if either planet is in the Third or Ninth House, many journeys. If in the Fourth House, many changes of residence.
Moon (Ruler) Square North Node
Moon (Ruler) Square South Node
Mercury Square Saturn
The subject has great ambitions and desires for activity, success and mastery in lines coming under the Third, Sixth and Tenth House affairs, but his efforts are attended with delay, disappointments, obstacles and limitation, and in some cases he meets with criticism and opposition, open or secret, and his efforts are frequently thwarted and hindered or his plans overthrown. Encounters difficulty in acquiring an education and in all matters pertaining to books and studies. The retentive or memorizing faculty needs developing even though memory of events is strong. The aspect signifies great sorrow through death of brethren for father, probably both, or their ill health, separation or estrangement from them, although not necessarily through quarrels, but more as the result of circumstances. Trouble is occasioned through slander, false reports, forged letters or documents, unfriendly writings, delayed and misunderstood letters, and the subject may himself cause difficulty through these things. The effect on the nature is to make one sarcastic, bitter, impulsive and somewhat dissembling with periods of gloom, pessimism or exasperation, grave anxiety, worry, constant disturbance of the mind, errors or judgment, caused by fear, circumstances, lack of initiative, procrastination and continuos restriction of action. This lead the mind to meditate and endeavor to discover the reason for these undesirable manifestations, and from the attitude one may be prone to seek recourse in the study of Occult subjects and spiritual philosophy, and thus improve his responses to the aspect. If either planet be in or rule the Third or Ninth House it gives and inclination for science and Occult learning, which considerably improves the reaction to this aspect, but still there is liability to loss through failure, theft, fraud and deception; difficulty or loss in employment or thorough lack of employment, poor health often interfering; troubles through neighbors, servants, societies, associations, messengers, travelers, and by things ruled by the sign and house occupied. This is a bad aspect for the teeth, causing decay; also causes slow or poor circulation or digestion, bowel affliction, weakness, obstruction and constipation. People with the aspect or are annoyed with these latter troubles should avoid strong drinks or highly seasoned food.
Mercury Sesquiquadrate Neptune
Unreliability, obstacles and misfortune. The memory is apt to be poor, the mind vacillating and somewhat unpractical, affected by spells or periods of mental aberration, abstraction, lack of concentration, absentmindedness, dreaminess, or irresolution. It tends to nervousness, sensitiveness, restlessness, changes, and liability to trouble through slander, deception, imitation, fraud, intrigue, and bribery. Danger through drugs and poisons. Difficulties through changefulness, unexplainable psychic conditions, lack of cautious self-control and the liability to be led by the impulses, sensations, appetites, emotions, sympathy, and by the ideas, thoughts and advice of others, resulting in nervous, restless excitability, which exhausts the vital processes. Then native should benefit through study of dietetics.
Mercury Sesquiquadrate Pluto
Snap judgments made; ideas are grasped quickly but the native shows impatience with others who do not think the same manner. Skepticism and cynicism may turn into fanaticism, and obsession. Mental turmoil causes physical disorders. An inner restlessness may drive the native to obsessive search for new knowledge and Occult information. Preoccupation with death.
Venus Sextile Lilith
Venus Trine Priapus
Mars Semisextile Uranus
Massive amounts of energy; directs energy to fame; brings war to the world; aggressive; impulsive and impatient. This aspect signifies a great reservoir of physical energy and a special talent in Uranian endeavors and careers. In a man, this aspect is a Sexual Aspect, as well as often indicating a man who desires changes of sexual partners. Mars is the male sex planet, and the Uranian influence tends to cause Mars to fluctuate, thus changing the sexual attractions of the man. If the Personal Aspect is turbulent, the desire for a variation in sex partners is accentuated.
Mars Opposition Neptune
Gives a fondness for curiosities and travel; inclines to self-indulgence and feelings of self-sufficiency. Liable to trouble arising from relation with the opposite sex, also through scandal. Somewhat vague, indefinite or mysterious, obscure and secretive. Danger of loss and accident on or by water or liquids; through poisons, drugs or habits; also through thieves and acts of Nature. Trouble through duplicity, deception, fraud, imitation, racketeering, bribery, false accusation, and arrest. To psychic persons it gives liability to distraction or obsession (possession) and produces derangement, hallucination and strange ideas. If Mars or Neptune is well aspected or otherwise dignified, these testimonies are considerably modified.
Mars Trine North Node
Mars Sextile South Node
Jupiter Trine Chiron
This is one of the most powerful of all aspects, as this Super Aspect provides the native with a fabulous public image and a commanding presence, which instills confidence and wins trust. It foretells a great destiny and career and can result in noteworthy success, ultimate intuitive genius, and success through charisma in anything ruled by Chiron. No matter how powerful and helpful one aspect is, though, there is no substitute for hard work, determination, and tenacity.
Saturn Sesquiquadrate Neptune
Loss and difficulty through plots, treachery and failures, improperly timed activities, insufficient action, misinformation, misunderstanding, confusion or lack of co-ordination. Distressful psychic conditions. Complicated financial affairs; loss through speculation and difficulty through things indicated by the houses these planets occupy. Weird feelings liable to scandal, discredit, disrepute, criticism. Doubtful tastes, improper diet, inadequate health measures and accidents are apt to require hospitalization.
Saturn Sesquiquadrate Pluto
As with other negative Pluto aspects; jealousy, lust, dominance. The native strives for personal power and may withdraw himself from normal human contacts in order to achieve this aim. Destructive tendencies. Frustrated drives. Dishonesty regarding emotional interaction. Miscalculations of desire.
Uranus Quincunx North Node
Uranus Semisextile South Node
Uranus Semisquare Lilith
Uranus Sesquiquadrate Priapus
Neptune Conjunction Pluto
Power from ideas, religion, the sex act (as opposed to lovemaking) and anything ruled by Neptune; the ability to inject religion or ideas into a power struggle; adept at seizing power through religion or ideas; big business from original ideas, talent artistry or other Neptunian symbolisms (it also means success form such activities because Pluto rules big business, and you cannot attain big business without success); for athletes, this is also an energy and coordination enhancer to the other pairing in an M/Q, especially if the other pairing includes Mars, Mercury, or Sun. Also obsessive or powerful and long lasting sexual desire lust and stamina.
Declination Aspects
Sun (Detriment) Contra-Parallel Neptune
Unstable, with a tendency toward discord in relationships; lacking determination; often given to weird relationships, desires; sapped of vitality; robust health and longevity turns to poor health and hospitalization due to ailment of undeterminable nature or origin; creative vision turns to preoccupation with the mysterious; confusion; absence of clear thought; lax morality; vulnerable to fraud, deception; frequent misunderstandings, loss of trust.
Mercury Parallel Mars
Lightening-fast mind reflexes; energized respiratory capabilities, great for runners; mind over body in that the mind controls the muscles, this pairing provides the ability to quickly learn complicated physical routines such as dance steps; military tactician.
Venus Parallel Saturn
Desire to have control over money and personal relationships, if this paring is quadralized with a Jupiter pairing, there is ability to make money; money from discipline, such persons place the value of money higher than the personal life; not stylish and not fashionable, such persons will not dress like the models on the cover of Vogue magazine; sometimes this person is unable to truly love anyone and is generally less emotional than most.
