stands among the towering minds of the Scottish Enlightenment, the philosopher, historian and economist whose radical empiricism argued that all we truly know comes from experience, and that reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions. Born in Edinburgh in 1711, he built his system the way a Taurus builds anything: patiently, from the ground up, laying a foundation of unshakeable conclusions. The Bull holds solid opinions, and God or the universe could beg a Taurus to change his mind and get nowhere. That earthy stubbornness let him question causality itself and refuse the argument from design when religious orthodoxy pressed hard against him. Fittingly Venusian too, this was a man famous for his fondness for good port and cheese, his five senses well satisfied.
Beneath that grounded pillar lay a Capricorn Moon, the child who grew up fast. His father died before Hume turned two, and his mother raised him alone on slender means, that dutiful, stoic emotional weather woven early into his temperament. Saturn's Moon breeds sober self-reliance and quiet endurance, and Hume spent ten disciplined years reading and writing toward his Treatise. Patient earth below, patient earth above.
Date: 7 May 1711
Time: 12:00
Latitude: 55.953252°
Longitude: -3.188267°
Location: Edinburgh, UK
The accuracy of the natal data for this archive is rated X (No time). A known birth date but no birth time. House cusps and the Ascendant cannot be placed with confidence.
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Sun in Taurus
Moon in Capricorn
Aspects (Hard) Sun-Conjunction-Mercury
Northnode in Aquarius, Southnode in Leo
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The Four Pillars of Destiny (八字) for this birth: a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch, with its zodiac animal, for each pillar. The hour pillar is omitted as the birth time is unknown.
日主 · Day Master
Nurturing and resourceful, like fertile soil: supportive, practical and quietly cultivating growth in the people you tend.
Year
Xin
Yin Metal
Mao
Rabbit · Wood
納音 松柏木
藏干 Hidden Stems
Yi 七殺 Seven Killings
Month
Gui
Yin Water
Si
Snake · Fire
納音 長流水
藏干 Hidden Stems
Bing 正印 Direct Resource
Wu 劫財 Rob Wealth
Geng 傷官 Hurting Officer
Day
Ji
Yin Earth
You
Rooster · Metal
納音 大驛土
藏干 Hidden Stems
Xin 食神 Eating God
from age 1
Ren Chen
Water · Dragon
from age 11
Xin Mao
Metal · Rabbit
from age 21
Geng Yin
Metal · Tiger
from age 31
Ji Chou
Earth · Ox
from age 41
Wu Zi
Earth · Rat
from age 51
Ding Hai
Fire · Pig
from age 61
Bing Xu
Fire · Dog
from age 71
Yi You
Wood · Rooster
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