Artist
Vija Celmins
Ocean surfaces and night skies drawn in graphite over months at a time.
Vija Celmins is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Based in New York City, she has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions since 1965, and major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
- Born
- 1938-10-25, Riga, LatviaA Tuesday
- At birth
- Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- Latvia
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1938-10-25, Riga, Latvia · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Rigathe zone used then
Europe/RigaThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 1°20′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 25°51′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 10°59′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 4°24′ | Direct |
| Mars | Libra | 0°05′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 22°27′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aries | 13°18′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 16°23′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 22°18′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 1°29′ | Direct |
Vija Celmins is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Vija Celmins was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.