Birth Chart
George Gissing
George Robert Gissing
Sun Scorpio
Moon Aquarius
Ascendant Scorpio
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Scorpio - 29°54' - in house 2
↣ Moon in Aquarius - 00°40' - in house 4
↣ Mercury in Sagittarius - 01°32' - in house 2
↣ Venus in Scorpio - 06°23' - in house 1
↣ Mars in Libra - 03°26' - in house 11/12
↣ Jupiter in Taurus - 08°28' - in house 7 - retrograde
↣ Saturn in Cancer - 28°13' - in house 9 - retrograde
↣ Uranus in Taurus - 27°05' - in house 8 - retrograde
↣ Neptune in Pisces - 19°55' - in house 5 - retrograde
↣ Pluto in Taurus - 05°11' - in house 7 - retrograde
↣ North Node in Pisces - 24°32' - in house 5 - retrograde
↣ Ascendant in Scorpio - 00°28' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Leo - 12°11' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Scorpio - 17°07'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 2
↣ Moon in house 4
↣ Mercury in house 2
↣ Venus in house 1
↣ Mars in house 11/12
↣ Jupiter in house 7
↣ Saturn in house 9
↣ Uranus in house 8
↣ Neptune in house 5
↣ Pluto in house 7
↣ North Node in house 5
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Moon sextile (0°47' separating)
↣ Sun and Mercury conjunction (1°38' separating) parallel
↣ Sun and Mars sextile (3°33' applying)
↣ Sun and Saturn trine (1°41' separating) antiparallel
↣ Sun and Uranus opposition (2°48' separating) antiparallel
↣ Sun and North Node trine (5°22' separating)
↣ Moon and Mercury sextile (0°52' applying)
↣ Moon and Venus square (5°43' applying)
↣ Moon and Mars trine (2°46' applying)
↣ Moon and Saturn opposition (2°28' separating)
↣ Moon and Uranus trine (3°35' separating)
↣ Moon and Pluto square (4°31' applying)
↣ Moon and Ascendant square (0°12' applying)
↣ Moon and Midheaven opposition (11°31' separating)
↣ Mercury and Mars sextile (1°54' applying)
↣ Mercury and Saturn trine (3°19' separating) antiparallel
↣ Mercury and Uranus opposition (4°26' separating)
↣ Venus and Jupiter opposition (2°05' applying) antiparallel
↣ Venus and Pluto opposition (1°12' separating)
↣ Venus and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (10°44' separating)
↣ Venus and Ascendant conjunction (5°55' applying) parallel
↣ Venus and Midheaven square (5°48' separating)
↣ Mars and Saturn sextile (5°14' separating)
↣ Mars and North Node opposition (8°54' separating)
↣ Mars and Equatorial Ascendant parallel
↣ Jupiter and Pluto conjunction (3°17' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (8°39' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Ascendant opposition (8°00' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Midheaven square (3°43' separating)
↣ Saturn and Uranus sextile (1°07' separating)
↣ Saturn and North Node trine (3°41' separating)
↣ Saturn and Ascendant square (2°15' separating)
↣ Uranus and North Node sextile (2°34' separating)
↣ Uranus and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (9°58' applying)
↣ Neptune and North Node conjunction (4°37' applying)
↣ Neptune and Equatorial Ascendant trine (2°47' applying)
↣ Pluto and North Node parallel
↣ Pluto and Ascendant opposition (4°43' applying)
Birth data
- Original name
- George Robert Gissing
- Chart date
- 22/11/1857
- Chart time
- 05:00
- Date and time quality
- B Biography/autobiography what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Wakefield, England - Latitude and longitude
- 53°42' North · 1°29' West
- Time zone
- 00:00
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About
George Robert Gissing was an English novelist active between 1880 and 1903, the author of 23 novels that earned him critical recognition in his own time and later reassessment as a literary figure. His best-known works — The Nether World, New Grub Street, Born in Exile and The Odd Women — examine the social and professional tensions of the late nineteenth century, especially the difficulties and ambitions of the middle classes and aspiring writers.
The son of a chemist and druggist, Gissing received a classical and Victorian education and maintained an intimate relationship with reading; these experiences permeate his realist prose. He endured long periods of precarity, worked as a tutor and freelance writer, and drew on urban observations of London to portray the lives of the poor and literary professionals with social and psychological rigor.
His career combined a regularly prolific output with troubled personal episodes — separations, privations and geographical moves — that shaped recurring themes in his novels: frustrated ambition, isolation and the social cost of modernity. Today Gissing retains a small but devoted readership, and his narratives continue to be reissued for their documentary precision and moral density.
