Mazal Capricorn · rising Virgo
Marlene Dietrich's mazal
German actress and singer — born 27 December 1901 at 9:15 pm, in Berlin
18 Tevet 5662
י״ח טֵבֵת תרס״ב
Born after sunset — the sun went down at 3:59 pm in Berlin that day. In the Hebrew calendar the day begins at dusk, so her date is the following one.
| Birth | 27 December 1901, 9:15 pm, Berlin |
| Source of the time | birth certificate |
| Sunset | 3:59 pm that day |
| Hebrew date | 18 Tevet 5662 |
| Hebrew month | Tevet טֵבֵת |
| Sign (mazal) | Capricorn גדי |
| Rising sign | Virgo |
| Planet of the month | Saturn |
| Element | Earth |
| Tribe of Israel | Gad |
| Gemstone | The amethyst (achlamah) |
Born at 9:15 pm, after sunset: her Hebrew date is the following day. In Berlin in late December the sun sets before four — more than five hours earlier. Tevet is the month of narrowing, the one you hold on through.
The chart in a paragraph
Capricorn, rising Virgo
Tevet under Saturn: Capricorn is the mountain, the discipline, the slow climb of someone who never steps back. Virgo was rising — precision, control, nothing out of place. Two signs of earth: an iron sky, where the front is held as tightly as the ground.
This is what tradition reads in that sky — and it sets its own limit at once: “Israel is above the mazal” (Shabbat 156a). A sky describes a slope, never a fate.
What tradition says
The month of Tevet, not the person
What you read here describes a month of the Hebrew calendar: its mazal, its planet, its element, its tribe and its stone, as reported by the Talmud, the Book of Creation and the Book of the Angel Raziel. Nothing is asserted about Marlene Dietrich's character — we give a date, a time, and what tradition attaches to the month. Not a portrait.
The rising sign does not depend on the month but on the time and the place: it is the sign that was climbing the eastern horizon at the moment of birth. It changes roughly every two hours — without an exact time it cannot be calculated. That is why this page only presents births whose hour is on record.
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