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Alicia Keys.

25 January 1981 · 08:45 · New York, New York

Alicia Keys's birth chart: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Libra, Pisces rising. Born January 25, 1981 in New York, New York.

About this chart

What is Alicia Keys's sun sign?

Alicia Keys's sun is in Aquarius.

What is Alicia Keys's moon sign?

Alicia Keys's moon is in Libra.

What is Alicia Keys's rising sign?

Alicia Keys's Rising (Ascendant) is Pisces.

When and where was Alicia Keys born?

Alicia Keys was born January 25, 1981 in New York, New York.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of air and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAquarius · 12th house

The self is found in the original angle. Independent, future-facing, often standing just outside the gravity of the room, and the contribution is the difference itself. Lesson: belong without being swallowed. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonLibra · 7th house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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RisingPisces · the doorway

You arrive and adjust to the room. The body responds to whatever atmosphere it finds, taking on the quality of the container. People feel a quiet attunement they cannot name. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Libra in the 7th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Pisces rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeLeo · 6th house

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 12th house

The South Node in Aquarius (12th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Sagittarius; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Pisces rising puts Jupiter in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Jupiter · the chart rulerLibra · 7th house

Growth comes through partnership, fairness and beauty, carried by faith in the relationship. The shadow is losing the self in the service of harmony.

Where it drives. Fortune arrives through partnership. Often a significant or fortunate marriage, with the other person genuinely enlarging the self.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger. Planets in the 10th (Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini on the IC, home is where the mind chatters: books, siblings, talk as shelter.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in air and cardinal signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusScorpio · 9th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 10th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundTaurus · 2nd house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to think differently and free the future from stale rules.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your atmosphere first: soft, imaginative, hard to pin down.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is an air, cardinal chart led by Jupiter. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

Missing: Little or no fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

What leads the chart

Jupiter is the loudest force in your chart, which means expansion, faith, and the search for more lead. You are jovial in the old sense, generous and optimistic and forever reaching toward the larger picture.

The spine, your Big Three

Aquarius Sun · Libra Moon · Pisces rising Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of air and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
8%
Earth
10%
Air
67%
Water
15%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Aquariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Aquarius: Mars, Mercury, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Sun gather in Aquarius. A stellium in Aquarius concentrates the chart on difference, community, and the future that does not fit old rules. You innovate and detach at high volume: originality and the collective are where the energy stacks.

gift

Tremendous focus through Aquarius: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Aquarius energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Aquarius stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Aquarius is also a discharge valve.

Stellium in Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Saturn

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Saturn gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

Tremendous focus through Libra: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Libra energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Libra stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Libra is also a discharge valve.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.47°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Jupiter conjunction Saturnorb 0.65°

In you, Jupiter is fused with Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mercury conjunction Marsorb 1.23°

In you, Mercury is fused with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Sun trine Moonorb 1.56°

In you, the Sun flows together with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Mercury sextile Neptuneorb 2.44°

In you, Mercury works easily with Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.5°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Jupiter sextile North Nodeorb 0.5°

An easy, available link: Jupiter and North Node feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Saturn exalted in Libralifted

Saturn is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Saturn sextile North Nodeorb 1.2°

An easy, available link: Saturn and North Node feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun trine Moonorb 1.6°

A natural, flowing ease: Sun and Moon feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mercury sextile Neptuneorb 2.4°

An easy, available link: Mercury and Neptune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
North Node square Part of Fortuneorb 1.5°

A productive friction: the pull between North Node and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun in detriment in Aquariusuphill

Sun runs uphill in Aquarius, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Chiron square North Nodeorb 2.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Chiron and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Black Moon Lilithorb 2.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Black Moon Lilith never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Neptune square Vertexorb 3.3°

A productive friction: the pull between Neptune and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Part of Fortuneorb 3.9°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Alicia Keys
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun5°30' Aquarius12th housedetriment
Moon7°04' Libra7th house·
Mercury21°26' Aquarius12th house·
Venus17°52' Capricorn11th house·
Mars20°12' Aquarius12th house·
Jupiter10°23' Libra7th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Saturn9°44' Libra7th houseretrograde, exaltation
Uranus29°26' Scorpio9th house·
Neptune23°52' Sagittarius10th house·
Pluto24°20' Libra8th house·
Chiron13°24' Taurus2nd house·
North Node10°54' Leo6th house·
South Node10°54' Aquarius12th house·
Black Moon Lilith2°58' Scorpio8th house·
Part of Fortune9°24' Scorpio8th house·
Vertex20°35' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilepluto0.47°applying
jupitersextilenorth-node0.51°separating
jupiterconjunctionsaturn0.65°separating
saturnsextilenorth-node1.16°separating
mercuryconjunctionmars1.23°separating
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune1.49°separating
suntrinemoon1.56°separating
mercurysextileneptune2.44°applying
chironsquarenorth-node2.51°applying
sunsquarelilith2.54°separating
moonconjunctionsaturn2.67°applying
venustrinevertex2.72°applying
mercurytrinepluto2.91°applying
neptunesquarevertex3.28°separating
moonconjunctionjupiter3.32°applying
marssextileneptune3.67°applying
moonsextilenorth-node3.83°applying
sunsquarepart-of-fortune3.89°applying
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune4.00°separating
marstrinepluto4.14°applying
suntrinesaturn4.23°applying
venustrinechiron4.47°separating
suntrinejupiter4.87°applying
sunoppositionnorth-node5.39°applying
sunsquarechiron7.89°applying
sunsesquiquadratevertex0.08°applying
saturnsemisextilepart-of-fortune0.33°applying
moonbiquintilechiron0.34°separating
marsquincunxvertex0.39°applying
neptunesemisquarepart-of-fortune0.53°applying
moonsesquiquadratemercury0.63°separating
mercuryquincunxvertex0.84°separating
jupitersemisextilepart-of-fortune0.98°applying
plutoquintilenorth-node1.44°applying
jupiterquintileneptune1.49°separating
moonsesquiquadratemars1.86°separating