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Billie Holiday.

7 April 1915 · 02:30 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Billie Holiday's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Capricorn, Aquarius rising. Born April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

About this chart

What is Billie Holiday's sun sign?

Billie Holiday's sun is in Aries.

What is Billie Holiday's moon sign?

Billie Holiday's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Billie Holiday's rising sign?

Billie Holiday's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Billie Holiday born?

Billie Holiday was born April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAries · 2nd house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. The self is forged through what you value and what you hold. Self-worth and resources are the school, and the lifelong work is valuing yourself enough to insist on what you genuinely need.

MoonCapricorn · 12th house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. Feeling runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.

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RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Gemini in the 5th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 NodeAquarius · 1st house

The pull is toward Aquarius: contribution to something larger, objectivity, the good of the group. The familiar groove is Leo: needing to be the centre, applause as proof. Growth is worth measured by what you give, not how you are seen.

South NodeLeo · 7th house

The South Node in Leo (7th 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 air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Libra, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Aquarius rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerGemini · 5th house

The work is on the mind, speech and communication: lessons in taking words seriously. The shadow is the difficulty of saying, simply, what is true.

Where it drives. Joy has to be earned. Self-expression is often inhibited early on, and the work is to keep at the craft until it ripens into real creative mastery.

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
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

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 water and mutable signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusAquarius · 1st house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aquarius

Uranus is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneCancer · 6th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Cancer

An era that dreams of universal belonging, a mystical motherhood, the dissolving of family lines.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 5th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundPisces · 2nd house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that knows what your time is worth and has stopped explaining the math. It is the refusal to be treated like a resource. The medicine is slow and bodily: keep what is yours without apology. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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 a water, mutable chart led by Mars. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Mars is the loudest force in your chart, which means drive, desire, and assertion lead. You are martial, defined by energy and the will to pursue, a person of action who moves on want rather than waiting.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Capricorn Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
15%
Earth
15%
Air
23%
Water
46%
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 Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus gather in Pisces. A stellium in Pisces concentrates the chart on feeling, imagination, and the thin wall between selves. You absorb and dream at high volume: compassion, art, and the unseen define more of the story than hard edges do.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Pisces 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 Pisces stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Pisces 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.

Moon sextile Marsorb 0.19°

In you, the Moon works easily with Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun sextile Uranusorb 1.52°

In you, the Sun works easily with Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury conjunction Marsorb 1.81°

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.

Moon sextile Mercuryorb 2.00°

In you, the Moon works easily with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury square Saturnorb 2.45°

In you, Mercury grinds against Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

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
Jupiter rules Piscesat home

Jupiter sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Moon sextile Marsorb 0.2°

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

Saturn sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

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

North Node sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.9°

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

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

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

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

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

Where it works
North Node square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.1°

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

Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

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

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

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

Neptune square Part of Fortuneorb 1.5°

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

Mercury square Saturnorb 2.4°

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

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 3.8°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon 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 Billie Holiday
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°24' Aries2nd houseexaltation
Moon22°22' Capricorn12th housedetriment
Mercury24°22' Pisces2nd housedetriment
Venus6°39' Pisces1st houseexaltation
Mars22°33' Pisces2nd house·
Jupiter14°44' Pisces1st houserulership
Saturn26°49' Gemini5th housechart ruler
Uranus14°53' Aquarius1st house·
Neptune27°39' Cancer6th houseretrograde
Pluto0°14' Cancer5th house·
Chiron20°08' Pisces2nd house·
North Node25°16' Aquarius1st house·
South Node25°16' Leo7th house·
Black Moon Lilith25°23' Taurus4th house·
Part of Fortune26°08' Aries2nd house·
Vertex2°40' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
north-nodesquarelilith0.12°separating
moonsextilemars0.19°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune0.69°separating
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune0.87°applying
mercurysextilelilith1.02°applying
neptunesquarepart-of-fortune1.51°applying
sunsextileuranus1.52°separating
saturntrinenorth-node1.56°separating
mercuryconjunctionmars1.81°separating
moonsextilemercury2.00°applying
moonsextilechiron2.24°separating
neptunesextilelilith2.26°applying
marsconjunctionchiron2.43°separating
plutosextilevertex2.43°applying
mercurysquaresaturn2.45°applying
marssextilelilith2.83°applying
moontrinelilith3.02°applying
mercurytrineneptune3.27°applying
saturnconjunctionpluto3.42°applying
moonsquarepart-of-fortune3.76°applying
venusoppositionvertex3.98°separating
mercuryconjunctionchiron4.24°separating
marssquaresaturn4.26°applying
plutotrinenorth-node4.98°applying
marstrineneptune5.09°applying
moonoppositionneptune5.27°applying
jupiterconjunctionchiron5.40°applying
mercurysquarepluto5.87°applying
sunsquaremoon5.97°separating
jupitersemisextileuranus0.15°applying
uranussesquiquadratepluto0.37°applying
moonsemisquarevenus0.72°separating
lilithsemisextilepart-of-fortune0.74°applying
uranusquintilepart-of-fortune0.75°separating
saturnsemisextileneptune0.82°applying
mercurysemisextilenorth-node0.89°applying
sunsesquiquadratevertex1.27°applying
jupiterquintilelilith1.34°separating
saturnsemisextilelilith1.43°applying
sunsemisextilejupiter1.67°separating
mercurysemisextilepart-of-fortune1.76°applying
neptunequincunxnorth-node2.38°applying