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Dolly Parton.

19 January 1946 · 20:25 · Sevierville, Tennessee

Dolly Parton's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Virgo, Virgo rising. Born January 19, 1946 in Sevierville, Tennessee.

About this chart

What is Dolly Parton's sun sign?

Dolly Parton's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Dolly Parton's moon sign?

Dolly Parton's moon is in Virgo.

What is Dolly Parton's rising sign?

Dolly Parton's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Dolly Parton born?

Dolly Parton was born January 19, 1946 in Sevierville, Tennessee.

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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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share earth as their element, which gives you a single, unified nature rather than competing currents. The same fuel runs through all three pillars, intensified. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunCapricorn · 5th house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. You come alive in what you make. Creativity, play, romance and children are where the self is authored. The house of joy is, for you, the house of identity.

MoonVirgo · 12th house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Feeling runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.

ASC
RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Capricorn in the 5th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 NodeGemini · 10th house

The pull is toward Gemini: curiosity, the local and specific, listening, the question rather than the verdict. The familiar groove is Sagittarius: the sweeping answer, the belief already held. Growth is staying genuinely interested in what you do not yet know.

South NodeSagittarius · 4th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (4th 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 Aquarius, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

The degree. At 29°: the anaretic degree. A placement here carries urgency and mastery at once: an old lesson coming to a head, asking to be completed.

Chart Ruler

Virgo rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerCapricorn · 5th house

Thought is structured and methodical, aimed at useful conclusions. The mind works in long arcs and consequences, the speech is measured, and the gift is planning. The shadow is dismissing whatever does not look practical.

Where it drives. The mind is the playground. Thought runs to what you might make, wit shows up in romance, and these people often write or teach about creativity and children.

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
MidheavenTaurus · the 10th house

With Taurus on the Midheaven, a room senses steadiness: someone solid, unhurried, trustworthy with what matters. Planets in the 10th (Uranus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICScorpio · the 4th house

With Scorpio on the IC, home is where depth is allowed: loyalty, secrets, and roots that remake themselves.

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 earth and cardinal signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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.

UranusGemini · 10th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship 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 woundLibra · 2nd house

The wound is relationship: heartbreak, codependency, or losing yourself in others, underpinned by a sense that you are only lovable when you please. Harmony can become a cage you decorate. It plays out most loudly in the 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 3rd 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 3rd house (mind, words, siblings): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

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 earth, cardinal chart led by Mercury. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an earth-dominant chart, which means you run on the tangible, the practical, and the real. You build steadily, you trust what you can touch, and you ground the people around you, though you can resist change and get stuck in the material.

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

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Capricorn Sun · Virgo Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share earth as their element, which gives you a single, unified nature rather than competing currents. The same fuel runs through all three pillars, intensified. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
0%
Earth
74%
Air
8%
Water
18%
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 Capricorncommon
three or more planets clustered in Capricorn: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Capricorn. A stellium in Capricorn concentrates the chart on ambition, structure, and long-game authority. You build and carry responsibility at high volume: reputation, work, and the climb are not side plots, they are the spine.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Jupitercommon
an opposition under pressure from Jupiter (Jupiter, Mars, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, Venus form a T-square with Jupiter at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aries, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Jupiter: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Jupiter can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aries, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Jupitercommon
an opposition under pressure from Jupiter (Jupiter, Saturn, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus form a T-square with Jupiter at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aries, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Jupiter: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Jupiter can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aries, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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.

Mars conjunction Saturnorb 0.11°

In you, Mars is fused with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Venus square Jupiterorb 0.21°

In you, Venus grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.30°

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.

Sun square Jupiterorb 2.80°

In you, the Sun grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Uranus sextile Plutoorb 2.94°

In you, Uranus works easily with Pluto, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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.

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
Moon sextile North Nodeorb 0.7°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.3°

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.

Saturn trine Black Moon Lilithorb 2.5°

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

Mars trine Black Moon Lilithorb 2.6°

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

Mercury sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 2.9°

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

Uranus sextile Plutoorb 2.9°

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

Where it works
Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

Mars works against the grain in Cancer. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Chiron square Vertexorb 0.2°

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

Mars square Chironorb 0.2°

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

Venus square Jupiterorb 0.2°

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

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Chart data for Dolly Parton
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun29°23' Capricorn5th house·
Moon0°24' Virgo12th house·
Mercury15°26' Capricorn5th housechart ruler
Venus26°23' Capricorn5th house·
Mars20°54' Cancer11th houseretrograde, fall
Jupiter26°35' Libra3rd house·
Saturn20°47' Cancer11th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus13°49' Gemini10th houseretrograde
Neptune8°35' Libra2nd houseretrograde
Pluto10°53' Leo12th houseretrograde
Chiron21°05' Libra2nd house·
North Node29°39' Gemini10th houseretrograde
South Node29°39' Sagittarius4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith18°18' Scorpio3rd house·
Part of Fortune1°19' Aquarius5th house·
Vertex21°16' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marsconjunctionsaturn0.11°applying
chironsquarevertex0.18°applying
marssquarechiron0.19°separating
venussquarejupiter0.21°applying
saturnsquarechiron0.30°separating
marsoppositionvertex0.37°separating
saturnoppositionvertex0.48°separating
moonsextilenorth-node0.75°separating
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.93°applying
neptunesextilepluto2.30°applying
saturntrinelilith2.48°applying
marstrinelilith2.59°applying
sunsquarejupiter2.80°separating
mercurysextilelilith2.88°applying
uranussextilepluto2.94°applying
lilithsextilevertex2.96°applying
sunconjunctionvenus3.01°applying
jupitertrinenorth-node3.07°applying
moonsextilejupiter3.82°separating
jupitersquarepart-of-fortune4.73°applying
venusconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.94°applying
venusconjunctionvertex5.11°separating
uranustrineneptune5.24°applying
venussquarechiron5.29°separating
jupitersquarevertex5.32°separating
mercuryoppositionsaturn5.36°applying
mercuryoppositionmars5.46°applying
venusoppositionmars5.48°separating
jupiterconjunctionchiron5.50°separating
venusoppositionsaturn5.59°separating
mercurysquarechiron5.66°applying
marssquarejupiter5.69°separating
jupitersquaresaturn5.80°separating
mercuryconjunctionvertex5.84°applying
moonsesquiquadratemercury0.02°separating
sunquincunxnorth-node0.27°applying
sunsesquiquadrateuranus0.56°separating
moonquincunxpart-of-fortune0.91°applying
sunquintilelilith0.92°applying
lilithquintilepart-of-fortune1.01°applying
sunquincunxmoon1.02°separating
uranusbiquintilevertex1.44°separating
mercuryquincunxuranus1.60°separating
north-nodequincunxpart-of-fortune1.66°separating