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Duke Ellington.

29 April 1899 · 01:25 · Washington, D.C.

Duke Ellington's birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Sagittarius, Aquarius rising. Born April 29, 1899 in Washington, D.C..

About this chart

What is Duke Ellington's sun sign?

Duke Ellington's sun is in Taurus.

What is Duke Ellington's moon sign?

Duke Ellington's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Duke Ellington's rising sign?

Duke Ellington's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Duke Ellington born?

Duke Ellington was born April 29, 1899 in Washington, D.C..

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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 Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius 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.

SunTaurus · 3rd house

Built from what endures. Steady, sensual, slow to anger and slow to change. The body is the temple, and the temple is not a metaphor. Values are bedrock; stubbornness is the shadow side of staying power. Lesson: holding too tightly is not the same as holding. You come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.

MoonSagittarius · 11th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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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 Sagittarius in the 11th 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 NodeCapricorn · 11th house

The pull is toward Capricorn: maturity, responsibility, building a structure that outlasts the mood of the day. The familiar groove is Cancer: retreating into the familiar, emotional dependence. Growth is stepping into the world as your own authority.

South NodeCancer · 5th house

The South Node in Cancer (5th 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 earth territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

The degree. At 0° of a cardinal sign: a world point. This placement is wired to the wider world; it tends to play out publicly, visibly, on a larger stage than most.

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 rulerSagittarius · 11th house

The work is on belief, philosophy and meaning: lessons in earning your own convictions. The shadow is dogma standing in for inquiry.

Where it drives. Community is built slowly. Often restricted friendships or a thin social life early on, with the work being to build a chosen family and, eventually, to lead one.

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. Planets in the 10th (Uranus) amplify that signal.

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 fire and mutable signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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.

UranusSagittarius · 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 Sagittarius

A generation that upends belief, reinventing meaning, religion and the search for truth.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneGemini · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Gemini

An era that dreams of universal communication, the mystical word, the dissolving of intellectual borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoGemini · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Gemini

An era that remakes mind, communication and information, putting language 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 woundSagittarius · 10th house

The wound is meaning: a crisis of faith from beliefs that were imposed, ridiculed, or simply stopped holding, leaving you lost or purposeless. You may preach what you do not yet live, or wander to outrun the emptiness. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

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 heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  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 build value that lasts in the body and the bank.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  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 fire, fixed chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is fixed-heavy, which makes you a sustainer. You hold, you persist, you see things through, and you are deeply reliable, with real staying power. The work is in flexibility, in not mistaking stubbornness for strength or holding on past the point.

What leads the chart

Your Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Taurus Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius 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
54%
Earth
15%
Air
15%
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 Sagittariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Sagittarius: Moon, Saturn, Uranus

In your chart, Moon, Saturn, Uranus gather in Sagittarius. A stellium in Sagittarius concentrates the chart on truth, travel, and the big map. You seek and preach at high volume: meaning, horizon, and honest belief are where the life packs its fire.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Marscommon
an opposition under pressure from Mars (Jupiter, Mars, Sun)

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

gift

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

difficulty

Mars 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 Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

Grand Trine in Firecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Mars, Uranus, Venus)

In your chart, Mars, Uranus, Venus form a grand trine. Yours runs on fire: a closed circuit of heat, faith, and will. Talent shows as courage and the ability to start without waiting for the room to approve.

gift

Natural fire talent that protects and stabilizes you: ability that has always been easier for you than for most people.

difficulty

Because it is a closed circuit that asks nothing, a grand trine can become complacency, a gift never developed because it never had to be. The ease itself is the trap.

release point

A grand trine wants a square or opposition from outside to activate it, a planet that challenges the closed triangle and forces the talent into use. Without that pressure, the work is self-imposed: deliberately spending the gift rather than coasting on it.

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 conjunction Saturnorb 0.08°

In you, the Moon is fused with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Moon opposition Neptuneorb 0.18°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Saturn opposition Neptuneorb 0.26°

In you, Saturn sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Mars square Jupiterorb 0.86°

In you, Mars grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Mars trine Uranusorb 1.39°

In you, Mars flows together with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

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
Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Uranus trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.3°

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

Jupiter sextile Vertexorb 1.2°

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

Mars trine Uranusorb 1.4°

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

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 1.8°

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

Sun trine Vertexorb 2.6°

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

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

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

Moon opposition Neptuneorb 0.2°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Moon and Neptune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Saturn opposition Neptuneorb 0.3°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Saturn and Neptune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mars square Jupiterorb 0.9°

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

Saturn opposition Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Saturn and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Uranus square Vertexorb 1.0°

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

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Chart data for Duke Ellington
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun8°42' Taurus3rd house·
Moon23°01' Sagittarius11th house·
Mercury16°12' Aries2nd house·
Venus2°42' Aries2nd housedetriment
Mars5°45' Leo6th house·
Jupiter4°53' Scorpio9th houseretrograde
Saturn23°06' Sagittarius11th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Uranus7°08' Sagittarius10th houseretrograde
Neptune22°50' Gemini5th house·
Pluto14°21' Gemini4th house·
Chiron12°01' Sagittarius10th houseretrograde
North Node0°33' Capricorn11th houseretrograde
South Node0°33' Cancer5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith6°47' Leo6th house·
Part of Fortune24°06' Gemini5th house·
Vertex6°06' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonconjunctionsaturn0.08°separating
moonoppositionneptune0.18°separating
saturnoppositionneptune0.26°applying
uranustrinelilith0.35°applying
marssquarejupiter0.86°separating
saturnoppositionpart-of-fortune1.00°separating
uranussquarevertex1.03°applying
marsconjunctionlilith1.04°applying
moonoppositionpart-of-fortune1.08°applying
jupitersextilevertex1.21°separating
neptuneconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.26°applying
marstrineuranus1.39°applying
mercurysextilepluto1.84°separating
jupitersquarelilith1.90°separating
sunsquarelilith1.92°separating
venussquarenorth-node2.15°separating
plutooppositionchiron2.33°separating
suntrinevertex2.60°separating
sunsquaremars2.96°separating
venustrinemars3.04°applying
sunoppositionjupiter3.81°separating
venustrinelilith4.08°applying
mercurytrinechiron4.18°separating
venustrineuranus4.43°applying
uranusconjunctionchiron4.89°applying
chirontrinelilith5.23°applying
north-nodetrinevertex5.55°separating
chironsquarevertex5.92°applying
moontrinemercury6.82°separating
moonconjunctionnorth-node7.54°applying
part-of-fortunequintilevertex0.00°separating
north-nodebiquintilelilith0.23°separating
venusquintilepluto0.35°separating
marssemisextilevertex0.36°applying
sunsemisquarepart-of-fortune0.40°applying
sunsesquiquadratesaturn0.60°separating
sunsesquiquadratemoon0.68°applying
lilithsemisextilevertex0.69°separating
marsbiquintilenorth-node0.81°applying
sunsemisquareneptune0.86°separating
neptunesemisquarelilith1.05°applying
moonsesquiquadratelilith1.23°separating
neptunequintilevertex1.26°applying
saturnsesquiquadratelilith1.32°applying
sunquincunxuranus1.57°separating
venusquincunxjupiter2.18°applying