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Edgar Allan Poe.

19 January 1809 · 01:30 · Boston, Massachusetts

Edgar Allan Poe's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Pisces, Scorpio rising. Born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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What is Edgar Allan Poe's sun sign?

Edgar Allan Poe's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Edgar Allan Poe's moon sign?

Edgar Allan Poe's moon is in Pisces.

What is Edgar Allan Poe's rising sign?

Edgar Allan Poe's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Edgar Allan Poe born?

Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Plate inativity of Edgar Allan Poe19 January 1809 · 01:30
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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 Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 earth 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.

SunCapricorn · 3rd 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 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.

MoonPisces · 4th house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

ASC
RisingScorpio · the doorway

You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Libra in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio 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 NodeScorpio · 12th house

The pull is toward Scorpio: depth, honest intimacy, transformation, the courage to let things end. The familiar groove is Taurus: comfort, possession, staying because it is easy. Growth is trading safety for what is actually alive.

South NodeTaurus · 6th house

The South Node in Taurus (6th 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 water 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. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

Chart Ruler

Scorpio rising puts Mars 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.

Mars · the chart rulerLibra · 12th house

The drive is considered and diplomatic, expressed through negotiation, uneasy with overt aggression. The shadow is suppressing anger in the name of harmony.

Where it drives. Anger goes hidden. The fight happens invisibly, sometimes turned against the self without notice, and the work suits hospitals, prisons and behind-the-scenes roles.

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
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, home is slightly off-grid: chosen family, ideas as hearth, independence indoors.

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.

UranusScorpio · 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 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 · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 →

PlutoPisces · 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 Pisces

An era that remakes the spiritual and the dissolved, putting the source itself 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 woundAquarius · 3rd house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other): 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 build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your intensity first: still waters, sharp perception, nothing shallow.

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 the Moon. 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.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

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

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

Capricorn Sun · Pisces Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 earth 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
15%
Earth
26%
Air
10%
Water
49%
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, Moon, Pluto, Venus

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, 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.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 0.20°

In you, the Sun is fused with Mercury, bringing together your core identity and will and your mind and how you communicate. 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 trine Uranusorb 0.27°

In you, Venus flows together with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Moon trine Uranusorb 0.43°

In you, the Moon flows together with Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Moon conjunction Venusorb 0.70°

In you, the Moon is fused with Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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 sextile Saturnorb 2.71°

In you, the Sun works easily with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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
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.

Venus trine Uranusorb 0.3°

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

Mercury trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.3°

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

Moon trine Uranusorb 0.4°

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

Sun trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.5°

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

Venus trine North Nodeorb 0.6°

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

Where it works
Uranus square Chironorb 0.4°

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

Chiron square North Nodeorb 1.4°

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

Mars in detriment in Librauphill

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

Jupiter square Vertexorb 2.5°

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

Venus square Neptuneorb 2.9°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 3.6°

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

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Chart data for Edgar Allan Poe
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°50' Capricorn3rd house·
Moon9°49' Pisces4th house·
Mercury28°38' Capricorn3rd house·
Venus9°07' Pisces4th houseexaltation
Mars18°36' Libra12th housedetriment, chart ruler
Jupiter16°51' Pisces4th houserulership
Saturn1°33' Sagittarius1st house·
Uranus9°23' Scorpio1st house·
Neptune6°12' Sagittarius1st house·
Pluto13°03' Pisces4th house·
Chiron9°50' Aquarius3rd house·
North Node8°28' Scorpio12th houseretrograde
South Node8°28' Taurus6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith23°37' Taurus7th house·
Part of Fortune28°20' Virgo11th house·
Vertex19°23' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunconjunctionmercury0.20°applying
venustrineuranus0.27°applying
mercurytrinepart-of-fortune0.31°separating
moontrineuranus0.43°separating
uranussquarechiron0.44°separating
suntrinepart-of-fortune0.51°separating
venustrinenorth-node0.64°separating
moonconjunctionvenus0.70°separating
marstrinevertex0.78°applying
uranusconjunctionnorth-node0.91°separating
moontrinenorth-node1.34°separating
chironsquarenorth-node1.36°separating
jupitersquarevertex2.52°applying
sunsextilesaturn2.71°applying
mercurysextilesaturn2.91°applying
venussquareneptune2.92°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune3.22°separating
moonconjunctionpluto3.24°applying
moonsquareneptune3.61°separating
neptunesextilechiron3.63°separating
uranustrinepluto3.67°applying
jupiterconjunctionpluto3.80°separating
venusconjunctionpluto3.94°applying
plutotrinenorth-node4.58°separating
saturnconjunctionneptune4.65°applying
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune4.72°applying
mercurytrinelilith5.03°separating
suntrinelilith5.23°separating
moonconjunctionjupiter7.04°applying
moonsemisextilechiron0.02°separating
marsbiquintilepluto0.45°applying
mercurysemisquarepluto0.58°separating
venussemisextilechiron0.72°applying
sunsemisquarepluto0.78°separating
marsbiquintilelilith0.99°separating
plutoquintilelilith1.44°applying
marsquincunxjupiter1.75°separating