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Ella Fitzgerald.

25 April 1917 · 12:30 · Newport News, Virginia

Ella Fitzgerald's birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Gemini, Leo rising. Born April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia.

About this chart

What is Ella Fitzgerald's sun sign?

Ella Fitzgerald's sun is in Taurus.

What is Ella Fitzgerald's moon sign?

Ella Fitzgerald's moon is in Gemini.

What is Ella Fitzgerald's rising sign?

Ella Fitzgerald's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Ella Fitzgerald born?

Ella Fitzgerald was born April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia.

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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 Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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 · 9th 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 alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonGemini · 11th house

Feeling is processed through language. Comfort comes from talking it out, from reading and conversation. You often need to express an emotion before you know what it is. The shadow is staying in the head to dodge the feeling. 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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RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Taurus in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo 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 · 5th 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 · 11th house

The South Node in Cancer (11th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Taurus; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

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

Leo rising puts the Sun in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Sun · chart rulerTaurus · 9th house

You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

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.

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MidheavenTaurus · the 10th house

With Taurus on the Midheaven, a room senses steadiness: someone solid, unhurried, trustworthy with what matters. Planets in the 10th (Mercury, Jupiter) 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 fixed 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.

UranusAquarius · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, 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 →

NeptuneLeo · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Leo

An era that dreams of universal creativity, the spiritualising of celebrity and self-expression.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 11th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 8th 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 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 1st 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 1st house (self, body, first impression): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to build value that lasts in the body and the bank.
  4. You need conversation, variety, and a mind that is not caged.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

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, fixed chart led by Venus. 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 water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

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

Venus is the loudest force in your chart, which means love, beauty, and harmony lead. You are Venusian, drawn to connection, pleasure, and the aesthetic, relating and attracting as your primary mode of moving through the world.

The spine, your Big Three

Taurus Sun · Gemini Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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
26%
Earth
51%
Air
15%
Water
8%
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 Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Jupiter, Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Taurus 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 Taurus stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Taurus 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 Venusorb 0.17°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Mars sextile Uranusorb 0.20°

In you, Mars works easily with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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 sextile Saturnorb 0.58°

In you, Mercury works easily with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Mars square Saturnorb 1.44°

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

Mercury square Uranusorb 1.81°

In you, Mercury grinds against Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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
Venus rules Taurusat home

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

Mars rules Ariesat home

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

Mars sextile Uranusorb 0.2°

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

Mercury sextile Saturnorb 0.6°

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

Venus trine Vertexorb 0.9°

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

Sun trine Vertexorb 1.1°

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
Pluto opposition Vertexorb 1.2°

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

Mars square Saturnorb 1.4°

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

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

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

Mercury square Uranusorb 1.8°

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

Moon square Chironorb 2.0°

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

Venus square Neptuneorb 2.6°

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

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Chart data for Ella Fitzgerald
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun4°55' Taurus9th housechart ruler
Moon26°02' Gemini11th house·
Mercury25°04' Taurus10th house·
Venus4°44' Taurus9th houserulership
Mars23°03' Aries9th houserulership
Jupiter14°59' Taurus10th house·
Saturn24°29' Cancer12th housedetriment
Uranus23°15' Aquarius7th house·
Neptune2°07' Leo12th house·
Pluto2°37' Cancer11th house·
Chiron28°02' Pisces8th house·
North Node13°02' Capricorn5th houseretrograde
South Node13°02' Cancer11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith18°46' Leo1st house·
Part of Fortune9°45' Libra3rd house·
Vertex3°48' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunconjunctionvenus0.17°applying
marssextileuranus0.20°applying
mercurysextilesaturn0.58°separating
venustrinevertex0.93°separating
suntrinevertex1.11°separating
plutooppositionvertex1.19°applying
marssquaresaturn1.44°applying
mercurysquareuranus1.81°separating
jupitertrinenorth-node1.95°separating
moonsquarechiron2.01°applying
venussextilepluto2.12°separating
sunsextilepluto2.30°separating
venussquareneptune2.62°separating
moontrineuranus2.77°separating
sunsquareneptune2.79°separating
mercurysextilechiron2.97°applying
moonsextilemars2.98°separating
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune3.28°applying
saturntrinechiron3.55°applying
jupitersquarelilith3.78°applying
neptunetrinechiron4.08°applying
marstrinelilith4.29°separating
uranusoppositionlilith4.50°applying
plutosquarechiron4.58°applying
chironsquarevertex5.76°applying
part-of-fortunesquarevertex5.94°separating
moonconjunctionpluto6.59°applying
moonoppositionvertex7.78°applying
lilithsesquiquadratevertex0.04°applying
north-nodebiquintilelilith0.26°applying
mercurysesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.33°separating
sunquintileuranus0.34°applying
neptunesemisextilepluto0.49°separating
venusquintileuranus0.52°applying
jupiterbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.76°applying
moonsemisextilemercury0.96°separating
plutosemisquarelilith1.14°separating
saturnquincunxuranus1.23°separating
uranussesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.48°applying
moonsemisextilesaturn1.54°separating
neptunequincunxvertex1.68°applying
jupitersemisquarechiron1.94°separating