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Elton John.

25 March 1947 · 03:15 · Pinner, England

Elton John's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Taurus, Capricorn rising. Born March 25, 1947 in Pinner, England.

About this chart

What is Elton John's sun sign?

Elton John's sun is in Aries.

What is Elton John's moon sign?

Elton John's moon is in Taurus.

What is Elton John's rising sign?

Elton John's Rising (Ascendant) is Capricorn.

When and where was Elton John born?

Elton John was born March 25, 1947 in Pinner, England.

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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 Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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 fire 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.

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.

MoonTaurus · 3rd house

Feeling is steady, sensual and slow. Comfort comes from the body, from familiar textures, from food and routine. Once attached, the attachment is permanent. The shadow is stuckness dressed up as loyalty to the past. Feeling is processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

ASC
RisingCapricorn · the doorway

You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Leo in the 7th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Capricorn 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 · 4th 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 · 10th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (10th 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 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

Capricorn 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 rulerLeo · 7th house

Saturn is in detriment here. The work is on self-expression and authenticity: lessons in earning the visibility. The shadow is suppressing the genuine self.

Where it drives. Saturn is strong here, exalted in Libra. Commitment is the curriculum: partnership is often serious or late, and it matures into real authority.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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 (Jupiter) 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 fixed 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.

UranusGemini · 5th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, 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 · 8th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 · 7th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, 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 woundScorpio · 9th house

The wound is trust and power: betrayal, loss, or a brush with the taboo that left the heart guarded and braced for the worst. Intensity can become armor that keeps real contact out. It plays out most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need steadiness, touch, and proof that comfort is allowed.
  5. People meet your gravity first: serious, capable, already holding the frame.

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, fixed 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 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

Aries Sun · Taurus Moon · Capricorn rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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 fire 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
23%
Earth
31%
Air
10%
Water
36%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Grand Trinecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Saturn, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Saturn, Sun form a grand trine. Yours crosses elements rather than sitting in one climate. The ease is still real, but it asks you to braid different kinds of gift instead of one pure talent.

gift

Profound natural talent and ease in the element of the trine, a self-sustaining flow of ability that protects and stabilizes the person.

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.

Yod · apex Mercuryuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Mercury (Mercury, Neptune, Pluto)

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto form a yod pointing at Mercury in Pisces. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Mercury: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Mercury can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Mercury: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.57°

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 trine Saturnorb 1.61°

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

Mars square Uranusorb 2.02°

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

Moon square Saturnorb 2.43°

In you, the Moon grinds against Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Venus square Jupiterorb 4.21°

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.

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.

Sun sextile North Nodeorb 0.6°

An easy, available link: Sun and North Node 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.

Moon exalted in Tauruslifted

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

Moon trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.4°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.6°

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.

Where it works
Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Jupiter square Vertexorb 0.4°

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

Mars square Part of Fortuneorb 0.6°

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

Uranus opposition Part of Fortuneorb 1.4°

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

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

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Chart data for Elton John
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun3°38' Aries2nd houseexaltation
Moon4°27' Taurus3rd houseexaltation
Mercury9°34' Pisces1st housedetriment
Venus23°10' Aquarius1st house·
Mars16°04' Pisces2nd house·
Jupiter27°23' Scorpio10th houseretrograde
Saturn2°02' Leo7th houseretrograde, detriment, chart ruler
Uranus18°05' Gemini5th house·
Neptune9°36' Libra8th houseretrograde
Pluto11°10' Leo7th houseretrograde
Chiron7°45' Scorpio9th houseretrograde
North Node4°12' Gemini4th houseretrograde
South Node4°12' Sagittarius10th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith5°54' Capricorn12th house·
Part of Fortune16°39' Sagittarius11th house·
Vertex27°49' Leo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersquarevertex0.44°separating
sunsextilenorth-node0.56°applying
marssquarepart-of-fortune0.59°applying
uranusoppositionpart-of-fortune1.43°separating
moontrinelilith1.44°applying
neptunesextilepluto1.57°separating
suntrinesaturn1.61°separating
mercurytrinechiron1.80°separating
chironsextilelilith1.86°applying
marssquareuranus2.02°applying
saturnsextilenorth-node2.17°applying
sunsquarelilith2.26°applying
moonsquaresaturn2.43°separating
moonoppositionchiron3.30°applying
plutosquarechiron3.41°separating
mercurysextilelilith3.67°separating
neptunesquarelilith3.70°applying
venussquarejupiter4.21°applying
jupitertrinesaturn4.65°separating
venusoppositionvertex4.65°applying
venustrineuranus5.08°separating
moonsextilemercury5.10°applying
mercurysquarenorth-node5.37°separating
neptunetrinenorth-node5.40°separating
plutotrinepart-of-fortune5.48°separating
saturnsquarechiron5.73°applying
sunoppositionneptune5.96°applying
suntrinejupiter6.26°separating
moontrinevertex6.64°separating
moonsquarepluto6.71°applying
suntrinepluto7.54°applying
mercuryquincunxneptune0.03°applying
sunbiquintilevertex0.19°applying
moonsemisextilenorth-node0.26°separating
saturnsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.37°applying
moonquintilevenus0.71°applying
plutobiquintilelilith0.73°separating
sunsemisextilemoon0.82°separating
marssesquiquadratesaturn0.96°applying
saturnsemisquareuranus1.06°separating
marsbiquintilepluto1.10°applying
moonsemisquareuranus1.37°separating
venussesquiquadrateneptune1.43°applying
mercuryquincunxpluto1.61°applying
north-nodequincunxlilith1.70°separating
neptunesemisextilechiron1.84°separating