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Fiona Apple.

13 September 1977 · 09:59 · Manhattan, New York County, United States

Fiona Apple's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Virgo, Scorpio rising. Born September 13, 1977 in Manhattan, New York County, United States.

About this chart

What is Fiona Apple's sun sign?

Fiona Apple's sun is in Virgo.

What is Fiona Apple's moon sign?

Fiona Apple's moon is in Virgo.

What is Fiona Apple's rising sign?

Fiona Apple's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Fiona Apple born?

Fiona Apple was born September 13, 1977 in Manhattan, New York County, United States.

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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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Virgo 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.

SunVirgo · 11th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonVirgo · 11th 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 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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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 Cancer in the 9th 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 NodeLibra · 12th house

The pull is toward Libra: partnership, balance, genuinely taking the other person into account. The familiar groove is Aries: self-interest first, the solo charge. Growth is discovering you become more, not less, in real relationship.

South NodeAries · 6th house

The South Node in Aries (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 air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Aquarius; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

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 rulerCancer · 9th house

The drive is indirect, defensive and protective, and anger surfaces as withdrawal or moodiness. You fight for family and for feeling. The shadow is passive aggression.

Where it drives. The drive is for the wider world. An active traveller with strong convictions, often a teacher with fire, and the occasional clash with foreign cultures or in-laws.

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. Planets in the 10th (Mercury, Venus, Saturn) amplify that signal.

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 earth and mutable 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.

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 · 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 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 →

PlutoLibra · 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 Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundTaurus · 7th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowGemini · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that keeps the receipts: what was said, who said it, what it actually meant. It is the refusal to translate yourself into a version other people prefer. Your voice was never the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  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 an earth, fixed 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 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

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

Virgo Sun · Virgo Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Virgo 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
26%
Earth
41%
Air
0%
Water
33%
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 Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Mercury, Moon, Sun

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Sun gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.30°

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.

Mercury sextile Marsorb 0.57°

In you, Mercury works easily with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mars trine Uranusorb 1.54°

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.

Mercury sextile Uranusorb 2.11°

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

Sun conjunction Moonorb 2.42°

In you, the Sun is fused with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

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
Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.3°

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.

North Node trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

A natural, flowing ease: North Node 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 Marsorb 0.6°

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

Jupiter trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.9°

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

Jupiter exalted in Cancerlifted

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

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.

Mercury square Vertexorb 0.2°

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

Neptune opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 2.4°

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

Chiron opposition Part of Fortuneorb 2.6°

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

Uranus opposition Chironorb 3.9°

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

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Chart data for Fiona Apple
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun20°39' Virgo11th house·
Moon23°04' Virgo11th house·
Mercury7°02' Virgo10th houseretrograde, rulership
Venus19°03' Leo10th house·
Mars7°36' Cancer9th housefall, chart ruler
Jupiter3°32' Cancer9th houseexaltation
Saturn24°18' Leo10th housedetriment
Uranus9°08' Scorpio1st house·
Neptune13°28' Sagittarius2nd house·
Pluto13°09' Libra12th house·
Chiron5°13' Taurus7th houseretrograde
North Node15°19' Libra12th houseretrograde
South Node15°19' Aries6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith15°52' Gemini8th house·
Part of Fortune2°35' Scorpio1st house·
Vertex7°14' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysquarevertex0.22°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.30°applying
north-nodetrinelilith0.56°separating
mercurysextilemars0.57°separating
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune0.94°separating
marstrineuranus1.54°applying
jupitersextilechiron1.69°applying
mercurytrinechiron1.81°applying
neptunesextilenorth-node1.85°applying
mercurysextileuranus2.11°separating
plutoconjunctionnorth-node2.16°applying
marssextilechiron2.38°separating
neptuneoppositionlilith2.41°separating
sunconjunctionmoon2.42°separating
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune2.63°applying
plutotrinelilith2.72°separating
venussextilelilith3.17°separating
mercurysextilejupiter3.50°applying
venussextilenorth-node3.73°separating
uranusoppositionchiron3.92°separating
marsconjunctionjupiter4.07°separating
sunsquarelilith4.78°separating
marstrinepart-of-fortune5.00°separating
venusconjunctionsaturn5.26°applying
marssquarepluto5.56°applying
venustrineneptune5.58°separating
jupitertrineuranus5.61°applying
plutotrinevertex5.91°separating
sunsquareneptune7.19°separating
moonsquarelilith7.20°separating
venusquintilevertex0.20°applying
marssemisextilevertex0.35°separating
sunsesquiquadratechiron0.44°separating
venussemisquarejupiter0.52°separating
uranusbiquintilelilith0.74°separating
moonsemisquareuranus1.06°applying
sunquintilemars1.06°separating
moonsemisextilesaturn1.23°applying
part-of-fortunebiquintilevertex1.35°separating
sunsemisextilevenus1.61°applying
marssemisquaresaturn1.71°applying
lilithsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.72°applying
uranusquincunxvertex1.89°separating