Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Harry Belafonte.

1 March 1927 · 10:30 · New York, New York

Harry Belafonte's birth chart: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Aquarius, Gemini rising. Born March 1, 1927 in New York, New York.

About this chart

What is Harry Belafonte's sun sign?

Harry Belafonte's sun is in Pisces.

What is Harry Belafonte's moon sign?

Harry Belafonte's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Harry Belafonte's rising sign?

Harry Belafonte's Rising (Ascendant) is Gemini.

When and where was Harry Belafonte born?

Harry Belafonte was born March 1, 1927 in New York, New York.

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Plate inativity of Harry Belafonte1 March 1927 · 10:30
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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 Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Gemini 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 air 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.

SunPisces · 10th house

The self forms and dissolves at once. Permeable, intuitive, often unsure where it ends and the field begins. The artist, the mystic, the empath. Lesson: be permeable on purpose, not by accident. The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonAquarius · 9th house

Feeling is processed at a slight distance. Comfort comes from friendship, from groups, from the chosen family. The sensitivity is real but offered with detachment. The shadow is dodging the personal by way of the universal. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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RisingGemini · the doorway

You arrive already mid-conversation. The eyes find what is interesting before the mouth finds what to say. People feel met at the frequency of the curious question. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Pisces in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Gemini 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 NodeCancer · 2nd house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 8th house

The South Node in Capricorn (8th 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.

Chart Ruler

Gemini rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerPisces · 11th house

Thought is intuitive and associative, sometimes hard to put into words. The mind works in images and feelings, and the speech can turn poetic or vague. The shadow is the difficulty of translating an inner knowing into language.

Where it drives. Thinking is networked. A strategist who works in systems and possibilities, with an intellectually significant circle of friends and a mind set on the future.

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
MidheavenAquarius · the 10th house

With Aquarius on the Midheaven, a room senses independence: someone original, principled, who does not run on the usual rules. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLeo · the 4th house

With Leo on the IC, home is where the heart warms: creative privacy, pride in what you protect.

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.

UranusPisces · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Pisces

A generation that disrupts the spiritual, reinventing mysticism, dissolution and the collective unconscious.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 4th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, 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 · 2nd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 woundAries · 12th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowVirgo · 5th house

Lilith is the part of you that held the whole thing together until competence became a cage. It is the refusal to be needed only for usefulness. The medicine is leaving the dishes and living the actual life. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play): 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 feel the invisible and translate compassion into form.
  4. You need space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your mind first: curious, talkative, light on the feet.

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 air, mutable chart led by Jupiter. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

Missing: Little or no earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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

Jupiter is the loudest force in your chart, which means expansion, faith, and the search for more lead. You are jovial in the old sense, generous and optimistic and forever reaching toward the larger picture.

The spine, your Big Three

Pisces Sun · Aquarius Moon · Gemini rising Your Sun in Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Gemini 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 air 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
18%
Earth
0%
Air
49%
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 Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Jupiter, Mercury, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Sun, Uranus 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.

T-Square · apex Suncommon
an opposition under pressure from Sun (Mars, Saturn, Sun)

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

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Jupitercommon
an opposition under pressure from Jupiter (Jupiter, Mars, Saturn)

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

gift

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

difficulty

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

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 Jupiterorb 0.15°

In you, the Sun is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 sextile Marsorb 0.15°

In you, Venus works easily with Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Mercury conjunction Uranusorb 1.34°

In you, Mercury is fused with Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 sextile Saturnorb 2.36°

In you, the Moon works easily with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Jupiter square Saturnorb 2.47°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

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 sextile Marsorb 0.2°

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

North Node trine Vertexorb 1.2°

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

Jupiter sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.4°

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

Sun sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.6°

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

Moon sextile Saturnorb 2.4°

An easy, available link: Moon and Saturn 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.

T-Squarepattern

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

Venus square North Nodeorb 1.2°

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

Uranus opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.3°

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

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 1.3°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon 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.

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Chart data for Harry Belafonte
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun10°03' Pisces10th house·
Moon9°48' Aquarius9th house·
Mercury26°57' Pisces11th housedetriment, chart ruler
Venus3°49' Aries11th housedetriment
Mars3°58' Gemini12th house·
Jupiter9°54' Pisces10th houserulership
Saturn7°26' Sagittarius6th house·
Uranus28°17' Pisces11th house·
Neptune25°12' Leo4th houseretrograde
Pluto13°55' Cancer2nd houseretrograde
Chiron28°46' Aries12th house·
North Node5°01' Cancer2nd houseretrograde
South Node5°01' Capricorn8th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith29°33' Virgo5th house·
Part of Fortune8°29' Taurus12th house·
Vertex3°51' Scorpio6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunconjunctionjupiter0.15°separating
venussextilemars0.15°applying
north-nodetrinevertex1.17°applying
venussquarenorth-node1.20°applying
uranusoppositionlilith1.27°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune1.30°separating
mercuryconjunctionuranus1.34°applying
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune1.41°separating
sunsextilepart-of-fortune1.56°separating
moonsextilesaturn2.36°separating
jupitersquaresaturn2.47°separating
mercuryoppositionlilith2.61°applying
sunsquaresaturn2.62°separating
marsoppositionsaturn3.46°applying
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune3.47°separating
neptunetrinechiron3.56°separating
venustrinesaturn3.61°applying
suntrinepluto3.86°applying
jupitertrinepluto4.01°applying
venusoppositionlilith4.26°separating
marstrinelilith4.41°separating
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex4.64°separating
jupitertrinenorth-node4.88°separating
suntrinenorth-node5.03°separating
chironoppositionvertex5.08°applying
north-nodesquarelilith5.46°applying
venusconjunctionuranus5.53°separating
moontrinemars5.82°separating
marssquarejupiter5.93°applying
moonsquarevertex5.94°separating
moonsextilevenus5.98°separating
sunsquaremars6.08°separating
suntrinevertex6.20°separating
venusquincunxvertex0.03°separating
moonsemisextilejupiter0.11°separating
marsquincunxvertex0.12°separating
sunsemisextilemoon0.25°separating
uranusbiquintilevertex0.44°separating
uranussemisextilechiron0.48°applying
saturnbiquintilepluto0.48°applying
chironquincunxlilith0.79°separating
mercurybiquintilevertex0.90°applying
marssemisextilenorth-node1.05°applying
saturnquincunxpart-of-fortune1.06°applying
moonbiquintilenorth-node1.23°applying
mercuryquincunxneptune1.74°separating
mercurysemisextilechiron1.82°applying
saturnquincunxnorth-node2.41°separating