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Jacques Brel.

8 April 1929 · 03:00 · Ixelles - Elsene, Brussels-Capital, Belgium

Jacques Brel's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Pisces, Aquarius rising. Born April 8, 1929 in Ixelles - Elsene, Brussels-Capital, Belgium.

About this chart

What is Jacques Brel's sun sign?

Jacques Brel's sun is in Aries.

What is Jacques Brel's moon sign?

Jacques Brel's moon is in Pisces.

What is Jacques Brel's rising sign?

Jacques Brel's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Jacques Brel born?

Jacques Brel was born April 8, 1929 in Ixelles - Elsene, Brussels-Capital, Belgium.

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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 Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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.

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.

MoonPisces · 1st 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. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

ASC
RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Capricorn in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 NodeTaurus · 3rd house

The pull is toward Taurus: steadiness, your own resources, the plain things that sustain you, the body's simple yes. The familiar groove is Scorpio: intensity, entanglement, living on other people's crises. Growth is a calm that needs no storm to feel real.

South NodeScorpio · 9th house

The South Node in Scorpio (9th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Capricorn, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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

Aquarius 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 rulerCapricorn · 11th house

Saturn is at home here. The work is on ambition, mastery and legacy: lessons in the long game. The shadow is work as identity, at the cost of a life.

Where it drives. Community is built slowly. Often restricted friendships or a thin social life early on, with the work being to build a chosen family and, eventually, to lead one.

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
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini on the IC, home is where the mind chatters: books, siblings, talk as shelter.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusAries · 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 Aries

A generation that rebels in the first person, rewriting what selfhood means.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 7th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, 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 · 6th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, 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 woundTaurus · 2nd 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 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you with a low tolerance for small lives and small ideas about who you are allowed to become. It is the refusal to stay containable. The medicine is the long pilgrimage toward your own larger map. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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 fire, cardinal chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

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 · Pisces Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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
33%
Earth
26%
Air
15%
Water
26%
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 Ariescommon
three or more planets clustered in Aries: Mercury, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Uranus gather in Aries. A stellium in Aries concentrates the chart on starting, fighting for a self, and moving first. You carry a packed charge of will and impatience in the same place: identity is not a theory here, it is action.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Mercury conjunction Uranusorb 0.07°

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.

Jupiter sextile Plutoorb 1.48°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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 square Plutoorb 1.58°

In you, the Sun grinds against Pluto, bringing together your core identity and will and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.66°

In you, Saturn flows together with Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 sextile Jupiterorb 2.69°

In you, Mars works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. 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
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.

Saturn rules Capricornat home

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

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

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

Saturn sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.3°

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

Jupiter sextile Plutoorb 1.5°

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

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.7°

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

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.

Moon square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.4°

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

Sun square Plutoorb 1.6°

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

Neptune opposition Part of Fortuneorb 2.9°

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

Mars square Uranusorb 4.1°

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

Mercury square Marsorb 4.2°

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

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Chart data for Jacques Brel
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun17°47' Aries2nd houseexaltation
Moon25°28' Pisces1st house·
Mercury7°53' Aries1st house·
Venus6°23' Taurus2nd houseretrograde, rulership
Mars12°02' Cancer5th housefall
Jupiter14°44' Taurus3rd house·
Saturn0°31' Capricorn11th houserulership, chart ruler
Uranus7°56' Aries1st house·
Neptune28°51' Leo7th houseretrograde
Pluto16°13' Cancer6th house·
Chiron8°23' Taurus2nd house·
North Node21°39' Taurus3rd houseretrograde
South Node21°39' Scorpio9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith25°05' Sagittarius11th house·
Part of Fortune1°47' Pisces1st house·
Vertex10°06' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryconjunctionuranus0.07°separating
moonsquarelilith0.38°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune1.27°applying
jupitersextilepluto1.48°applying
sunsquarepluto1.58°separating
saturntrineneptune1.66°separating
chirontrinevertex1.73°applying
marssextilevertex1.93°separating
venusconjunctionchiron1.99°separating
marssextilejupiter2.69°applying
neptuneoppositionpart-of-fortune2.93°separating
marssextilechiron3.66°separating
venustrinevertex3.72°separating
neptunetrinelilith3.77°applying
moonsextilenorth-node3.82°separating
marssquareuranus4.10°separating
mercurysquaremars4.16°applying
marsconjunctionpluto4.17°applying
jupitertrinevertex4.62°separating
moonsquaresaturn5.05°applying
saturnconjunctionlilith5.43°applying
sunsquaremars5.75°separating
venustrinesaturn5.88°applying
suntrinelilith7.30°applying
uranussemisextilechiron0.44°separating
mercurysemisextilechiron0.50°applying
plutosesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.57°applying
jupitersesquiquadratesaturn0.78°applying
jupiterquintilepart-of-fortune0.95°separating
sunsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.00°separating
mercurysemisquarenorth-node1.23°separating
uranussemisquarenorth-node1.30°separating
mercurysemisextilevenus1.49°separating
venussemisextileuranus1.55°separating
chironsesquiquadratelilith1.70°separating
marssemisquareneptune1.81°applying
uranusquincunxvertex2.17°applying
mercuryquincunxvertex2.23°applying