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Janis Joplin.

19 January 1943 · 09:30 · Port Arthur, Texas

Janis Joplin's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Cancer, Aquarius rising. Born January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas.

About this chart

What is Janis Joplin's sun sign?

Janis Joplin's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Janis Joplin's moon sign?

Janis Joplin's moon is in Cancer.

What is Janis Joplin's rising sign?

Janis Joplin's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Janis Joplin born?

Janis Joplin was born January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas.

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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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Cancer 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.

SunCapricorn · 12th house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonCancer · 5th house

The Moon is at home here. Deep emotional attunement, a long memory, a profound need for sanctuary. The interior is vast and the shell is real. Soothing requires safety, history and the felt sense of being held. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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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 Gemini in the 4th 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 NodeLeo · 7th house

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 1st house

The South Node in Aquarius (1st 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 fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Aries, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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 rulerGemini · 4th house

The work is on the mind, speech and communication: lessons in taking words seriously. The shadow is the difficulty of saying, simply, what is true.

Where it drives. The foundation must be earned. Often difficult origins, with the lifelong task of building a home and an inner base that genuinely holds.

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
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger. Planets in the 10th (Mars) amplify that signal.

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 air and cardinal signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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 · 3rd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, 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 · 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 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 · 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 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 woundLeo · 7th house

The wound is being seen: a fear that the real you is not special enough to love, so you dim your light or chase validation that never quite lands. Applause can feel like oxygen and still leave you hollow. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 5th house

Lilith is the part of you that learned to be the family's weather system before you had a name for it. It is the one who absorbs what was never yours to carry, and is still learning to put it down. Medicine starts with mothering yourself first. 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 air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  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 an air, cardinal chart led by Saturn. 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.

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

Saturn is the loudest force in your chart, which means structure, discipline, and the serious build lead. You are saturnine, defined by responsibility and the long climb, mature beyond your years and built for what lasts.

The spine, your Big Three

Capricorn Sun · Cancer Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Cancer 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
18%
Earth
15%
Air
44%
Water
23%
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 (Neptune, Saturn, Sun)

In your chart, Neptune, 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.

Grand Trinecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Neptune, Sun, Uranus)

In your chart, Neptune, Sun, Uranus 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.

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.

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 0.39°

In you, Saturn works easily with Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 1.25°

In you, Uranus flows together with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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.

Sun trine Uranusorb 2.09°

In you, the Sun flows together with Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will 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 opposition Plutoorb 3.21°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Sun trine Neptuneorb 3.34°

In you, the Sun flows together with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

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
Moon rules Cancerat home

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

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Uranus sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.0°

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

Mars trine North Nodeorb 0.3°

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

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 0.4°

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

Where it works
Sun opposition Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

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

Uranus square Chironorb 2.6°

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

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 3.2°

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

Uranus square North Nodeorb 5.6°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 6.7°

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

Sun opposition Plutoorb 7.6°

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

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Chart data for Janis Joplin
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°39' Capricorn12th house·
Moon8°41' Cancer5th houserulership
Mercury9°29' Aquarius12th houseretrograde
Venus14°01' Aquarius12th house·
Mars24°47' Sagittarius10th house·
Jupiter19°05' Cancer5th houseretrograde, exaltation
Saturn5°52' Gemini4th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Uranus0°44' Gemini3rd houseretrograde
Neptune1°59' Libra7th houseretrograde
Pluto6°16' Leo6th houseretrograde
Chiron28°10' Leo7th houseretrograde
North Node25°07' Leo7th houseretrograde
South Node25°07' Aquarius1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith16°10' Cancer5th house·
Part of Fortune0°41' Leo6th house·
Vertex12°26' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
uranussextilepart-of-fortune0.04°applying
marstrinenorth-node0.34°applying
saturnsextilepluto0.39°separating
uranustrineneptune1.25°separating
neptunesextilepart-of-fortune1.30°applying
sunoppositionpart-of-fortune2.04°applying
suntrineuranus2.09°applying
uranussquarechiron2.56°separating
jupiterconjunctionlilith2.92°applying
chironconjunctionnorth-node3.05°separating
mercuryoppositionpluto3.21°applying
suntrineneptune3.34°applying
marstrinechiron3.39°applying
mercurytrinesaturn3.61°applying
lilithsextilevertex3.73°separating
moonsextilevertex3.76°applying
saturntrineneptune3.89°applying
mercuryconjunctionvenus4.54°separating
saturnconjunctionuranus5.14°applying
plutoconjunctionpart-of-fortune5.58°applying
uranussquarenorth-node5.61°separating
moonsquareneptune6.70°separating
suntrinesaturn7.23°applying
moonconjunctionlilith7.48°applying
sunoppositionpluto7.62°applying
marsbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.10°separating
mercurysemisquaremars0.31°separating
uranussemisquarelilith0.43°separating
sunquincunxchiron0.47°separating
moonbiquintilevenus0.66°separating
moonquincunxmercury0.80°applying
jupiterquintileneptune0.91°separating
sunsesquiquadratevertex1.21°separating
moonsemisquarenorth-node1.44°applying
venusquincunxvertex1.58°separating
jupitersemisquaresaturn1.80°separating
venusquincunxlilith2.14°applying