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Jean-Michel Basquiat.

22 December 1960 · 11:45 · Brooklyn, New York

Jean-Michel Basquiat's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Aquarius, Pisces rising. Born December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York.

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What is Jean-Michel Basquiat's sun sign?

Jean-Michel Basquiat's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Jean-Michel Basquiat's moon sign?

Jean-Michel Basquiat's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Jean-Michel Basquiat's rising sign?

Jean-Michel Basquiat's Rising (Ascendant) is Pisces.

When and where was Jean-Michel Basquiat born?

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York.

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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 Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces 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 · 10th 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. 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 · 12th 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 runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.

ASC
RisingPisces · the doorway

You arrive and adjust to the room. The body responds to whatever atmosphere it finds, taking on the quality of the container. People feel a quiet attunement they cannot name. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Capricorn in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Pisces 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 NodeVirgo · 6th house

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 12th house

The South Node in Pisces (12th 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 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Pisces rising puts Jupiter 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.

Jupiter · the chart rulerCapricorn · 10th house

Growth comes through mastery, structure and legitimate authority, carried by faith in the long climb. The shadow is mistaking status for growth.

Where it drives. Growth is in public life. Fortunate in the public sphere and often a leader, with a reputation that widens over time. The summit tends to be reached.

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 (Sun, Jupiter, Saturn) 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 earth and cardinal 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.

UranusLeo · 6th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 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 Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 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 Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundAquarius · 12th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen). 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 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 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 space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your atmosphere first: soft, imaginative, hard to pin down.

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, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Capricorn. 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.

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 Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Capricorn, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Capricorn key.

The spine, your Big Three

Capricorn Sun · Aquarius Moon · Pisces rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces 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
31%
Air
26%
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 Capricorncommon
three or more planets clustered in Capricorn: Jupiter, Saturn, Sun

In your chart, Jupiter, Saturn, Sun gather in Capricorn. A stellium in Capricorn concentrates the chart on ambition, structure, and long-game authority. You build and carry responsibility at high volume: reputation, work, and the climb are not side plots, they are the spine.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Mars opposition Jupiterorb 0.14°

In you, Mars sits opposite Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 sextile Moonorb 0.88°

In you, the Sun works easily with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mars trine Neptuneorb 1.18°

In you, Mars flows together with Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 1.33°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.52°

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.

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
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 sextile Moonorb 0.9°

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

Black Moon Lilith sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

An easy, available link: Black Moon Lilith 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 Neptuneorb 1.2°

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

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 1.3°

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

Neptune sextile North Nodeorb 1.9°

An easy, available link: Neptune and North Node 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.

Jupiter in fall in Capricornstrained

Jupiter works against the grain in Capricorn. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Mars opposition Jupiterorb 0.1°

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

Uranus square Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

A productive friction: 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 Sagittariusuphill

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

Chiron square Part of Fortuneorb 1.9°

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

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Chart data for Jean-Michel Basquiat
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun0°51' Capricorn10th house·
Moon29°58' Aquarius12th house·
Mercury22°48' Sagittarius9th housedetriment
Venus14°32' Aquarius11th house·
Mars11°47' Cancer4th houseretrograde, fall
Jupiter11°56' Capricorn10th housefall, chart ruler
Saturn18°30' Capricorn10th houserulership
Uranus25°35' Leo6th houseretrograde
Neptune10°36' Scorpio8th house·
Pluto8°05' Virgo6th houseretrograde
Chiron28°26' Aquarius12th house·
North Node8°42' Virgo6th houseretrograde
South Node8°42' Pisces12th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith25°32' Cancer5th house·
Part of Fortune26°35' Taurus2nd house·
Vertex28°56' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marsoppositionjupiter0.14°separating
plutoconjunctionnorth-node0.61°applying
sunsextilemoon0.88°applying
uranussquarepart-of-fortune0.99°separating
lilithsextilepart-of-fortune1.04°applying
marstrineneptune1.18°applying
jupitersextileneptune1.33°separating
moonconjunctionchiron1.54°separating
chironsquarepart-of-fortune1.86°separating
neptunesextilenorth-node1.91°separating
sunsquarevertex1.92°separating
part-of-fortunetrinevertex2.36°separating
sunsextilechiron2.42°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.52°separating
mercurytrineuranus2.79°applying
uranusoppositionchiron2.85°separating
marssextilenorth-node3.09°applying
jupitertrinenorth-node3.24°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune3.39°separating
lilithsextilevertex3.40°applying
marssextilepluto3.70°applying
jupitertrinepluto3.84°separating
venussquareneptune3.92°separating
moonoppositionuranus4.38°separating
suntrineuranus5.27°separating
suntrinepluto7.23°applying
suntrinenorth-node7.84°applying
uranussemisextilelilith0.05°applying
marssemisquarepart-of-fortune0.21°applying
jupitersesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.35°separating
chironquincunxvertex0.50°applying
venussesquiquadratevertex0.59°separating
moonquincunxvertex1.03°separating
saturnbiquintileuranus1.09°applying
marssemisquareuranus1.20°applying
sunsemisquarevenus1.33°applying
jupitersesquiquadrateuranus1.34°separating
jupitersemisquarechiron1.50°applying
marssesquiquadratechiron1.65°separating
north-nodesemisquarelilith1.84°separating