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Jeff Buckley.

17 November 1966 · 22:49 · Anaheim, Orange County, United States

Jeff Buckley's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Aquarius, Leo rising. Born November 17, 1966 in Anaheim, Orange County, United States.

About this chart

What is Jeff Buckley's sun sign?

Jeff Buckley's sun is in Scorpio.

What is Jeff Buckley's moon sign?

Jeff Buckley's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Jeff Buckley's rising sign?

Jeff Buckley's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Jeff Buckley born?

Jeff Buckley was born November 17, 1966 in Anaheim, Orange 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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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.

SunScorpio · 4th house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

MoonAquarius · 6th 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 lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Scorpio in the 4th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo 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 · 10th 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 · 4th house

The South Node in Scorpio (4th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Virgo; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Leo rising puts the Sun in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Sun · chart rulerScorpio · 4th house

The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

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
MidheavenTaurus · the 10th house

With Taurus on the Midheaven, a room senses steadiness: someone solid, unhurried, trustworthy with what matters.

IC
ICScorpio · the 4th house

With Scorpio on the IC, home is where depth is allowed: loyalty, secrets, and roots that remake themselves.

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 fixed 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.

UranusVirgo · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 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 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 · 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 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 woundPisces · 8th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowPisces · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that picks up what everyone is carrying, including what they hide. It is sensitivity that was called too much. The medicine is reclaiming that perception as authority, not apology. 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 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to go deep, strip the false layer, and keep what is real.
  4. You need space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

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 water, fixed chart led by the Sun in Scorpio. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

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

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 Scorpio, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Scorpio key.

The spine, your Big Three

Scorpio Sun · Aquarius Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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
23%
Earth
18%
Air
15%
Water
44%
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 Scorpiocommon
three or more planets clustered in Scorpio: Mercury, Neptune, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Sun, Venus gather in Scorpio. A stellium in Scorpio concentrates the chart on depth, power, and what will not stay surface. You transform at high volume: intimacy, secrets, and regeneration define the plot whether you invite them or not.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Scorpio 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 Scorpio stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Scorpio is also a discharge valve.

Stellium in Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Mars, Pluto, Uranus

In your chart, Mars, Pluto, Uranus 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.

Mercury sextile Uranusorb 0.08°

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.

Mercury trine Saturnorb 0.56°

In you, Mercury flows together with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Saturn opposition Uranusorb 0.64°

In you, Saturn sits opposite Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 0.70°

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

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 0.94°

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.

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 sextile Uranusorb 0.1°

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

Neptune trine Chironorb 0.3°

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

Sun trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.3°

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

Mercury trine Saturnorb 0.6°

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

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 0.7°

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

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 0.9°

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 opposition Chironorb 0.4°

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

Saturn opposition Uranusorb 0.6°

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

Pluto opposition Chironorb 1.5°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

Mars opposition Saturnorb 1.6°

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

Moon opposition Jupiterorb 1.7°

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

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Chart data for Jeff Buckley
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun25°28' Scorpio4th housechart ruler
Moon6°07' Aquarius6th house·
Mercury23°32' Scorpio4th houseretrograde
Venus27°47' Scorpio4th housedetriment
Mars21°20' Virgo2nd house·
Jupiter4°27' Leo12th house·
Saturn22°58' Pisces8th houseretrograde
Uranus23°36' Virgo2nd house·
Neptune22°02' Scorpio4th house·
Pluto20°18' Virgo2nd house·
Chiron21°46' Pisces8th houseretrograde
North Node16°07' Taurus10th houseretrograde
South Node16°07' Scorpio4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith25°47' Pisces8th house·
Part of Fortune8°32' Gemini10th house·
Vertex0°49' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysextileuranus0.08°separating
neptunetrinechiron0.26°separating
suntrinelilith0.31°applying
marsoppositionchiron0.43°applying
mercurytrinesaturn0.56°applying
saturnoppositionuranus0.64°separating
marssextileneptune0.70°applying
saturntrineneptune0.94°applying
marsconjunctionpluto1.03°separating
saturnconjunctionchiron1.20°applying
plutooppositionchiron1.47°applying
mercuryconjunctionneptune1.50°applying
uranussextileneptune1.57°applying
marsoppositionsaturn1.64°applying
moonoppositionjupiter1.66°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.73°separating
mercurytrinechiron1.76°applying
uranusoppositionchiron1.84°separating
sunsextileuranus1.87°separating
sunconjunctionmercury1.95°separating
venustrinelilith2.00°separating
uranusoppositionlilith2.18°separating
mercurysextilemars2.20°applying
mercurytrinelilith2.25°separating
marsconjunctionuranus2.27°applying
sunconjunctionvenus2.31°separating
moontrinepart-of-fortune2.41°applying
suntrinesaturn2.51°separating
saturnoppositionpluto2.67°applying
saturnconjunctionlilith2.81°separating
mercurysextilepluto3.23°applying
uranusconjunctionpluto3.31°separating
sunconjunctionneptune3.44°separating
suntrinechiron3.71°separating
neptunetrinelilith3.75°separating
chironconjunctionlilith4.01°separating
sunsextilemars4.14°separating
plutotrinenorth-node4.18°separating
mercuryconjunctionvenus4.25°separating
marsoppositionlilith4.45°applying
venustrinesaturn4.81°separating
lilithsquarevertex5.03°applying
sunsextilepluto5.18°separating
marstrinenorth-node5.21°separating
plutooppositionlilith5.48°separating
venusconjunctionneptune5.75°separating
neptuneoppositionnorth-node5.91°separating
moonsesquiquadratemars0.21°separating
north-nodesesquiquadratevertex0.30°applying
moonquintilemercury0.59°separating
moonsemisquarechiron0.65°applying
lilithquintilepart-of-fortune0.75°applying
moonsesquiquadratepluto0.82°separating
jupitersemisquarepluto0.84°separating
sunquintilemoon1.36°applying
moonsemisquaresaturn1.85°applying
marssemisquarejupiter1.87°separating