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John F. Kennedy.

29 May 1917 · 15:00 · Brookline, Massachusetts

John F. Kennedy's birth chart: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Virgo, Libra rising. Born May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts.

About this chart

What is John F. Kennedy's sun sign?

John F. Kennedy's sun is in Gemini.

What is John F. Kennedy's moon sign?

John F. Kennedy's moon is in Virgo.

What is John F. Kennedy's rising sign?

John F. Kennedy's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was John F. Kennedy born?

John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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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 Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 earth 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.

SunGemini · 8th house

Curiosity is the engine of the self. A quick mind and plural interests, allergic to being pinned to a single version of who you are. The translator, the eternal student, restless because rest feels like dying. Lesson: depth is not the enemy of range. The self is forged in the depths. Encounters with intimacy, power, loss and the hidden remake you, and the descent and return becomes the pattern of a lifetime.

MoonVirgo · 11th house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Gemini in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 NodeCapricorn · 3rd house

The pull is toward Capricorn: maturity, responsibility, building a structure that outlasts the mood of the day. The familiar groove is Cancer: retreating into the familiar, emotional dependence. Growth is stepping into the world as your own authority.

South NodeCancer · 9th house

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

Chart Ruler

Libra rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerGemini · 8th house

Love is curious, conversational and playful. Mental connection is the prerequisite; you need to be talked with. The shadow is multiplying options as a way of never having to choose.

Where it drives. Love runs deep and entangled. Intimacy is intense, resources often merge or are inherited, and the work is keeping love clear of power.

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
MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Saturn, Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 fixed 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.

UranusAquarius · 4th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aquarius

Uranus is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 10th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 woundPisces · 6th 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 6th house (work, health, routine). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 10th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to think out loud and move information where it needs to go.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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, mutable chart led by the Moon. 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.

Missing: Little or no fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

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

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

Gemini Sun · Virgo Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 earth 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
0%
Earth
44%
Air
41%
Water
15%
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 Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Moon square Venusorb 0.46°

In you, the Moon grinds against Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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.

Jupiter square Uranusorb 0.67°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Moon trine Marsorb 1.22°

In you, the Moon flows together with Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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 conjunction Marsorb 2.16°

In you, Mercury is fused with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mercury conjunction Jupiterorb 2.45°

In you, Mercury is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

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
Chiron sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.1°

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

Moon trine Vertexorb 0.8°

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

Moon trine Marsorb 1.2°

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

Saturn trine Chironorb 2.3°

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

Neptune trine Chironorb 3.2°

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.

Moon trine Mercuryorb 3.4°

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

Where it works
Moon square Venusorb 0.5°

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

Jupiter square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.5°

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

Jupiter square Uranusorb 0.7°

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

Uranus opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.2°

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.

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

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

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Chart data for John F. Kennedy
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun7°50' Gemini8th house·
Moon17°12' Virgo11th house·
Mercury20°35' Taurus8th house·
Venus16°44' Gemini8th housechart ruler
Mars18°25' Taurus8th housedetriment
Jupiter23°02' Taurus8th house·
Saturn27°09' Cancer10th housedetriment
Uranus23°43' Aquarius4th houseretrograde
Neptune2°40' Leo10th house·
Pluto3°16' Cancer9th house·
Chiron29°25' Pisces6th house·
North Node11°14' Capricorn3rd houseretrograde
South Node11°14' Cancer9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith22°33' Leo10th house·
Part of Fortune29°21' Capricorn4th house·
Vertex17°58' Taurus8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
chironsextilepart-of-fortune0.07°separating
marsconjunctionvertex0.46°separating
moonsquarevenus0.46°separating
jupitersquarelilith0.48°separating
jupitersquareuranus0.67°applying
moontrinevertex0.76°applying
uranusoppositionlilith1.16°applying
moontrinemars1.22°applying
mercurysquarelilith1.97°separating
mercuryconjunctionmars2.16°applying
saturnoppositionpart-of-fortune2.20°applying
saturntrinechiron2.27°applying
mercuryconjunctionjupiter2.45°separating
mercuryconjunctionvertex2.62°separating
mercurysquareuranus3.13°applying
neptunetrinechiron3.24°applying
neptuneoppositionpart-of-fortune3.31°separating
moontrinemercury3.38°applying
plutosquarechiron3.84°applying
marssquarelilith4.13°applying
lilithsquarevertex4.59°separating
marsconjunctionjupiter4.62°applying
jupiterconjunctionvertex5.08°separating
sunsextileneptune5.17°separating
marssquareuranus5.29°applying
saturnconjunctionneptune5.51°applying
uranussquarevertex5.75°applying
moontrinejupiter5.84°applying
moontrinenorth-node5.96°separating
mercuryquintileneptune0.08°applying
marssemisquarepluto0.16°separating
plutosemisquarevertex0.30°separating
moonsemisquareneptune0.46°separating
neptunesemisextilepluto0.60°applying
chironbiquintilelilith0.86°applying
venussemisquareneptune0.93°applying
venussemisextilevertex1.22°applying
venussemisextilemars1.69°applying