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John Legend.

28 December 1978 · 08:25 · Springfield, Clark County, United States

John Legend's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Sagittarius, Capricorn rising. Born December 28, 1978 in Springfield, Clark County, United States.

About this chart

What is John Legend's sun sign?

John Legend's sun is in Capricorn.

What is John Legend's moon sign?

John Legend's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is John Legend's rising sign?

John Legend's Rising (Ascendant) is Capricorn.

When and where was John Legend born?

John Legend was born December 28, 1978 in Springfield, Clark 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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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 earth and fire 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.

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.

MoonSagittarius · 11th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. 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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RisingCapricorn · the doorway

You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Virgo in the 7th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Capricorn 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 · 8th 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 · 2nd house

The South Node in Pisces (2nd 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 Taurus, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Capricorn 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 rulerVirgo · 7th house

The work is on labour, health and daily practice: lessons in excellence without obsession. The shadow is an inner critic with no mercy.

Where it drives. Saturn is strong here, exalted in Libra. Commitment is the curriculum: partnership is often serious or late, and it matures into real authority.

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
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Venus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

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 mutable 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.

UranusScorpio · 9th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 · 3rd 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 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  5. People meet your gravity first: serious, capable, already holding the frame.

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 Saturn. 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 air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

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 · Sagittarius Moon · Capricorn rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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 earth and fire 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
33%
Earth
49%
Air
0%
Water
18%
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 Sagittariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Sagittarius: Mercury, Moon, Neptune

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Neptune gather in Sagittarius. A stellium in Sagittarius concentrates the chart on truth, travel, and the big map. You seek and preach at high volume: meaning, horizon, and honest belief are where the life packs its fire.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.34°

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.

Moon sextile Plutoorb 0.50°

In you, the Moon works easily with Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Moon conjunction Neptuneorb 0.84°

In you, the Moon is fused with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 square Saturnorb 0.96°

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

Mars trine Saturnorb 1.84°

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

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
Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.3°

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

Moon sextile Plutoorb 0.5°

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

Venus sextile North Nodeorb 0.9°

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

Mars exalted in Capricornlifted

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

Uranus sextile North Nodeorb 1.1°

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

Sun trine Chironorb 1.3°

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

Where it works
Mercury square Saturnorb 1.0°

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

Moon square North Nodeorb 1.1°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon and North Node 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.

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

Neptune square North Nodeorb 1.9°

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

Jupiter square Chironorb 2.2°

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

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Chart data for John Legend
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun6°29' Capricorn12th house·
Moon19°32' Sagittarius11th house·
Mercury14°53' Sagittarius11th housedetriment
Venus21°34' Scorpio10th housedetriment
Mars12°05' Capricorn12th houseexaltation
Jupiter7°20' Leo7th houseretrograde
Saturn13°55' Virgo7th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Uranus19°32' Scorpio9th house·
Neptune18°42' Sagittarius11th house·
Pluto19°02' Libra8th house·
Chiron5°11' Taurus3rd houseretrograde
North Node20°37' Virgo8th houseretrograde
South Node20°37' Pisces2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith8°34' Leo7th house·
Part of Fortune11°56' Capricorn12th house·
Vertex0°46' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marsconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.15°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.34°applying
moonsextilepluto0.50°separating
moonconjunctionneptune0.84°separating
venussextilenorth-node0.94°separating
mercurysquaresaturn0.96°separating
moonsquarenorth-node1.08°applying
uranussextilenorth-node1.09°applying
jupiterconjunctionlilith1.22°separating
suntrinechiron1.30°separating
marstrinesaturn1.84°applying
neptunesquarenorth-node1.92°applying
saturntrinepart-of-fortune1.99°applying
venusconjunctionuranus2.03°separating
jupitersquarechiron2.15°applying
chironsquarelilith3.37°separating
mercuryconjunctionneptune3.82°applying
chirontrinevertex4.42°applying
moonconjunctionmercury4.66°separating
saturnsquareneptune4.78°separating
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune5.44°applying
sunconjunctionmars5.59°applying
moonsquaresaturn5.62°separating
suntrinevertex5.73°separating
mercurysquarenorth-node5.74°applying
suntrinesaturn7.43°applying
moonsemisextileuranus0.00°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.07°applying
jupiterquintilepluto0.30°applying
chironsesquiquadratenorth-node0.43°applying
uranussemisextilepluto0.49°separating
moonsesquiquadratechiron0.65°applying
uranussemisextileneptune0.83°separating
sunquincunxjupiter0.85°applying
neptunesesquiquadratechiron1.49°applying
plutosemisextilenorth-node1.58°applying
jupitersemisquarenorth-node1.72°separating
sunsemisquareuranus1.96°separating
sunquincunxlilith2.07°applying