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Marvin Gaye.

2 April 1939 · 11:58 · Washington, D.C.

Marvin Gaye's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Virgo, Cancer rising. Born April 2, 1939 in Washington, D.C..

About this chart

What is Marvin Gaye's sun sign?

Marvin Gaye's sun is in Aries.

What is Marvin Gaye's moon sign?

Marvin Gaye's moon is in Virgo.

What is Marvin Gaye's rising sign?

Marvin Gaye's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Marvin Gaye born?

Marvin Gaye was born April 2, 1939 in Washington, D.C..

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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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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.

SunAries · 10th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. 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.

MoonVirgo · 3rd 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 processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Virgo in the 3rd house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeScorpio · 4th house

The pull is toward Scorpio: depth, honest intimacy, transformation, the courage to let things end. The familiar groove is Taurus: comfort, possession, staying because it is easy. Growth is trading safety for what is actually alive.

South NodeTaurus · 10th house

The South Node in Taurus (10th 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 water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

The degree. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon 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 Moon · chart rulerVirgo · 3rd house

Feeling is processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

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
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Saturn) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

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.

UranusTaurus · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneVirgo · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 woundCancer · 12th house

The wound is nurture and belonging: a mother-or-family wound that left you feeling unsafe, unheld, without a true home. You may mother everyone else while starving the child inside you. It plays out most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAquarius · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that figured out early the rules were not built for you. It is the odd one who stops fitting on purpose. The medicine is finding the other odd ones and building better rooms. 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 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 act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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 fire, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Aries. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

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

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

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Virgo Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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
41%
Earth
26%
Air
0%
Water
33%
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 Ariescommon
three or more planets clustered in Aries: Mercury, Saturn, Sun

In your chart, Mercury, Saturn, Sun gather in Aries. A stellium in Aries concentrates the chart on starting, fighting for a self, and moving first. You carry a packed charge of will and impatience in the same place: identity is not a theory here, it is action.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Jupiter opposition Neptuneorb 0.13°

In you, Jupiter sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Moon opposition Jupiterorb 0.66°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Jupiter, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Moon conjunction Neptuneorb 0.79°

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.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 1.13°

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

Sun square Marsorb 5.27°

In you, the Sun grinds against Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

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
Jupiter rules Piscesat home

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

Sun sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

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

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

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

Mars exalted in Capricornlifted

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

Venus sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.4°

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

Where it works
Saturn in fall in Ariesstrained

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

Jupiter opposition Neptuneorb 0.1°

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

Chiron opposition Part of Fortuneorb 0.3°

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

Moon opposition Jupiterorb 0.7°

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.

Mars opposition Chironorb 2.3°

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.

North Node square Black Moon Lilithorb 2.9°

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

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Chart data for Marvin Gaye
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun12°03' Aries10th houseexaltation
Moon22°12' Virgo3rd housechart ruler
Mercury13°11' Aries10th houseretrograde
Venus2°46' Pisces8th houseexaltation
Mars6°47' Capricorn6th houseexaltation
Jupiter21°32' Pisces9th houserulership
Saturn19°51' Aries10th housefall
Uranus15°47' Taurus11th house·
Neptune21°24' Virgo3rd houseretrograde
Pluto29°14' Cancer1st houseretrograde
Chiron4°29' Cancer12th house·
North Node8°34' Scorpio4th houseretrograde
South Node8°34' Taurus10th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith11°26' Aquarius7th house·
Part of Fortune4°12' Capricorn6th house·
Vertex9°26' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupiteroppositionneptune0.13°separating
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune0.30°separating
sunsextilelilith0.61°separating
moonoppositionjupiter0.66°separating
moonconjunctionneptune0.79°separating
sunconjunctionmercury1.13°applying
venussextilepart-of-fortune1.43°applying
venustrinechiron1.73°applying
mercurysextilelilith1.74°applying
marssextilenorth-node1.78°applying
lilithsextilevertex2.00°separating
marsoppositionchiron2.30°separating
marsconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.59°separating
suntrinevertex2.61°separating
north-nodesquarelilith2.88°separating
mercurytrinevertex3.74°applying
chirontrinenorth-node4.07°applying
uranussquarelilith4.35°applying
sunsquaremars5.27°separating
uranustrineneptune5.62°applying
venustrinenorth-node5.80°applying
moontrineuranus6.40°separating
sunsquarechiron7.56°separating
sunconjunctionsaturn7.80°applying
sunsquarepart-of-fortune7.86°separating
north-nodesemisextilevertex0.88°separating
chironbiquintilelilith0.95°separating
venusquintileuranus1.03°applying
moonsemisquarenorth-node1.37°applying
uranusquintilepluto1.44°applying
saturnquincunxneptune1.55°applying
jupitersemisextilesaturn1.68°separating
moonquincunxsaturn2.34°separating