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Michael Jackson.

29 August 1958 · 19:33 · Gary, Indiana

Michael Jackson's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Pisces, Pisces rising. Born August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana.

About this chart

What is Michael Jackson's sun sign?

Michael Jackson's sun is in Virgo.

What is Michael Jackson's moon sign?

Michael Jackson's moon is in Pisces.

What is Michael Jackson's rising sign?

Michael Jackson's Rising (Ascendant) is Pisces.

When and where was Michael Jackson born?

Michael Jackson was born August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana.

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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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces 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 water 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.

SunVirgo · 6th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. The self is forged in the practical labour of ordinary days. Work, health, routine and craft are the curriculum, and you know who you are by what you do, and do well.

MoonPisces · 1st house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

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 Libra in the 8th 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 NodeLibra · 7th house

The pull is toward Libra: partnership, balance, genuinely taking the other person into account. The familiar groove is Aries: self-interest first, the solo charge. Growth is discovering you become more, not less, in real relationship.

South NodeAries · 1st house

The South Node in Aries (1st 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 air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Gemini, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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 rulerLibra · 8th house

Growth comes through partnership, fairness and beauty, carried by faith in the relationship. The shadow is losing the self in the service of harmony.

Where it drives. Increase comes through what is shared. Often money received through others, profound transformations, and strong intuition. The underworld is a teacher here.

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.

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 fire and fixed 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.

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 shadowAries · 1st house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  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 a fire, mutable chart led by the Moon. 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 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

Virgo Sun · Pisces Moon · Pisces rising Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces 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 water 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
36%
Earth
26%
Air
8%
Water
31%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Mercury, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Uranus, Venus gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Leo 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 Leo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Leo 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 0.41°

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.

Venus trine Saturnorb 2.05°

In you, Venus flows together with Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Mercury sextile Jupiterorb 3.12°

In you, Mercury works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury square Marsorb 3.38°

In you, Mercury grinds against Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Venus conjunction Uranusorb 3.57°

In you, Venus is fused with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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
Saturn sextile Chironorb 0.2°

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

Mars trine Vertexorb 0.4°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.4°

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.

Neptune sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.2°

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

Chiron sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 1.9°

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

Venus trine Saturnorb 2.1°

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

Where it works
Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

North Node opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.9°

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

Venus opposition Chironorb 2.2°

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

Saturn square Vertexorb 2.5°

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

Mars square Chironorb 2.7°

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

Mercury square Marsorb 3.4°

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

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Chart data for Michael Jackson
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun6°08' Virgo6th house·
Moon14°54' Pisces1st house·
Mercury25°24' Leo6th houseretrograde
Venus17°04' Leo6th house·
Mars22°02' Taurus2nd housedetriment
Jupiter28°32' Libra8th housechart ruler
Saturn19°07' Sagittarius9th house·
Uranus13°30' Leo6th house·
Neptune2°34' Scorpio8th house·
Pluto2°10' Virgo6th house·
Chiron19°18' Aquarius12th houseretrograde
North Node23°05' Libra7th houseretrograde
South Node23°05' Aries1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith21°13' Aries1st house·
Part of Fortune1°21' Virgo6th house·
Vertex21°39' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnsextilechiron0.18°applying
marstrinevertex0.38°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.41°applying
plutoconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.81°separating
neptunesextilepart-of-fortune1.22°separating
north-nodeoppositionlilith1.85°applying
chironsextilelilith1.93°separating
venustrinesaturn2.05°applying
saturntrinelilith2.11°separating
venusoppositionchiron2.23°applying
mercurysextilenorth-node2.33°applying
saturnsquarevertex2.54°applying
marssquarechiron2.73°separating
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune2.82°applying
mercurysextilejupiter3.12°separating
mercurysquaremars3.38°applying
venusconjunctionuranus3.57°separating
sunsextileneptune3.57°separating
jupitersextilepluto3.63°applying
chirontrinenorth-node3.78°applying
saturnsextilenorth-node3.96°applying
sunconjunctionpluto3.98°separating
jupiterconjunctionneptune4.04°applying
venustrinelilith4.16°applying
mercurytrinelilith4.18°applying
moonsquaresaturn4.22°applying
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.79°separating
venussquaremars4.97°applying
jupiterconjunctionnorth-node5.45°separating
saturntrineuranus5.62°applying
uranusoppositionchiron5.80°applying
mercuryconjunctionpart-of-fortune5.94°separating
moonoppositionvertex6.75°applying
sunsesquiquadratelilith0.09°applying
lilithquincunxvertex0.43°applying
venusquintilejupiter0.53°separating
marssemisextilelilith0.80°separating
marsquincunxnorth-node1.05°applying
moonsesquiquadratejupiter1.37°separating
moonquincunxuranus1.40°separating
north-nodesemisextilevertex1.42°applying
saturnsemisquareneptune1.55°applying
sunsemisquarenorth-node1.94°applying
moonquincunxvenus2.16°applying
chironquincunxvertex2.36°separating