Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Miles Davis.

26 May 1926 · 05:00 · Alton, Illinois

Miles Davis's birth chart: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Scorpio, Gemini rising. Born May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois.

About this chart

What is Miles Davis's sun sign?

Miles Davis's sun is in Gemini.

What is Miles Davis's moon sign?

Miles Davis's moon is in Scorpio.

What is Miles Davis's rising sign?

Miles Davis's Rising (Ascendant) is Gemini.

When and where was Miles Davis born?

Miles Davis was born May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois.

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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 Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Gemini 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 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.

SunGemini · 12th 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. 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.

MoonScorpio · 6th house

Feeling runs intense, private and all the way down. Strong instincts, fierce loyalty, slow to trust. The shadow is the iron grip on what cannot be controlled. Soothing needs absolute privacy and the right person. 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.

ASC
RisingGemini · the doorway

You arrive already mid-conversation. The eyes find what is interesting before the mouth finds what to say. People feel met at the frequency of the curious question. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Taurus in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Gemini 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 NodeCancer · 2nd house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 8th house

The South Node in Capricorn (8th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Scorpio; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Gemini rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerTaurus · 12th house

Thought is slow, steady and retentive. Once an idea is taken in, it stays. The mind works in tactile, sensory terms and the speech is deliberate. That slow processing is depth, not deficiency.

Where it drives. The mind works behind the scenes. Quiet, dreamy and intuitive, the intellect operates out of sight, and can become a fine instrument for writing the interior life.

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
MidheavenAquarius · the 10th house

With Aquarius on the Midheaven, a room senses independence: someone original, principled, who does not run on the usual rules. Planets in the 10th (Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLeo · the 4th house

With Leo on the IC, home is where the heart warms: creative privacy, pride in what you protect.

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.

UranusPisces · 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 Pisces

A generation that disrupts the spiritual, reinventing mysticism, dissolution and the collective unconscious.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 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 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 · 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 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 woundTaurus · 12th 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 12th house (rest, release, the unseen). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 4th 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 4th house (home, roots, family): 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 think out loud and move information where it needs to go.
  4. You need depth, loyalty, and emotional truth without theater.
  5. People meet your mind first: curious, talkative, light on the feet.

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

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Gemini Sun · Scorpio Moon · Gemini rising Your Sun in Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Gemini 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 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
10%
Earth
10%
Air
46%
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.

T-Square · apex Jupitercommon
an opposition under pressure from Jupiter (Jupiter, Mercury, Moon)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Moon form a T-square with Jupiter at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Leo, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Jupiter: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Jupiter can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Leo, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Mercury, Moon, Neptune)

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Neptune form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aquarius, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Jupitercommon
an opposition under pressure from Jupiter (Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn form a T-square with Jupiter at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Leo, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Jupiter: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Jupiter can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Leo, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Mercury, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aquarius, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Mooncommon
an opposition under pressure from Moon (Jupiter, Moon, Neptune)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Neptune form a T-square with Moon at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Taurus, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Moon: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Moon can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Taurus, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Mercurycommon
an opposition under pressure from Mercury (Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune form a T-square with Mercury at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Scorpio, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Mercury: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Mercury can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Scorpio, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn form a T-square with Saturn at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Taurus, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Saturn: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Saturn can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Taurus, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

Grand Cross · fixeduncommon
four planets in two oppositions, all squared (Jupiter, Mercury, Moon, Neptune)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Moon, Neptune lock into a grand cross. Yours is a fixed cross: pressure that wants endurance. The four corners test what you will hold, what you will release, and whether pride can become stamina.

gift

Extraordinary resilience and self-sufficiency. A grand cross can hold enormous weight without collapsing, and the four points give a wholeness, a complete circuit of energy.

difficulty

The pressure comes from all four directions at once and has nowhere obvious to discharge, so it can feel like being pulled apart, perpetually busy and rarely at peace.

release point

A grand cross has no empty leg, so the release is internal: it comes from consciously balancing all four points rather than letting one dominate, and from the modality the cross sits in, cardinal crosses release through action, fixed through endurance and letting go, mutable through adaptability.

Grand Cross · fixeduncommon
four planets in two oppositions, all squared (Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn lock into a grand cross. Yours is a fixed cross: pressure that wants endurance. The four corners test what you will hold, what you will release, and whether pride can become stamina.

gift

Extraordinary resilience and self-sufficiency. A grand cross can hold enormous weight without collapsing, and the four points give a wholeness, a complete circuit of energy.

difficulty

The pressure comes from all four directions at once and has nowhere obvious to discharge, so it can feel like being pulled apart, perpetually busy and rarely at peace.

release point

A grand cross has no empty leg, so the release is internal: it comes from consciously balancing all four points rather than letting one dominate, and from the modality the cross sits in, cardinal crosses release through action, fixed through endurance and letting go, mutable through adaptability.

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.

Saturn square Neptuneorb 0.25°

In you, Saturn grinds against Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 conjunction Saturnorb 0.42°

In you, the Moon is fused with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus trine Neptuneorb 0.44°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 0.67°

In you, the Moon grinds against Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Mercury square Neptuneorb 1.39°

In you, Mercury grinds against Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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
Venus trine Neptuneorb 0.4°

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

Mars trine North Nodeorb 0.8°

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

Chiron trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.7°

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

Mars trine Plutoorb 3.0°

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

Uranus trine Part of Fortuneorb 3.2°

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

Jupiter sextile Chironorb 3.6°

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

Where it works
Moon in fall in Scorpiostrained

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

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

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Chart data for Miles Davis
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun4°25' Gemini12th house·
Moon21°27' Scorpio6th housefall
Mercury23°31' Taurus12th housechart ruler
Venus21°41' Aries11th housedetriment
Mars16°17' Pisces11th house·
Jupiter26°28' Aquarius10th house·
Saturn21°53' Scorpio6th houseretrograde
Uranus28°48' Pisces11th house·
Neptune22°08' Leo4th house·
Pluto13°15' Cancer2nd house·
Chiron0°04' Taurus12th house·
North Node17°05' Cancer2nd houseretrograde
South Node17°05' Capricorn8th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith28°21' Leo4th house·
Part of Fortune25°36' Scorpio6th house·
Vertex3°55' Scorpio6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnsquareneptune0.25°separating
moonconjunctionsaturn0.42°separating
venustrineneptune0.44°applying
moonsquareneptune0.67°applying
marstrinenorth-node0.79°applying
jupitersquarepart-of-fortune0.88°separating
mercurysquareneptune1.39°separating
mercuryoppositionsaturn1.65°separating
chirontrinelilith1.71°applying
jupiteroppositionlilith1.89°separating
moonoppositionmercury2.07°applying
mercuryoppositionpart-of-fortune2.07°applying
lilithsquarepart-of-fortune2.76°separating
mercurysquarejupiter2.95°applying
marstrinepluto3.04°separating
uranustrinepart-of-fortune3.22°separating
neptunesquarepart-of-fortune3.47°applying
jupitersextilechiron3.60°applying
saturnconjunctionpart-of-fortune3.72°separating
plutoconjunctionnorth-node3.83°applying
chironoppositionvertex3.85°applying
moonconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.14°applying
jupiteroppositionneptune4.34°separating
moontrinenorth-node4.37°separating
jupitersquaresaturn4.59°separating
venussquarenorth-node4.60°separating
saturntrinenorth-node4.79°separating
mercurysquarelilith4.83°applying
moonsquarejupiter5.01°applying
moontrinemars5.17°separating
marstrinesaturn5.59°applying
sunsextileuranus5.62°separating
sunsquarelilith6.07°separating
moonsquarelilith6.90°applying
moontrineuranus7.35°applying
sunsquarejupiter7.96°separating
plutosemisquarelilith0.11°separating
venusquincunxsaturn0.19°applying
neptunequintilevertex0.21°separating
moonquincunxvenus0.23°separating
uranusquincunxlilith0.45°applying
sunquincunxvertex0.51°separating
uranusbiquintileneptune0.68°separating
uranusbiquintilevertex0.90°separating
plutoquintilechiron1.18°applying
marssemisquarechiron1.22°separating
uranussemisextilechiron1.26°separating
jupitersesquiquadratepluto1.78°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus1.83°separating