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Nelly Furtado.

2 December 1978 · 08:20 · Victoria, Capital Regional District, Canada

Nelly Furtado's birth chart: Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Capricorn, Sagittarius rising. Born December 2, 1978 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, Canada.

About this chart

What is Nelly Furtado's sun sign?

Nelly Furtado's sun is in Sagittarius.

What is Nelly Furtado's moon sign?

Nelly Furtado's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Nelly Furtado's rising sign?

Nelly Furtado's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Nelly Furtado born?

Nelly Furtado was born December 2, 1978 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, Canada.

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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 Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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.

SunSagittarius · 12th house

The self is built toward meaning and the horizon. Optimistic, philosophical, hungry for what lies beyond the known, the arrow always pointing forward. Lesson: the truth you seek is in the specific life you are running from. 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.

MoonCapricorn · 1st house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. 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
RisingSagittarius · the doorway

You arrive wide. Enthusiasm enters the room ahead of you, the body bigger than the doorway it just passed through. People feel the horizon expand when you show up. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Leo in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Sagittarius 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 · 9th 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 · 3rd house

The South Node in Pisces (3rd 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

Sagittarius 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 rulerLeo · 8th house

Growth comes through creative expression, generosity and visibility, carried by faith in the self. The shadow is grandiosity outrunning the substance.

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
MidheavenLibra · the 10th house

With Libra on the Midheaven, a room senses grace: someone fair, composed, who smooths things and makes them elegant. Planets in the 10th (Venus, Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICAries · the 4th house

With Aries on the IC, home is where initiative lives: private fire, a self that rests by starting again.

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 · 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 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 · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 · 10th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 4th 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 4th house (home, roots, family). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 8th 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 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): 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 seek truth, expand the map, and say the honest thing.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your horizon first: open, frank, pointed past small talk.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Sagittarius Sun · Capricorn Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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
59%
Earth
23%
Air
8%
Water
10%
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: Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Sun 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.

Mercury conjunction Neptuneorb 0.13°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.76°

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.

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 0.89°

In you, Mercury works easily with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Sun trine Jupiterorb 1.15°

In you, the Sun flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Venus square Jupiterorb 1.31°

In you, Venus grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. 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
Uranus sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.3°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.8°

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.

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 0.9°

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

Sun trine Jupiterorb 1.2°

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

Moon trine Saturnorb 1.4°

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

Mars sextile Plutoorb 3.9°

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

Where it works
Chiron square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.2°

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

Pluto square Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

A productive friction: the pull between Pluto and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mars square North Nodeorb 0.9°

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

Venus square Jupiterorb 1.3°

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

Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

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

Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

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

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Chart data for Nelly Furtado
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun10°08' Sagittarius12th house·
Moon12°03' Capricorn1st housedetriment
Mercury17°36' Sagittarius1st houseretrograde, detriment
Venus7°40' Scorpio10th housedetriment
Mars22°26' Sagittarius1st house·
Jupiter8°58' Leo8th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Saturn13°29' Virgo9th house·
Uranus18°08' Scorpio11th house·
Neptune17°44' Sagittarius1st house·
Pluto18°29' Libra10th house·
Chiron5°55' Taurus4th houseretrograde
North Node23°19' Virgo9th houseretrograde
South Node23°19' Pisces3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith5°40' Leo8th house·
Part of Fortune17°48' Capricorn1st house·
Vertex29°41' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryconjunctionneptune0.13°separating
chironsquarelilith0.25°applying
uranussextilepart-of-fortune0.34°separating
plutosquarepart-of-fortune0.69°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.76°applying
marssquarenorth-node0.88°applying
mercurysextilepluto0.89°separating
suntrinejupiter1.15°separating
venussquarejupiter1.31°applying
moontrinesaturn1.42°applying
venusoppositionchiron1.75°separating
venussquarelilith1.99°separating
jupitersquarechiron3.05°separating
jupiterconjunctionlilith3.30°applying
sunsquaresaturn3.35°applying
marssextilepluto3.94°separating
mercurysquaresaturn4.12°applying
saturnsquareneptune4.25°applying
saturntrinepart-of-fortune4.32°applying
moonsextilevenus4.39°separating
suntrinelilith4.46°separating
marsconjunctionneptune4.70°separating
mercuryconjunctionmars4.83°separating
north-nodetrinepart-of-fortune5.52°applying
neptunesquarenorth-node5.58°applying
mercurysquarenorth-node5.71°separating
moonconjunctionpart-of-fortune5.74°applying
lilithconjunctionvertex6.00°separating
moontrinechiron6.14°separating
moonsquarepluto6.43°applying
sunconjunctionmercury7.47°applying
sunconjunctionneptune7.60°applying
neptunesemisextilepart-of-fortune0.06°applying
mercurysemisextilepart-of-fortune0.19°separating
venussemisquaremars0.23°applying
uranussemisextilepluto0.35°applying
uranussemisextileneptune0.40°separating
mercurysemisextileuranus0.53°separating
venussemisquarenorth-node0.65°applying
jupitersemisquarenorth-node0.66°separating
plutoquintilelilith0.82°applying
saturnsemisquarevertex1.20°applying
marsbiquintilevertex1.24°applying
marssesquiquadratechiron1.52°separating
marssesquiquadratejupiter1.54°applying
marssesquiquadratelilith1.76°separating
sunsemisextilemoon1.93°separating