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Nina Simone.

21 February 1933 · 06:00 · Tryon, North Carolina

Nina Simone's birth chart: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Capricorn, Aquarius rising. Born February 21, 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina.

About this chart

What is Nina Simone's sun sign?

Nina Simone's sun is in Pisces.

What is Nina Simone's moon sign?

Nina Simone's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Nina Simone's rising sign?

Nina Simone's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Nina Simone born?

Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina.

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

SunPisces · 1st house

The self forms and dissolves at once. Permeable, intuitive, often unsure where it ends and the field begins. The artist, the mystic, the empath. Lesson: be permeable on purpose, not by accident. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonCapricorn · 12th 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 runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.

ASC
RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Aquarius in the 1st house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 NodePisces · 1st house

The pull is toward Pisces: trust, surrender, compassion, a sense of the whole. The familiar groove is Virgo: over-analysis, perfectionism, anxious fixing. Growth is loosening the grip and letting life be imperfect and held.

South NodeVirgo · 7th house

The South Node in Virgo (7th 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.

Chart Ruler

Aquarius 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 rulerAquarius · 1st house

Saturn is the traditional ruler here. The work is on community, vision and the future: lessons in responsible innovation. The shadow is rigidity in the name of revolution.

Where it drives. Weight is carried in the self. Often a serious or grave presence, an early life that asked a great deal, and a slow but deep maturing into eventual 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.

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 earth and mutable 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.

UranusAries · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aries

A generation that rebels in the first person, rewriting what selfhood means.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneVirgo · 7th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, 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 · 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 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 · 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 shadowGemini · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that keeps the receipts: what was said, who said it, what it actually meant. It is the refusal to translate yourself into a version other people prefer. Your voice was never the problem. 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 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to feel the invisible and translate compassion into form.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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, mutable 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 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 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

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

Pisces Sun · Capricorn Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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
0%
Earth
33%
Air
33%
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 Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Jupiter, Mars, Neptune

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, Neptune gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Virgo 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 Virgo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Virgo is also a discharge valve.

T-Square · apex Uranuscommon
an opposition under pressure from Uranus (Moon, Pluto, Uranus)

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

gift

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

difficulty

Uranus 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 Libra, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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 opposition Marsorb 0.66°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Uranus square Plutoorb 0.91°

In you, Uranus grinds against Pluto, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Jupiter sextile Plutoorb 1.23°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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 opposition Plutoorb 1.73°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your relationship to power and deep change. 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 square Uranusorb 2.64°

In you, the Moon grinds against Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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
Saturn rules Aquariusat home

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

Moon trine Chironorb 0.5°

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

Jupiter sextile Plutoorb 1.2°

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

Pluto sextile Chironorb 2.2°

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

Moon trine Jupiterorb 3.0°

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

Venus sextile Uranusorb 3.2°

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

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

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

Sun square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.5°

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

Mercury opposition Marsorb 0.7°

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

Uranus square Plutoorb 0.9°

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

Neptune opposition North Nodeorb 1.2°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Neptune and North Node 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.

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Chart data for Nina Simone
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun2°22' Pisces1st house·
Moon23°18' Capricorn12th housedetriment
Mercury13°24' Pisces1st housedetriment
Venus17°30' Aquarius1st house·
Mars14°03' Virgo7th houseretrograde
Jupiter20°20' Virgo7th houseretrograde, detriment
Saturn10°04' Aquarius1st houserulership, chart ruler
Uranus20°40' Aries2nd house·
Neptune8°59' Virgo7th houseretrograde
Pluto21°34' Cancer6th houseretrograde
Chiron23°47' Taurus3rd house·
North Node7°46' Pisces1st houseretrograde
South Node7°46' Virgo7th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith2°51' Gemini4th house·
Part of Fortune16°48' Pisces1st house·
Vertex5°33' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsquarelilith0.47°applying
moontrinechiron0.49°separating
mercuryoppositionmars0.66°applying
uranussquarepluto0.91°applying
neptuneoppositionnorth-node1.23°applying
jupitersextilepluto1.23°separating
moonoppositionpluto1.73°separating
north-nodeoppositionvertex2.21°applying
plutosextilechiron2.22°separating
moonsquareuranus2.64°separating
lilithsquarevertex2.70°applying
marsoppositionpart-of-fortune2.74°separating
moontrinejupiter2.96°separating
venussextileuranus3.17°applying
sunoppositionvertex3.17°applying
mercuryconjunctionpart-of-fortune3.40°applying
neptuneconjunctionvertex3.44°applying
jupitertrinechiron3.45°separating
jupiteroppositionpart-of-fortune3.55°applying
mercuryoppositionneptune4.41°separating
plutotrinepart-of-fortune4.78°applying
north-nodesquarelilith4.92°applying
marsconjunctionneptune5.07°applying
sunconjunctionnorth-node5.39°applying
mercuryconjunctionnorth-node5.63°separating
sunoppositionneptune6.61°applying
uranussesquiquadratevertex0.12°separating
jupiterquincunxuranus0.32°separating
moonsemisquarenorth-node0.54°separating
marsbiquintileuranus0.61°separating
moonsesquiquadrateneptune0.68°applying
venussemisextilepart-of-fortune0.70°separating
plutosemisquarevertex1.03°applying
saturnquincunxneptune1.08°separating
plutosesquiquadratenorth-node1.19°separating
saturnquintileuranus1.41°separating