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Patti Smith.

30 December 1946 · 06:01 · Chicago, Illinois

Patti Smith's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Pisces, Sagittarius rising. Born December 30, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois.

About this chart

What is Patti Smith's sun sign?

Patti Smith's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Patti Smith's moon sign?

Patti Smith's moon is in Pisces.

What is Patti Smith's rising sign?

Patti Smith's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Patti Smith born?

Patti Smith was born December 30, 1946 in Chicago, 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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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.

SunCapricorn · 1st house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. 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.

MoonPisces · 3rd 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 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.

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 Scorpio in the 11th 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 NodeGemini · 6th house

The pull is toward Gemini: curiosity, the local and specific, listening, the question rather than the verdict. The familiar groove is Sagittarius: the sweeping answer, the belief already held. Growth is staying genuinely interested in what you do not yet know.

South NodeSagittarius · 12th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (12th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Libra; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

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 rulerScorpio · 11th house

Growth comes through depth, transformation and the willingness to go down, carried by faith in the rebirth. The shadow is the obsession that will not release.

Where it drives. Abundance flows through community. Many friends, strong group affiliations, a wide chosen family and a generous sense of the future.

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.

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 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.

UranusGemini · 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 Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 9th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship 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 woundScorpio · 10th house

The wound is trust and power: betrayal, loss, or a brush with the taboo that left the heart guarded and braced for the worst. Intensity can become armor that keeps real contact out. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 1st house

Lilith is the part of you with a low tolerance for small lives and small ideas about who you are allowed to become. It is the refusal to stay containable. The medicine is the long pilgrimage toward your own larger map. 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 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 build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  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 Capricorn. 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 Capricorn, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Capricorn key.

The spine, your Big Three

Capricorn Sun · Pisces Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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
33%
Earth
26%
Air
8%
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 Mooncommon
an opposition under pressure from Moon (Mercury, Moon, Uranus)

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Uranus 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, Virgo, 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 Virgo, 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.

Moon trine Venusorb 0.47°

In you, the Moon flows together with Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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.

Mars square Neptuneorb 0.84°

In you, Mars grinds against Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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 square Mercuryorb 1.37°

In you, the Moon grinds against Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. 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.

Sun conjunction Marsorb 1.71°

In you, the Sun is fused with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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 2.16°

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.

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
Part of Fortune sextile Vertexorb 0.5°

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

Moon trine Venusorb 0.5°

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

Neptune trine North Nodeorb 0.6°

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

Mars exalted in Capricornlifted

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

Pluto sextile North Nodeorb 1.5°

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

Sun sextile Chironorb 2.1°

An easy, available link: Sun and Chiron 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.

Moon square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Mars square Neptuneorb 0.8°

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

Moon square Mercuryorb 1.4°

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

Saturn square Chironorb 1.4°

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

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 Patti Smith
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun8°12' Capricorn1st house·
Moon25°56' Pisces3rd house·
Mercury24°34' Sagittarius1st housedetriment
Venus25°28' Scorpio11th housedetriment
Mars9°55' Capricorn1st houseexaltation
Jupiter20°05' Scorpio11th housechart ruler
Saturn7°29' Leo8th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus19°00' Gemini6th houseretrograde
Neptune10°45' Libra9th house·
Pluto12°55' Leo8th houseretrograde
Chiron6°04' Scorpio10th house·
North Node11°24' Gemini6th houseretrograde
South Node11°24' Sagittarius12th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith26°30' Sagittarius1st house·
Part of Fortune1°43' Libra9th house·
Vertex2°11' Leo8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
part-of-fortunesextilevertex0.46°separating
moontrinevenus0.47°separating
moonsquarelilith0.57°applying
neptunetrinenorth-node0.64°applying
marssquareneptune0.84°applying
moonsquaremercury1.37°separating
saturnsquarechiron1.41°applying
plutosextilenorth-node1.52°separating
sunconjunctionmars1.71°applying
mercuryconjunctionlilith1.93°applying
sunsextilechiron2.12°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.16°applying
sunsquareneptune2.56°applying
saturnsextileneptune3.27°separating
marssextilechiron3.84°separating
chironsquarevertex3.89°separating
saturnsextilenorth-node3.91°separating
lilithsquarepart-of-fortune5.21°applying
saturnconjunctionvertex5.30°applying
venusconjunctionjupiter5.38°separating
saturnconjunctionpluto5.43°separating
mercuryoppositionuranus5.57°separating
moonoppositionpart-of-fortune5.78°applying
moontrinejupiter5.85°separating
moontrinevertex6.24°applying
sunsquarepart-of-fortune6.48°separating
moonsquareuranus6.93°separating
venussemisquareneptune0.28°applying
lilithbiquintilevertex0.32°separating
venussemisquaremars0.56°applying
chironbiquintilenorth-node0.68°separating
sunquincunxsaturn0.72°separating
mercurysemisextilevenus0.90°applying
venussemisextilelilith1.04°applying
jupiterquincunxuranus1.08°separating
sunbiquintilepluto1.28°separating
plutosesquiquadratelilith1.41°applying
marsquincunxnorth-node1.48°applying
uranussemisquarevertex1.82°applying
moonsesquiquadratepluto1.97°applying
marsquincunxsaturn2.43°separating