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Sidney Poitier.

20 February 1927 · 21:00 · Miami, Florida

Sidney Poitier's birth chart: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Libra, Libra rising. Born February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida.

About this chart

What is Sidney Poitier's sun sign?

Sidney Poitier's sun is in Pisces.

What is Sidney Poitier's moon sign?

Sidney Poitier's moon is in Libra.

What is Sidney Poitier's rising sign?

Sidney Poitier's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Sidney Poitier born?

Sidney Poitier was born February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida.

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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 Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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.

SunPisces · 5th 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 come alive in what you make. Creativity, play, romance and children are where the self is authored. The house of joy is, for you, the house of identity.

MoonLibra · 1st house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. 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.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Pisces in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 · 9th 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 · 3rd house

The South Node in Capricorn (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 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

Libra rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerPisces · 6th house

Venus is exalted here. Love is unconditional, romantic and transcendent, with an enormous capacity for compassion. The shadow is losing the self in the merger.

Where it drives. Affection runs through the everyday. The working environment tends to be pleasant, the body is well-tended, and love can arrive through the workplace.

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
MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 mutable 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 · 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 Pisces

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 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 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 woundAries · 7th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowVirgo · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that held the whole thing together until competence became a cage. It is the refusal to be needed only for usefulness. The medicine is leaving the dishes and living the actual life. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): 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 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 harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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 water, mutable chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

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

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

Pisces Sun · Libra Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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
8%
Earth
10%
Air
31%
Water
51%
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 Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Jupiter, Mercury, Sun, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Sun, Uranus, Venus gather in Pisces. A stellium in Pisces concentrates the chart on feeling, imagination, and the thin wall between selves. You absorb and dream at high volume: compassion, art, and the unseen define more of the story than hard edges do.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Marscommon
an opposition under pressure from Mars (Mars, Neptune, Sun)

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Sun form a T-square with Mars 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 Mars: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Mars 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.

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.

Jupiter square Saturnorb 0.70°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Mars sextile Uranusorb 1.68°

In you, Mars works easily with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun square Marsorb 1.93°

In you, the Sun grinds against Mars, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Mars square Neptuneorb 4.07°

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.

Mercury trine Plutoorb 4.46°

In you, Mercury flows together with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

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
Jupiter rules Piscesat home

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

Mars trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.9°

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

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

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

Moon trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.2°

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

Mars sextile Uranusorb 1.7°

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

Jupiter trine North Nodeorb 2.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Jupiter and North Node 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.

Jupiter square Saturnorb 0.7°

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

Uranus opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 0.8°

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

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

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

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Sun square Marsorb 1.9°

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

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Chart data for Sidney Poitier
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun1°26' Pisces5th house·
Moon19°31' Libra1st house·
Mercury18°28' Pisces6th housedetriment
Venus23°13' Pisces6th houseexaltation, chart ruler
Mars29°30' Taurus8th housedetriment
Jupiter7°50' Pisces5th houserulership
Saturn7°08' Sagittarius2nd house·
Uranus27°50' Pisces6th house·
Neptune25°26' Leo11th houseretrograde
Pluto14°01' Cancer10th houseretrograde
Chiron28°24' Aries7th house·
North Node5°21' Cancer9th houseretrograde
South Node5°21' Capricorn3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith28°36' Virgo12th house·
Part of Fortune20°45' Aquarius5th house·
Vertex4°59' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersquaresaturn0.70°separating
uranusoppositionlilith0.77°separating
marstrinelilith0.91°separating
moontrinepart-of-fortune1.24°applying
marssextileuranus1.68°separating
sunsquaremars1.93°separating
saturnoppositionvertex2.15°separating
jupitertrinenorth-node2.49°separating
jupitersquarevertex2.85°separating
neptunetrinechiron2.97°separating
sunsextilechiron3.03°separating
sunsquarevertex3.55°applying
suntrinenorth-node3.91°applying
marssquareneptune4.07°separating
mercurytrinepluto4.46°separating
venusconjunctionuranus4.62°applying
neptuneoppositionpart-of-fortune4.69°applying
mercuryconjunctionvenus4.74°applying
venusoppositionlilith5.38°applying
marsconjunctionvertex5.48°applying
moonsquarepluto5.50°separating
sunsquaresaturn5.70°applying
moonsextileneptune5.93°applying
sunoppositionneptune6.00°separating
sunconjunctionjupiter6.40°applying
chironquincunxlilith0.19°separating
venusquintilevertex0.23°separating
north-nodesemisextilevertex0.36°applying
north-nodesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.41°separating
moonsesquiquadratevertex0.47°separating
marssemisquarepluto0.49°separating
uranussemisextilechiron0.58°applying
plutobiquintilepart-of-fortune0.74°separating
saturnbiquintilepluto0.88°applying
mercuryquintilemars0.97°separating
moonquincunxmercury1.04°separating
marssemisextilechiron1.10°separating
saturnquincunxnorth-node1.79°separating
venusquincunxneptune2.23°applying
uranusquincunxneptune2.39°separating