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Ta-Nehisi Coates.

30 September 1975 · time unknown · Baltimore, Maryland
unknown birth time · rising?

Ta-Nehisi Coates's birth chart: Sun in Libra, Moon in Leo. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born September 30, 1975 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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What is Ta-Nehisi Coates's sun sign?

Ta-Nehisi Coates's sun is in Libra.

What is Ta-Nehisi Coates's moon sign?

Ta-Nehisi Coates's moon is in Leo.

What is Ta-Nehisi Coates's rising sign?

Ta-Nehisi Coates's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown. Asteria does not invent house cusps from noon.

When and where was Ta-Nehisi Coates born?

Ta-Nehisi Coates was born September 30, 1975 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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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 Libra is the core self, your Moon in Leo 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 air 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.

SunLibra · 10th house

The self becomes visible in the mirror of the other. Diplomatic, aesthetic, drawn to partnership and beauty, and prone to losing the self in keeping the peace. Lesson: choosing is not a betrayal of fairness. The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonLeo · 8th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Feeling runs intense, private and underground. Strong psychic sensitivity here, often an inheritance of family emotional patterns, and the depths are where you are at home.

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RisingSagittarius? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. 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 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 NodeScorpio · 12th house

The pull is toward Scorpio: depth, honest intimacy, transformation, the courage to let things end. The familiar groove is Taurus: comfort, possession, staying because it is easy. Growth is trading safety for what is actually alive.

South NodeTaurus · 6th house

The South Node in Taurus (6th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Cancer, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

The degree. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

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 rulerAries · 4th house

Growth comes through action, courage and beginnings, carried by faith in the new. The shadow is an ego inflated by constant starting with no follow-through.

Where it drives. Abundance is at the foundation. Often a large family or a generous home, fortunate in origins, or able to find fortune by way of them.

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
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

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 cardinal 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 woundAries · 5th 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 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowPisces · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that picks up what everyone is carrying, including what they hide. It is sensitivity that was called too much. The medicine is reclaiming that perception as authority, not apology. 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 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to relate, balance, and make beauty that includes other people.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  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, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Libra. 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 water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Libra Sun · Leo Moon · Sagittarius rising? Your Sun in Libra is the core self, your Moon in Leo 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 air 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
56%
Earth
8%
Air
36%
Water
0%
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 Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Mercury, Pluto, Sun

In your chart, Mercury, Pluto, Sun gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Stellium in Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Moon, Saturn, Venus

In your chart, Moon, Saturn, Venus gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Leo 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 Leo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Leo 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.

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.06°

In you, Saturn grinds against Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.41°

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 trine Marsorb 0.91°

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

Sun conjunction Plutoorb 2.17°

In you, the Sun is fused with Pluto, bringing together your core identity and will and your relationship to power and deep change. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mercury opposition Jupiterorb 2.25°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

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
Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.4°

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 trine Marsorb 0.9°

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

Moon sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.3°

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

Venus trine Chironorb 1.6°

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

Saturn sextile Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

An easy, available link: Saturn 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 Chironorb 2.2°

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

Where it works
Sun in fall in Librastrained

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

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.1°

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

Jupiter square Vertexorb 1.3°

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

Mars square Black Moon Lilithorb 2.0°

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

Mercury opposition Jupiterorb 2.3°

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

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Chart data for Ta-Nehisi Coates
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun6°52' Libra10th housefall
Moon4°30' Leo8th house·
Mercury23°37' Libra11th houseretrograde
Venus28°17' Leo9th house·
Mars24°31' Gemini7th house·
Jupiter21°22' Aries4th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Saturn1°09' Leo8th housedetriment
Uranus1°12' Scorpio11th house·
Neptune9°27' Sagittarius1st house·
Pluto9°02' Libra10th house·
Chiron26°43' Aries5th houseretrograde
North Node22°49' Scorpio12th houseretrograde
South Node22°49' Taurus6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith26°33' Pisces4th house·
Part of Fortune3°10' Libra10th house·
Vertex20°01' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnsquareuranus0.06°applying
neptunesextilepluto0.41°applying
mercurytrinemars0.91°separating
moonsextilepart-of-fortune1.32°separating
jupitersquarevertex1.34°applying
venustrinechiron1.58°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune2.02°applying
marssquarelilith2.03°applying
sunconjunctionpluto2.17°applying
marssextilechiron2.19°applying
mercuryoppositionjupiter2.25°applying
sunsextilemoon2.37°applying
sunsextileneptune2.58°applying
north-nodetrinevertex2.80°applying
venussextileuranus2.92°applying
mercuryoppositionchiron3.10°separating
marssextilejupiter3.16°separating
moonsquareuranus3.29°separating
moonconjunctionsaturn3.35°separating
mercurysquarevertex3.59°applying
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune3.69°separating
north-nodetrinelilith3.72°separating
venussextilemars3.77°separating
saturnsquarechiron4.43°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.50°separating
moonsextilepluto4.54°applying
saturntrinelilith4.60°applying
moontrineneptune4.95°applying
jupiterconjunctionchiron5.35°separating
venussquarenorth-node5.46°separating
sunsextilesaturn5.72°separating
plutoconjunctionpart-of-fortune5.87°separating
moonsquarechiron7.78°separating
moontrinelilith7.95°separating
chironsemisextilelilith0.16°applying
mercurysemisextilenorth-node0.79°applying
mercurysemisquareneptune0.83°separating
sunsemisquarenorth-node0.96°applying
part-of-fortunequintilevertex1.15°separating
plutosemisquarenorth-node1.21°separating
uranusbiquintilelilith1.34°separating
jupiterquincunxnorth-node1.46°separating
marsquincunxnorth-node1.70°separating
venusquincunxlilith1.74°separating
uranussemisextilepart-of-fortune1.96°applying