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Edgar Allan Poe.

19 January 1809 · 01:30 · Boston, Massachusetts
Natal chart for Edgar Allan PoeASCDSCICMC11°SCI10°SGII14°CPIII21°AQIV23°PIV20°ARVI11°TAVII10°GEVIII14°CNIX21°LEX23°VIXI20°LIXII08°28'TA23°37'TA22°27'GE00°33'LI18°36'LI08°28'SC09°23'SC01°33'SG06°12'SG28°39'CP28°51'CP09°50'AQ09°07'PI+09°55'PI13°03'PI16°51'PI+
Plate inativity of Edgar Allan Poe19 January 1809 · 01:30
the full read

Edgar Allan Poe's chart, in plain language

A 10-part walk through the chart in five movements, from the core self out to the horizon. The essentials stay in view; anything marked with a small arrow folds open for the finer detail. Jump to any part below, or click a planet, house or aspect on the wheel above for the deep dive.

New to birth charts? The thirty-second primer
  • Planets are the what: ten drives every person carries. The Moon is how you feel, Mercury is how you think, Mars is how you act.
  • Signs are the how: the style each drive wears. A Moon in Taurus feels slowly and steadily; a Moon in Aries feels fast and hot.
  • Houses are the where: twelve areas of life, so the same drive plays out at work, at home, or in love depending on which room it sits in.
  • Aspects are the conversations: angles between two planets that make their drives cooperate, argue, or fuse into one force.

Every reading below follows that grammar: planet (what) in sign (how) in house (where). If you only read one section, read the Big Three; everything after it is that story told in finer and finer detail.

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 Scorpio 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 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.

SunCapricorn · 3rd 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 come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.

MoonPisces · 4th 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. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

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RisingScorpio · the doorway

You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Libra in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio 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 NodeScorpio · 12th house · water element · 1st decan

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: the decan and the degree

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

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

Because Scorpio rises, Mars rules the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Mars · the chart rulerLibra · 11th house

The drive is considered and diplomatic, expressed through negotiation, uneasy with overt aggression. The shadow is suppressing anger in the name of harmony.

Where it drives. Energy is spent on the cause. You drive a group forward, the friend circle can be contentious, and the future is something to be fought for.

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
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, this is the private root the public aura grows from. The lowest point in the chart. Imum Coeli. The ground beneath the feet. The IC is the point directly opposite the Midheaven. The deepest, most interior, most hidden point in the chart. It marks the cusp of the fourth house. Where the Midheaven describes the public face, the IC describes the private foundation. The home life. The roots. The ground the person stands on when no one is watching. The sign on the IC describes the texture of the inner life. The atmosphere of the childhood home. The deep, unspoken emotional climate that the person carries inside themselves regardless of what is happening on the surface.

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.

Your Generational Role

Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move so slowly that a whole generation shares each sign. The sign is the era you were born into; the house is your personal assignment within it. This is your generational role: the corner of life where the big shift becomes your job to carry, with a lesson to learn and a gift waiting on the other side of it.

UranusScorpio · 12th house

where you break from the past. Uranus carries the urge to break free, wake up, and overturn what has gone stale.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Uranus in Scorpio. But in your chart it lands in the 12th house, the house of rest, release, the unseen. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to break what has gone stale and wire up what comes next. Your personal share of that work is the 12th house: the inner life, rest and the unseen. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of rest, release, the unseen, your work is tolerating the instability that real freedom costs, and rebelling toward something rather than only away from it.The giftDo that work, and rest, release, the unseen becomes exactly where you offer the world originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

The era you were born into: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

NeptuneSagittarius · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Neptune carries the pull toward the boundless: dream, faith, compassion, and the dissolving of every edge.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Neptune in Sagittarius. But in your chart it lands in the 1st house, the house of self, body, first impression. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. Your personal share of that work is the 1st house: your own self, your body and the way you show up. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of self, body, first impression, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and self, body, first impression becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

PlutoPisces · 4th house

where you are remade. Pluto carries the drive to destroy what is finished and regenerate it from the root.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Pluto in Pisces. But in your chart it lands in the 4th house, the house of home, roots, family. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to take worn-out structures down to the root and rebuild them from the power that was buried. Your personal share of that work is the 4th house: home, family and your foundations. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of home, roots, family, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and home, roots, family becomes exactly where you offer the world regenerative depth, unbreakable will, and the power to transform yourself and the people around you.

The era you were born into: Pluto in Pisces

An era that remakes the spiritual and the dissolved, putting the source itself through death and rebirth.

Wound & Shadow

Chiron marks the wound: the place that aches, and the place you can eventually heal others from. Black Moon Lilith marks the exiled self: the raw, untamed part that was told to behave.

Chiron · the woundAquarius · 3rd house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. Healing comes from prizing your difference: it is the gift, and somewhere a community needs exactly the genius that set you apart. Lesson: fitting in was never the assignment. The wound lives in voice and mind: being heard, being thought clever, finding words for hard things. Siblings, school or early messaging may have cut here. Healing arrives through speaking anyway and becoming someone others trust to name what is true.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 7th house

She knows what her time is worth and she's done explaining the math. She's the woman who can sit in a room without filling the silence; the one whose body language ends conversations she didn't want to have. Her wound is the long, quiet history of being treated like a resource. Her medicine is the slow, unhurried act of refusing to be one. Lilith negotiates in partnership. You attract intensity, then are asked to lower the flame. The pattern breaks when you stop choosing partners who need you digestible. Intimacy wants the real conversation, not the polite one.

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

Raw materials, not a verdict. Everything above was the chart describing itself. This is where it hands the pen to you.

This chart describes a capacity to feel accurately: to read what is truly happening beneath the surface and hold it with care. You are wired to adapt: your gift shows up when you stay fluid and let the work change shape as it goes. With Mars steering and a Capricorn Sun at the core, the potential here is not a fixed fate; it is a set of raw materials. The chart names the tools. What gets built with them is the part astrology cannot tell you, and the part that is entirely yours.

Underneath everything, this is a chart learning to let a Capricorn core be fed by a Pisces heart and carried out through a Scorpio face: three different instincts that only become one person when you stop making them compete.

the charge

Here is what the wheel cannot tell you. It hands you water: feeling, depth, and the will to care, and you are built to adapt and transform things. It gives you Mars as your compass and a map of where the pressure and the ease already live. But none of it is a verdict; it is equipment. The chart is the raw material; the life is what you make of it. That part was never written in the sky. It has always been yours to write.

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.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 0.20°

In you, the Sun is fused with Mercury, bringing together your core identity and will and your mind and how you communicate. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus trine Uranusorb 0.26°

In you, Venus flows together with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Moon trine Uranusorb 0.54°

In you, the Moon flows together with Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Moon conjunction Venusorb 0.80°

In you, the Moon is fused with Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Sun sextile Saturnorb 2.70°

In you, the Sun works easily with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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
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.

Venus trine Uranusorb 0.3°

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

Moon trine Uranusorb 0.5°

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

Venus trine North Nodeorb 0.7°

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

Saturn sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

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.

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

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

Where it works
Uranus square Chironorb 0.4°

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

Chiron square North Nodeorb 1.4°

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

Mars in detriment in Librauphill

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

Venus square Neptuneorb 2.9°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 3.7°

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

Jupiter square Vertexorb 5.6°

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

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Chart data for Edgar Allan Poe
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°51' Capricorn3rd house·
Moon9°55' Pisces4th house·
Mercury28°39' Capricorn3rd house·
Venus9°07' Pisces4th houseexaltation
Mars18°36' Libra11th housedetriment, chart ruler
Jupiter16°51' Pisces4th houserulership
Saturn1°33' Sagittarius1st house·
Uranus9°23' Scorpio12th house·
Neptune6°12' Sagittarius1st house·
Pluto13°03' Pisces4th house·
Chiron9°50' Aquarius3rd house·
North Node8°28' Scorpio12th houseretrograde
South Node8°28' Taurus6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith23°37' Taurus7th house·
Part of Fortune0°33' Libra11th house·
Vertex22°27' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunconjunctionmercury0.20°applying
venustrineuranus0.26°applying
uranussquarechiron0.45°separating
moontrineuranus0.54°separating
venustrinenorth-node0.65°separating
moonconjunctionvenus0.80°separating
uranusconjunctionnorth-node0.92°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune1.00°separating
chironsquarenorth-node1.36°separating
moontrinenorth-node1.45°separating
suntrinepart-of-fortune1.71°applying
mercurytrinepart-of-fortune1.90°applying
sunsextilesaturn2.70°applying
mercurysextilesaturn2.90°applying
venussquareneptune2.93°separating
moonconjunctionpluto3.13°applying
neptunesextilechiron3.63°separating
uranustrinepluto3.67°applying
moonsquareneptune3.72°separating
jupiterconjunctionpluto3.80°separating
marstrinevertex3.85°applying
venusconjunctionpluto3.93°applying
plutotrinenorth-node4.58°separating
saturnconjunctionneptune4.65°applying
mercurytrinelilith5.04°separating
suntrinelilith5.24°separating
jupitersquarevertex5.59°applying
moonconjunctionjupiter6.93°applying
moonsemisextilechiron0.09°separating
mercurybiquintilevertex0.20°separating
sunbiquintilevertex0.40°separating
marsbiquintilepluto0.45°applying
mercurysemisquarepluto0.60°separating
venussemisextilechiron0.71°applying
sunsemisquarepluto0.79°separating
marsbiquintilelilith0.99°separating
north-nodesesquiquadratevertex1.02°applying
lilithsemisextilevertex1.16°separating
plutoquintilelilith1.44°applying
marsquincunxjupiter1.75°separating
uranussesquiquadratevertex1.94°separating