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KAWS.

4 November 1974 · 12:00 · Jersey City, New Jersey
noon chart · houses approximate
Natal chart for KAWSASCDSCICMC22°CPI7°PIII17°ARIII16°TAIV9°GEV29°GEVI22°CNVII7°VIVIII17°LIIX16°SCX9°SGXI29°SGXII21°18'AR10°28'GE10°25'CN+18°53'CN27°10'LE21°23'VI08°00'LI24°59'LI29°00'LI05°00'SC+11°25'SC11°53'SC08°20'SG10°28'SG19°36'AQ07°59'PIS+
Plate inativity of KAWS4 November 1974 · 12:00
the full read

KAWS'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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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.

SunScorpio · 9th house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonCancer · 6th house

The Moon is at home here. Deep emotional attunement, a long memory, a profound need for sanctuary. The interior is vast and the shell is real. Soothing requires safety, history and the felt sense of being held. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingCapricorn · the doorway

You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Cancer in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Capricorn 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 NodeSagittarius · 11th house · fire element · 2nd decan

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 5th house

The South Node in Gemini (5th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Aries; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Because Capricorn rises, Saturn rules 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 rulerCancer · 6th house

Saturn is in detriment here. The work is on emotional life and belonging: lessons in being safe inside the self. The shadow is emotional armour.

Where it drives. The body teaches through limitation. Often a demanding job or a chronic health issue, with mastery of the practice arriving through sheer accumulated effort.

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.

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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. Planets in the 10th (Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus 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 cardinal 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.

UranusLibra · 9th 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 Libra. But in your chart it lands in the 9th house, the house of belief, travel, meaning. 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 9th house: belief, travel and the search for meaning. 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 belief, travel, meaning, 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 belief, travel, meaning 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 Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

NeptuneSagittarius · 10th 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 10th house, the house of career, reputation, calling. 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 10th house: career, reputation and your public path. 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 career, reputation, calling, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and career, reputation, calling 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.

PlutoLibra · 8th 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 Libra. But in your chart it lands in the 8th house, the house of intimacy, depth, the shared. 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 8th house: intimacy, shared resources and what gets transformed. 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 intimacy, depth, the shared, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and intimacy, depth, the shared 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 Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundAries · 3rd 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. Healing comes through the inner warrior: asserting yourself without apology, channelling anger cleanly, and learning your existence was never in doubt. Lesson: the fight for your place was already won. 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 shadowAquarius · 1st house

She figured out early that the rules weren't built for her, so she stopped trying to make herself fit them. Her wound is the long loneliness of being the odd one in every room. Her medicine is finding the other odd ones and building rooms of their own. Lilith shows on the surface before you speak. Presence, body, the charge people feel in the threshold: magnetic, unapologetic, hard to edit into a smaller costume. Dimming here costs self-erasure; owning it leaves a mark the room does not forget.

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 begin: your gift only fully arrives when you let yourself be the one who starts. With Saturn steering and a Scorpio 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 Scorpio core be fed by a Cancer heart and carried out through a Capricorn 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 start things. It gives you Saturn 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.34°

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.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 0.35°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 0.46°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Moon trine Venusorb 1.01°

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.

Sun trine Moonorb 1.48°

In you, the Sun flows together with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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
Moon rules Cancerat home

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

Mars rules Scorpioat home

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

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.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Where it works
Jupiter square Neptuneorb 0.4°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

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

Moon square Plutoorb 2.4°

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

Saturn square Chironorb 2.4°

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

Jupiter square North Nodeorb 2.5°

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

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Chart data for KAWS
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun11°53' Scorpio9th house·
Moon10°25' Cancer6th houserulership
Mercury24°59' Libra9th house·
Venus11°25' Scorpio9th housedetriment
Mars5°00' Scorpio9th houserulership
Jupiter7°59' Pisces2nd houserulership
Saturn18°53' Cancer6th houseretrograde, detriment, chart ruler
Uranus29°00' Libra9th house·
Neptune8°20' Sagittarius10th house·
Pluto8°00' Libra8th house·
Chiron21°18' Aries3rd houseretrograde
North Node10°28' Sagittarius11th house·
South Node10°28' Gemini5th house·
Black Moon Lilith19°36' Aquarius1st house·
Part of Fortune21°23' Virgo8th house·
Vertex27°10' Leo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilepluto0.34°separating
jupitersquareneptune0.35°separating
sunconjunctionvenus0.46°applying
moontrinevenus1.01°applying
suntrinemoon1.48°applying
chironsextilelilith1.70°applying
uranussextilevertex1.83°separating
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node2.14°applying
mercurysextilevertex2.18°applying
moonsquarepluto2.42°separating
saturnsquarechiron2.42°applying
moontrinejupiter2.43°separating
plutosextilenorth-node2.48°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node2.49°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune2.50°separating
marstrinejupiter2.98°applying
venustrinejupiter3.44°separating
mercuryoppositionchiron3.68°separating
suntrinejupiter3.91°separating
mercuryconjunctionuranus4.01°applying
mercurytrinelilith5.38°separating
moontrinemars5.41°separating
chirontrinevertex5.86°separating
sunconjunctionmars6.89°separating
suntrinesaturn7.00°applying
sunsquarelilith7.72°applying
jupiterquincunxpluto0.01°separating
moonquincunxnorth-node0.06°separating
chironquincunxpart-of-fortune0.08°separating
mercurysemisquarenorth-node0.49°applying
saturnquincunxlilith0.72°separating
neptunequintilelilith0.73°applying
venussemisextilenorth-node0.95°separating
moonquintilepart-of-fortune1.02°separating
marssemisquarepart-of-fortune1.39°applying
sunsemisextilenorth-node1.41°separating
mercurysemisquareneptune1.65°separating
jupitersemisquarechiron1.67°separating
moonsemisquarevertex1.76°applying
lilithquincunxpart-of-fortune1.78°applying
moonquincunxneptune2.08°separating