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Kurt Cobain.

20 February 1967 · 19:38 · Aberdeen, Washington
Natal chart for Kurt CobainASCDSCICMC23°VII17°LIII17°SCIII21°SGIV27°CPV27°AQVI23°PIVII17°ARVIII17°TAIX21°GEX27°CNXI27°LEXII06°21'AR09°34'TA11°46'TA13°23'CN+OOB25°41'CN+19°47'VI23°15'VI01°48'SC+09°34'SC24°21'SC01°48'PI13°48'PI18°27'PI24°16'PI26°33'PI+28°43'PI
Plate inativity of Kurt Cobain20 February 1967 · 19:38
the full read

Kurt Cobain'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 Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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.

SunPisces · 6th 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. The self is forged in the practical labour of ordinary days. Work, health, routine and craft are the curriculum, and you know who you are by what you do, and do well.

MoonCancer · 10th 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 is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Pisces in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 NodeTaurus · 8th house · earth element · 1st decan

The pull is toward Taurus: steadiness, your own resources, the plain things that sustain you, the body's simple yes. The familiar groove is Scorpio: intensity, entanglement, living on other people's crises. Growth is a calm that needs no storm to feel real.

South NodeScorpio · 2nd house

The South Node in Scorpio (2nd 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 Virgo rises, Mercury rules the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Mercury · the chart rulerPisces · 6th house

Thought is intuitive and associative, sometimes hard to put into words. The mind works in images and feelings, and the speech can turn poetic or vague. The shadow is the difficulty of translating an inner knowing into language.

Where it drives. The mind is applied to the practical. Analytical, precise and oriented toward useful detail, the work often involves communication or analysis, and perfectionism is the risk.

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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MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius 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.

UranusVirgo · 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 Virgo. 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 Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

NeptuneScorpio · 3rd 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 Scorpio. But in your chart it lands in the 3rd house, the house of mind, words, siblings. 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 3rd house: how you think, speak and learn. 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 mind, words, siblings, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and mind, words, siblings becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

PlutoVirgo · 12th 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 Virgo. 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 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 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 meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and rest, release, the unseen 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 Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundPisces · 7th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. Healing comes from grounded spirituality: boundaries that let compassion be a gift rather than a flood, connection without dissolving. Lesson: feeling everything does not mean carrying everything. The wound negotiates in partnership: being chosen, being met as an equal, the fear of being left. Relationships may repeat the original cut until the pattern is seen. Healing and teaching often flow through the mirror of the one-to-one bond.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 7th house

She doesn't wait for the room to be ready for her. She walks in and lets the room adjust. Somewhere along the way she was probably called intense, intimidating, a lot; usually by people whose comfort she was no longer interested in protecting. Her work is not softening; it's aiming. Force without a target burns the people closest to her. Force with a target builds whole new worlds. 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 Mercury steering and a Pisces 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 Pisces core be fed by a Cancer heart and carried out through a Virgo 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 Mercury 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 trine Marsorb 0.01°

In you, the Sun flows together with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Venus trine Jupiterorb 0.86°

In you, Venus flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 1.10°

In you, Uranus works easily with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 1.33°

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

Jupiter trine Neptuneorb 1.34°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

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.

Kitepattern

Flowing ease with a point of release: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Kitepattern

Flowing ease with a point of release: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Where it works
Uranus opposition Chironorb 1.0°

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

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 1.3°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Mercury and Pluto 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.

Venus opposition Uranusorb 3.3°

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

Pluto opposition Chironorb 4.5°

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

Mercury opposition Uranusorb 4.8°

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

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Chart data for Kurt Cobain
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun1°48' Pisces6th house·
Moon13°23' Cancer10th houserulership
Mercury18°27' Pisces6th housedetriment, chart ruler
Venus26°33' Pisces7th houseexaltation
Mars1°48' Scorpio2nd houserulership
Jupiter25°41' Cancer10th houseretrograde, exaltation
Saturn28°43' Pisces7th house·
Uranus23°15' Virgo12th houseretrograde
Neptune24°21' Scorpio3rd house·
Pluto19°47' Virgo12th houseretrograde
Chiron24°16' Pisces7th house·
North Node9°34' Taurus8th houseretrograde
South Node9°34' Scorpio2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith6°21' Aries7th house·
Part of Fortune11°46' Taurus8th house·
Vertex13°48' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
suntrinemars0.01°separating
neptunetrinechiron0.07°applying
moontrinevertex0.41°separating
venustrinejupiter0.86°separating
uranusoppositionchiron1.03°separating
uranussextileneptune1.10°separating
mercuryoppositionpluto1.33°applying
jupitertrineneptune1.34°applying
jupitertrinechiron1.41°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune1.62°separating
part-of-fortunesextilevertex2.03°separating
venusconjunctionsaturn2.17°applying
north-nodeconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.19°separating
venustrineneptune2.21°separating
venusconjunctionchiron2.28°separating
jupitersextileuranus2.44°applying
jupitertrinesaturn3.03°separating
venusoppositionuranus3.31°separating
uranusconjunctionpluto3.46°applying
moonsextilenorth-node3.81°separating
saturntrineneptune4.38°separating
saturnconjunctionchiron4.45°separating
plutooppositionchiron4.49°separating
mercuryconjunctionvertex4.66°separating
mercuryoppositionuranus4.79°applying
moontrinemercury5.07°applying
saturnoppositionuranus5.48°separating
mercuryconjunctionchiron5.82°applying
mercurytrineneptune5.89°applying
plutooppositionvertex5.99°applying
moonsquarelilith7.04°separating
sunsquareneptune7.47°separating
sunbiquintilejupiter0.12°separating
venussemisquarepart-of-fortune0.21°applying
chironsemisquarenorth-node0.30°applying
venusbiquintilemars0.75°separating
uranussesquiquadratenorth-node1.33°applying
mercurysesquiquadratemars1.66°separating
saturnsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.96°separating
venussemisquarenorth-node1.98°separating