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Miles Davis.

26 May 1926 · 05:00 · Alton, Illinois
Natal chart for Miles DavisASCDSCICMC20°TAI17°GEII8°CNIII0°LEIV27°LEV4°LIVI20°SCVII17°SGVIII8°CPIX0°AQX27°AQXI4°ARXII21°38'AR00°04'TA23°26'TA04°23'GE13°15'CN17°05'CN22°08'LE28°21'LE23°21'LI20°54'SC21°53'SC04°03'SG17°05'CP26°28'AQ16°16'PI28°48'PI
Plate inativity of Miles Davis26 May 1926 · 05:00
the full read

Miles Davis'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 Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunGemini · 1st house

Curiosity is the engine of the self. A quick mind and plural interests, allergic to being pinned to a single version of who you are. The translator, the eternal student, restless because rest feels like dying. Lesson: depth is not the enemy of range. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonScorpio · 7th house

Feeling runs intense, private and all the way down. Strong instincts, fierce loyalty, slow to trust. The shadow is the iron grip on what cannot be controlled. Soothing needs absolute privacy and the right person. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

ASC
RisingTaurus · the doorway

You arrive slowly and without apology. The room becomes more anchored when you enter it. You take up your space the way a stone takes up its space, fully and without hurry. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Aries in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Taurus 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 · 3rd house · water element · 2nd decan

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 · 9th house

The South Node in Capricorn (9th 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 Scorpio; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Because Taurus rises, Venus rules 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 rulerAries · 12th house

Love runs fast, hot and pursuit-driven. Attraction is direct, and the appetite is for the chase or the conquest. The shadow is losing interest the moment the win is secured.

Where it drives. Love lives in the hidden places. Private affections, a quiet artistic life and deep compassion, with a shadow of self-sabotage to watch in matters of the heart.

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
MidheavenAquarius · the 10th house

With Aquarius on the Midheaven, a room senses independence: someone original, principled, who does not run on the usual rules. Planets in the 10th (Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLeo · the 4th house

With Leo 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 fixed 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.

UranusPisces · 11th 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 Pisces. But in your chart it lands in the 11th house, the house of friends, community, future. 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 11th house: friendship, community and the future you are building. 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 friends, community, future, 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 friends, community, future 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 Pisces

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

NeptuneLeo · 4th 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 Leo. 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 dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. 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 telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and home, roots, family becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Leo

An era that dreams of universal creativity, the spiritualising of celebrity and self-expression.

PlutoCancer · 3rd 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 Cancer. 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 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 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 meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and mind, words, siblings 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 Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundTaurus · 12th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. Healing comes from valuing yourself plainly, enjoying the physical world without guilt, and building safety in small, steady steps. Lesson: enough is a practice, not a verdict handed down by others. The wound hides in the inner life: old grief, spiritual overwhelm, the part of the cut that has no obvious cause. Solitude can heal or haunt depending on whether the exile is conscious. Healing comes through compassionate retreat and work with what is unseen.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 5th house

She was the kid who lit up rooms and then learned, somewhere along the way, that lighting up rooms made smaller people uncomfortable. She dimmed. She apologized. She let other people have the spotlight she was built to hold. Her wound is the long compromise of being loved for being smaller. Her medicine is showing back up to her own life at full brightness. Lilith meets creativity, pleasure and romance. Desire and creative impulse arrive in capital letters here. Suppressing the fire does not make it smaller; it makes it leak sideways into drama or resentment.

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 sustain: your gift compounds when you commit and refuse to abandon the thing halfway. With Venus steering and a Gemini 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 Gemini core be fed by a Scorpio heart and carried out through a Taurus 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 hold and sustain things. It gives you Venus 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.

Saturn square Neptuneorb 0.25°

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

Venus trine Neptuneorb 0.49°

In you, Venus flows together with Neptune, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Moon conjunction Saturnorb 0.98°

In you, the Moon is fused with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 square Neptuneorb 1.23°

In you, the Moon grinds against Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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 square Neptuneorb 1.31°

In you, Mercury grinds against Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

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
Grand Trinepattern

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

Venus trine Neptuneorb 0.5°

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

Mars trine North Nodeorb 0.8°

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

Neptune sextile Vertexorb 1.2°

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

Chiron trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.7°

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

Mars trine Plutoorb 3.0°

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

Where it works
Moon in fall in Scorpiostrained

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

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

does this land for you? tell me · your read shapes the next build.

Chart data for Miles Davis
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun4°23' Gemini1st house·
Moon20°54' Scorpio7th housefall
Mercury23°26' Taurus1st house·
Venus21°38' Aries12th housedetriment, chart ruler
Mars16°16' Pisces11th house·
Jupiter26°28' Aquarius10th house·
Saturn21°53' Scorpio7th houseretrograde
Uranus28°48' Pisces11th house·
Neptune22°08' Leo4th house·
Pluto13°15' Cancer3rd house·
Chiron0°04' Taurus12th house·
North Node17°05' Cancer3rd houseretrograde
South Node17°05' Capricorn9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith28°21' Leo5th house·
Part of Fortune4°03' Sagittarius7th house·
Vertex23°21' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnsquareneptune0.25°separating
sunoppositionpart-of-fortune0.33°separating
venustrineneptune0.49°applying
marstrinenorth-node0.83°applying
moonconjunctionsaturn0.98°applying
neptunesextilevertex1.22°applying
moonsquareneptune1.23°applying
mercurysquareneptune1.31°separating
mercuryoppositionsaturn1.56°separating
venusoppositionvertex1.71°applying
chirontrinelilith1.71°applying
jupiteroppositionlilith1.89°separating
moonoppositionmercury2.54°applying
marstrinepluto3.01°separating
mercurysquarejupiter3.03°applying
jupitertrinevertex3.12°separating
jupitersextilechiron3.60°applying
moontrinenorth-node3.81°separating
plutoconjunctionnorth-node3.84°applying
jupiteroppositionneptune4.34°separating
venussquarenorth-node4.55°separating
jupitersquaresaturn4.59°separating
moontrinemars4.64°separating
saturntrinenorth-node4.79°separating
mercurysquarelilith4.91°applying
uranustrinepart-of-fortune5.24°applying
moonsquarejupiter5.57°applying
sunsextileuranus5.58°separating
marstrinesaturn5.62°applying
lilithsquarepart-of-fortune5.70°applying
sunsquarelilith6.03°separating
moonsquarelilith7.45°applying
moontrinepluto7.65°separating
moontrineuranus7.91°applying
sunsquarejupiter7.92°separating
mercuryquincunxvertex0.09°separating
plutosemisquarelilith0.10°separating
venusquincunxsaturn0.24°applying
uranusquincunxlilith0.46°applying
uranusbiquintileneptune0.68°separating
moonquincunxvenus0.74°applying
marsbiquintilevertex1.09°applying
plutoquintilechiron1.19°applying
marssemisquarechiron1.20°separating
uranussemisextilechiron1.26°separating
saturnsemisextilevertex1.47°separating
jupitersesquiquadratepluto1.78°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus1.80°separating
north-nodesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.96°separating