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Otis Redding.

9 September 1941 · 12:00 · Dawson, Georgia
noon chart · houses approximate
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Plate inativity of Otis Redding9 September 1941 · 12:00
the full read

Otis Redding'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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Taurus 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.

SunVirgo · 10th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. 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.

MoonTaurus · 5th house

Feeling is steady, sensual and slow. Comfort comes from the body, from familiar textures, from food and routine. Once attached, the attachment is permanent. The shadow is stuckness dressed up as loyalty to the past. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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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 Aries in the 5th 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 NodeVirgo · 10th house · earth element · 3rd decan

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 4th house

The South Node in Pisces (4th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Taurus, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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 rulerAries · 5th house

Mars is at home here. The drive is direct and fast, sometimes reckless. Anger erupts quickly and clears quickly, and the will is pure. The shadow is being unable to wait.

Where it drives. Desire goes into creation and play. A passionate lover, competitive at games, with a strong creative drive and, sometimes, friction with children.

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, Mercury, Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces 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 earth and mutable signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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 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.

UranusGemini · 7th 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 Gemini. But in your chart it lands in the 7th house, the house of partnership, the other. 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 7th house: partnership and the one-to-one bond. 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 partnership, the other, 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 partnership, the other 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 Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

NeptuneVirgo · 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 Virgo. 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 Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

PlutoLeo · 9th 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 Leo. 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 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 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 meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and belief, travel, meaning 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 Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship 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 woundLeo · 9th house

The wound is being seen: a fear that the real you is not special enough to love, so you dim your light or chase validation that never quite lands. Applause can feel like oxygen and still leave you hollow. Healing comes from creating for its own joy and meeting the inner child again: your worth is inherent, not won by applause. Lesson: the heart shines brightest when it is not auditioning. The wound touches belief and meaning: faith, the search, whether your worldview can hold weight. Teachers, religion or culture may have bruised here. Healing arrives through finding a philosophy you actually live and passing that earned hope to others.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 6th 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 lives in daily life, work and the body. Routines designed by other people quietly suffocate you; discipline easily becomes self-punishment until you learn the difference. The ordinary day must feel like yours.

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 build: to turn vision into something real, durable and genuinely useful in the world. 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 Virgo 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 Virgo core be fed by a Taurus 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 earth: patience, craft, and the will to build, 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.

Venus opposition Marsorb 0.13°

In you, Venus sits opposite Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 0.78°

In you, Mercury works easily with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.53°

In you, Saturn flows together with Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Saturn conjunction Uranusorb 1.80°

In you, Saturn is fused with Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 3.33°

In you, Uranus flows together with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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
Venus rules Libraat home

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

Mars rules Ariesat home

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

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 0.8°

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

Moon exalted in Tauruslifted

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

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.5°

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

Sun sextile Vertexorb 1.9°

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

Where it works
Venus opposition Marsorb 0.1°

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

Jupiter in detriment in Geminiuphill

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

Jupiter square North Nodeorb 2.8°

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

Sun square Jupiterorb 3.3°

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

Moon square Plutoorb 3.4°

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

Venus square Vertexorb 5.0°

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

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Chart data for Otis Redding
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°36' Virgo10th house·
Moon1°43' Taurus5th houseexaltation
Mercury4°18' Libra10th house·
Venus23°31' Libra11th houserulership
Mars23°39' Aries5th houseretrograde, rulership, chart ruler
Jupiter19°56' Gemini7th housedetriment
Saturn28°32' Taurus7th house·
Uranus0°20' Gemini7th houseretrograde
Neptune27°01' Virgo10th house·
Pluto5°05' Leo9th house·
Chiron9°48' Leo9th house·
North Node22°44' Virgo10th house·
South Node22°44' Pisces4th house·
Black Moon Lilith20°35' Taurus6th house·
Part of Fortune13°24' Cancer8th house·
Vertex18°29' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venusoppositionmars0.13°applying
mercurysextilepluto0.78°applying
saturntrineneptune1.53°applying
saturnconjunctionuranus1.80°applying
sunsextilevertex1.90°applying
lilithsextilevertex2.10°separating
north-nodetrinelilith2.14°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node2.80°applying
sunsextilepart-of-fortune3.19°separating
uranustrineneptune3.33°applying
sunsquarejupiter3.34°applying
moonsquarepluto3.35°applying
venustrinejupiter3.59°separating
marssextilejupiter3.72°applying
mercurytrineuranus3.96°separating
suntrinelilith3.99°applying
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node4.28°separating
plutoconjunctionchiron4.72°separating
venussquarevertex5.03°separating
part-of-fortuneconjunctionvertex5.09°separating
marssquarevertex5.16°applying
mercurytrinesaturn5.76°separating
saturntrinenorth-node5.81°applying
sunconjunctionnorth-node6.14°applying
sunsesquiquadratemoon0.13°separating
saturnsemisquarepart-of-fortune0.14°separating
jupitersemisquarepluto0.14°applying
moonquintilepart-of-fortune0.32°separating
jupitersemisextilelilith0.65°separating
saturnquintilechiron0.74°applying
venussemisextilenorth-node0.79°separating
venusbiquintileuranus0.82°applying
marsquincunxnorth-node0.92°applying
venusbiquintilesaturn0.98°separating
sunbiquintilemars1.05°applying
moonbiquintileneptune1.29°applying
mercurysesquiquadratelilith1.29°applying
moonsemisextileuranus1.38°separating
jupitersemisextilevertex1.44°separating
uranussemisquarepart-of-fortune1.94°applying