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Sidney Poitier.

20 February 1927 · 21:00 · Miami, Florida
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Plate inativity of Sidney Poitier20 February 1927 · 21:00
the full read

Sidney Poitier'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 Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 air 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 · 5th 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. You come alive in what you make. Creativity, play, romance and children are where the self is authored. The house of joy is, for you, the house of identity.

MoonLibra · 1st house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Pisces in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 · 9th house · water element · 1st 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 · 3rd house

The South Node in Capricorn (3rd 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.

Chart Ruler

Because Libra 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 rulerPisces · 6th house

Venus is exalted here. Love is unconditional, romantic and transcendent, with an enormous capacity for compassion. The shadow is losing the self in the merger.

Where it drives. Affection runs through the everyday. The working environment tends to be pleasant, the body is well-tended, and love can arrive through the workplace.

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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MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn 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.

UranusPisces · 6th 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 6th house, the house of work, health, routine. 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 6th house: work, health and the daily routine. 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 work, health, routine, 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 work, health, routine 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 · 11th 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 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 dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. 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 telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and friends, community, future 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 · 10th 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 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 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 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 meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and career, reputation, calling 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 woundAries · 7th 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 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 shadowVirgo · 12th house

She was the precise one, the careful one, the one who held the whole thing together. Then she realized that holding the whole thing together was draining her of the very precision she was using to do it. Her wound is the long history of being needed for her competence and overlooked as a person. Her medicine is the radical act of leaving the dishes and going to live her actual life. Lilith hides in the inner life, dreams and what runs underground. The fire burns inward when it has no outlet; solitude is sanctuary or prison depending on whether you are creating or only suppressing. The depth was never the problem.

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 Venus 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 Libra heart and carried out through a Libra 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 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.

Jupiter square Saturnorb 0.70°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Mars sextile Uranusorb 1.68°

In you, Mars works easily with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun square Marsorb 1.93°

In you, the Sun grinds against Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Mars square Neptuneorb 4.07°

In you, Mars grinds against Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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 trine Plutoorb 4.46°

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

Mars trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.9°

A natural, flowing ease: Mars and Black Moon Lilith 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.

Moon trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.2°

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

Mars sextile Uranusorb 1.7°

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

Jupiter trine North Nodeorb 2.5°

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

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

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

Jupiter square Saturnorb 0.7°

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

Uranus opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 0.8°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Uranus and Black Moon Lilith 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.

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Sun square Marsorb 1.9°

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

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Chart data for Sidney Poitier
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun1°26' Pisces5th house·
Moon19°31' Libra1st house·
Mercury18°28' Pisces6th housedetriment
Venus23°13' Pisces6th houseexaltation, chart ruler
Mars29°30' Taurus8th housedetriment
Jupiter7°50' Pisces5th houserulership
Saturn7°08' Sagittarius2nd house·
Uranus27°50' Pisces6th house·
Neptune25°26' Leo11th houseretrograde
Pluto14°01' Cancer10th houseretrograde
Chiron28°24' Aries7th house·
North Node5°21' Cancer9th houseretrograde
South Node5°21' Capricorn3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith28°36' Virgo12th house·
Part of Fortune20°45' Aquarius5th house·
Vertex4°59' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersquaresaturn0.70°separating
uranusoppositionlilith0.77°separating
marstrinelilith0.91°separating
moontrinepart-of-fortune1.24°applying
marssextileuranus1.68°separating
sunsquaremars1.93°separating
saturnoppositionvertex2.15°separating
jupitertrinenorth-node2.49°separating
jupitersquarevertex2.85°separating
neptunetrinechiron2.97°separating
sunsextilechiron3.03°separating
sunsquarevertex3.55°applying
suntrinenorth-node3.91°applying
marssquareneptune4.07°separating
mercurytrinepluto4.46°separating
venusconjunctionuranus4.62°applying
neptuneoppositionpart-of-fortune4.69°applying
mercuryconjunctionvenus4.74°applying
venusoppositionlilith5.38°applying
marsconjunctionvertex5.48°applying
moonsquarepluto5.50°separating
sunsquaresaturn5.70°applying
moonsextileneptune5.93°applying
sunoppositionneptune6.00°separating
sunconjunctionjupiter6.40°applying
chironquincunxlilith0.19°separating
venusquintilevertex0.23°separating
north-nodesemisextilevertex0.36°applying
north-nodesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.41°separating
moonsesquiquadratevertex0.47°separating
marssemisquarepluto0.49°separating
uranussemisextilechiron0.58°applying
plutobiquintilepart-of-fortune0.74°separating
saturnbiquintilepluto0.88°applying
mercuryquintilemars0.97°separating
moonquincunxmercury1.04°separating
marssemisextilechiron1.10°separating
saturnquincunxnorth-node1.79°separating
venusquincunxneptune2.23°applying
uranusquincunxneptune2.39°separating