Charles Mingus’s birth chart

Charles Mingus's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

1. ☉Sun in Taurus

   ♉ 1° Taurus 51'

   purpose and vitality

   They find purpose in building something that lasts, and their vitality runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The tension is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. It shows up in how long they stay at one job or one home before they will admit it is time to move.

2. ☽Moon in Pisces

   ♓ 12° Pisces 54'

   needs and habits

   Their daily mood is porous, picking up the emotional temperature of a room without they choosing to. Charles is restored by quiet, music or time near water more than by talking things out. The tension is not noticing how much of what they feel actually belongs to someone else.

3. ☿Mercury in Aries

   ♈ 29° Aries 37'

   mind and voice

   They think in quick, decisive strokes and say what they mean without much preamble. The tension is speaking before the thought is fully formed, which can come across sharper than intended. It shows up as finishing other people's sentences and preferring a fast decision to a long meeting.

4. ♀Venus in Taurus

   ♉ 19° Taurus 52'

   love and values

   They love steadily and show it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures. They value loyalty and things built to last. The tension is holding onto a relationship past its natural end because change feels like loss. It shows up as remembering exactly how someone takes their coffee, months in.

5. ♂Mars in Sagittarius

   ♐ 23° Sagittarius 53'

   drive and anger

   They act boldly and want room to move while Charles is doing it, and their anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on their freedom. The tension is speaking bluntly in the heat of the moment and smoothing it over later. It shows up as walking away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.

6. ♃Jupiter in Libra

   ♎ 11° Libra 44' ℞

   growth and excess

   They grow through partnership and a genuine gift for bringing people together. The overreach is people-pleasing so broadly that they end up overcommitted to everyone's expectations at once. It shows up as being the connector whose introductions and events other people benefit from more than they realise.

7. ♄Saturn in Libra

   ♎ 2° Libra 12' ℞

   discipline and doubt

   They build discipline around relationships, often after early experiences that made fairness and commitment feel harder to trust than they should have been. The doubt shows up as overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. It shows up as becoming, with time, someone people rely on to negotiate and hold agreements fairly.

8. ♅Uranus in Pisces

   ♓ 12° Pisces 20'

   freedom, generational

   Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who transform spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries earlier generations kept firm. Personally, it can show up as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.

9. ♆Neptune in Leo

   ♌ 13° Leo 10' ℞

   imagination, generational

   Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. Personally, it can show up as a pull toward performance as a way of feeling real.

10. ♇Pluto in Cancer

    ♋ 8° Cancer 07'

    power, generational

    Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.

Aspects

How the planets in Charles Mingus's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

1. Moon conjunction Uranus

   0.6° separating

   Their emotional life is unpredictable and independent, and feelings tend to arrive suddenly rather than build gradually. This gives they real emotional freedom, and the edge is letting people close enough to see the pattern behind the surprises.

2. Jupiter sextile Neptune

   1.4° separating

   Their sense of possibility and their imagination cooperate gently, giving they acces to inspired ideas without losing their footing. This is soft, workable optimism, useful for keeping a project hopeful without letting it drift too far from what is real.

3. Sun conjunction Mercury

   2.2° applying

   Their sense of self and the way they think are fused, so their opinions feel like statements of who Charles is. They speak their mind readily, and separating a passing thought from their identity takes practice worth doing.

4. Jupiter square Pluto

   3.6° applying

   Their ambitions can turn into a struggle for control over outcomes that were never fully yours to control. The lesson is aiming that considerable drive at transformation rather than domination, which tends to produce a result that actually lasts.

• Uranus trine Pluto4.2°
• Moon trine Pluto4.8°
• Mercury trine Mars5.7°
• Saturn square Pluto5.9°
• Venus square Neptune6.7°
• Sun trine Mars8.0°