Janis Joplin’s birth chart
Born 19 January 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas, at 09:45 (Rodden AA).
Capricorn Sun · Cancer Moon · Aquarius rising
Janis Joplin’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on 19 January 1943, a Tuesday. The Sun was in Capricorn, so Capricorn was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Cancer and Aquarius rising. Janis died on 4 October 1970, aged 27. The birth time, 09:45, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
By element the count is five air, two fire, two water and one earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, three and three. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Saturn and Pluto, 0.4° from exact. Six planets were retrograde: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 12 other people born on 19 January, among them Dolly Parton, Claudio Marchisio and Logan Lerman.
See the sky the night Janis was born: the stars over Port Arthur, Texas at 09:45, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Janis Joplin’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
28° Capricorn 39'
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Janis Joplin up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Cancer
8° Cancer 48'
The Moon is at home in Cancer. For Janis that points to feelings that are tidal, strong and closely tied to the people they love, and to a memory for how everything felt. This Moon is restored by home, by cooking, and by being needed.
Rising sign
Aquarius
25° Aquarius 32'
With Aquarius rising, Janis tends to come across as friendly, unusual and slightly detached. People remember an Aquarius rising as the one who thought differently, and who kept the crowd at arm's length while liking it.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 09:45 on 19 January 1943, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 28° Capricorn 39' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 8° Cancer 48' | House 5 |
| Mercury | 9° Aquarius 28'℞ | House 12 |
| Venus | 14° Aquarius 02' | House 12 |
| Mars | 24° Sagittarius 48' | House 10 |
| Jupiter | 19° Cancer 05'℞ | House 5 |
| Saturn | 5° Gemini 52'℞ | House 3 |
| Uranus | 0° Gemini 44'℞ | House 3 |
| Neptune | 1° Libra 59'℞ | House 7 |
| Pluto | 6° Leo 16'℞ | House 6 |
| North Node | 25° Leo 07' | House 6 |
| South Node | 25° Aquarius 07' | House 12 |
Janis Joplin’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Janis Joplin’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Janis Joplin is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Janis's identity may be quieter and more private than it looks from the outside, and solitude is probably where they recharge the parts of themselves that rarely get seen. The Sun here treats rest as the fuel the rest of life runs on, not as wasted time.
With the Moon in Cancer, Janis's needs tend to be tied to home, routine and the people they check in on daily. Small rituals are steadying: a particular meal, a particular chair. The tension is reading other people's moods so closely that those moods can be taken on without noticing.
The Moon in the fifth house can let Janis's feelings out most freely through creativity, romance and play, and without an outlet somewhere those feelings may quietly build up. Play is probably part of how Janis keeps their balance, not a luxury to be skipped for long.
In Janis's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
In Janis's chart, Mercury in the twelfth house suggests a mind that works in the background, turning things over long before any conclusion rises to the surface. Janis may understand something by intuition well before they can explain, even to themselves, how they got there.
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Janis may keep just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach, even to them. This Venus can prize a partner's individuality more than the intimacy between them.
Venus in the twelfth house keeps affections private and sometimes idealised, and Janis may feel more deeply than they show to most people. The placement values quiet acts of devotion, done without an audience, over public displays or grand romantic gestures.
Mars in Sagittarius acts boldly and wants room to move while doing it, and its anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on freedom. Janis may speak bluntly in the heat of the moment and smooth it over later. Given the choice, this placement walks away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
Mars in the tenth house makes ambition the driving force, and Janis is apt to push hard towards a public goal once their sights are set on it. Competition at work sharpens their focus where it might intimidate someone else, and a proper challenge can bring out Janis's best effort.
Jupiter in Cancer
19° Cancer 05' ℞ · fifth house
growth and excess
For Janis, Jupiter in Cancer means growing by nurturing others and building a home that people want to return to. The excess can be protecting loved ones past the point they need it. Generosity here takes the form of home-cooked meals, open doors and an instinct to take in anyone who needs somewhere to land.
Jupiter in the fifth house brings a sense of plenty to Janis's creativity, romance and play, and the placement enjoys these parts of life fully, without holding back. Janis is likely to be at their most generous and most confident around the things they love doing.
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Janis that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
In Janis's chart, Saturn sits in the third house, a placement associated with caution in speech: a sense of being unheard or over-careful with words, and a freedom to speak up that comes with deliberate practice. What they say often carries weight, because they choose their words with care.
Uranus in Gemini
0° Gemini 44' ℞ · third house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by Janis and many people born in the same few years. These are people who come of age alongside a revolution in communication, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. The personal version is a restless need for new information.
Uranus in the third house works in sudden leaps rather than tidy steps, and Janis often says the thing nobody expected, in exactly the way nobody expected. New ideas excite them far more than familiar ones, and hearing the same thought twice bores them fast.
Neptune in Libra
1° Libra 59' ℞ · seventh house
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Janis among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
Neptune in the seventh house can lead Janis to idealise a partner, blurring the line between the person who is there and the one who was hoped for. Disappointment can follow when reality does not match the dream, though compassion is apt to stay at the heart of how Janis loves.
Pluto in Leo
6° Leo 16' ℞ · sixth house
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Janis, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Daily work gets Janis's full intensity, and a role or a routine is often transformed completely once they commit themselves to it. With Pluto in the sixth house, a job is hard to do by halves, so rest may be something Janis has to choose on purpose.
Aspects in Janis Joplin’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Saturn sextile Pluto
0.4° separating
No crisis is needed to bring out Janis Joplin's resilience, because discipline and depth are on working terms in this sextile. Long, steady effort tends to be rewarded in ways that build quietly over time, not all at once.
Sun trine Uranus
2.1° applying
Being original feels easy rather than effortful with this aspect, because Janis's sense of self and need for freedom sit comfortably together. They are likely to gravitate towards places that let them be exactly who they are without much friction.
Mercury opposition Pluto
3.2° applying
With Mercury opposite Pluto, other people's attempts to control the story can collide with Janis's own conclusions and turn a disagreement into a deeper power struggle. Staying with the argument itself, rather than the fight for control, resolves more.
Sun trine Neptune
3.3° applying
Janis's identity and imagination flow together easily, giving them an intuitive, artistic quality that feels natural rather than performed. With the Sun trine Neptune, compassion comes without much effort, and other people often sense it before a word has been said.
Mercury trine Saturn
3.6° applying
Janis's thinking has discipline behind it, which gives them a clear, methodical way of working through ideas. With Mercury trine Saturn, conclusions can be trusted because they have usually been tested already, often more thoroughly than anyone nearby realises.
Saturn trine Neptune
3.9° applying
With Saturn trine Neptune, Janis's discipline and imagination steady each other, which makes it possible to build something both beautiful and structurally sound. Vision and follow-through tend to arrive together, a combination that is rare and worth trusting.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus trine Neptune1.3°
- Neptune sextile Pluto4.3°
- Mercury conjunction Venus4.6°
- Saturn conjunction Uranus5.1°
- Moon square Neptune6.8°
- Sun trine Saturn7.2°
- Sun opposition Pluto7.6°
- Venus opposition Pluto7.8°
Capricorn Sun and Cancer Moon, like Janis Joplin
Also born on 19 January
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (BC/BR in hand). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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