Jimi Hendrix’s birth chart
Born 27 November 1942, in Seattle, Washington, at 10:15 (Rodden AA).
Sagittarius Sun · Cancer Moon · Sagittarius rising
Jimi Hendrix’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
27 November 1942 was a Friday: the day Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington. Their zodiac sign was Sagittarius, with the Moon in Cancer and Sagittarius rising. Jimi died on 18 September 1970, aged 27. The birth time, 10:15, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
Fire carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against air three, water three and earth none. Mutable signs hold five, cardinal signs three and fixed signs two. Three planets stand together in Sagittarius: Sun, Mercury and Venus. Closest of the aspects is the trine between Venus and Pluto, 0.4° from exact. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 27 November, among them Bruce Lee, Yulia Tymoshenko and Kathryn Bigelow.
See the sky the night Jimi was born: the stars over Seattle, Washington at 10:15, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Jimi Hendrix’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
4° Sagittarius 50'
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Jimi Hendrix forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon sign
Cancer
28° Cancer 04'
The Moon is at home in Cancer. For Jimi 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
Sagittarius
24° Sagittarius 40'
With Sagittarius rising, Jimi probably comes across as open, frank and optimistic. Around a Sagittarius rising, people feel that anything might happen, and this is often the one who says the thing everyone was thinking.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 10:15 on 27 November 1942, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 4° Sagittarius 50' | House 11 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 28° Cancer 04' | House 7 |
| Mercury | 2° Sagittarius 56' | House 11 |
| Venus | 7° Sagittarius 35' | House 12 |
| Mars | 17° Scorpio 31' | House 10 |
| Jupiter | 24° Cancer 51'℞ | House 7 |
| Saturn | 9° Gemini 22'℞ | House 6 |
| Uranus | 2° Gemini 28'℞ | House 5 |
| Neptune | 1° Libra 40' | House 9 |
| Pluto | 7° Leo 10'℞ | House 8 |
| North Node | 28° Leo 43' | House 8 |
| South Node | 28° Aquarius 43' | House 2 |
Jimi Hendrix’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Jimi Hendrix’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Jimi Hendrix's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
The Sun in the eleventh house means Jimi finds themselves through friendships and the causes they throw their weight behind, more than through solitary achievement. Jimi is at their best inside a group with a shared purpose, and being cut off from that kind of company can dim their spark.
With the Moon in Cancer, Jimi'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.
With the Moon in the seventh house, Jimi is likely to feel most themselves inside a close partnership, reading the emotional temperature of a relationship constantly and by instinct. Too long alone can leave them unmoored, even when nothing is wrong.
Jimi's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
Mercury in the eleventh house means Jimi thinks in terms of the whole group, coming up with ideas for the causes and communities they care about rather than only for themselves. Brainstorming with friends, informally and without pressure, is probably where much of Jimi's best thinking happens.
Venus in Sagittarius loves with enthusiasm and a need for shared adventure, and Jimi probably values a partner who gives them room to roam. When things get serious, this placement can confuse freedom with distance. The pattern with this Venus is to plan the next trip together before settling into the current one.
Venus in the twelfth house keeps affections private and sometimes idealised, and Jimi 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.
In Jimi's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
Mars in the tenth house makes ambition the driving force, and Jimi 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 Jimi's best effort.
Jupiter in Cancer
24° Cancer 51' ℞ · seventh house
growth and excess
For Jimi, 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.
With Jupiter in the seventh house, Jimi is apt to find that their relationships broaden their world, often through new people, places or ideas that a trusted partner brings. Generosity can flow easily in both directions with the people close to them, rarely forced or measured out.
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 Jimi 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.
With Saturn in the sixth house, Jimi takes daily responsibilities seriously, sometimes to the point of being harder on themselves than the job requires. Saturn here keeps up a discipline over years, long after others would have let it slip.
Uranus in Gemini
2° Gemini 28' ℞ · fifth house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by Jimi 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 fifth house gives creativity and romance a spark of the unexpected, and a predictable routine in either is apt to leave Jimi restless. The people and projects that appeal with this placement tend to be the ones that surprise, not the ones that confirm what is already known.
Neptune in Libra
1° Libra 40' · ninth house
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Jimi 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.
With Neptune in the ninth house, Jimi may be drawn to big questions about meaning, and travel can feel like a search for something beyond the practical reason for the trip. The placement is associated with ideals that are felt more than argued, and held quietly and steadily.
Pluto in Leo
7° Leo 10' ℞ · eighth 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 Jimi, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
The eighth house is Pluto's natural home, and for Jimi questions of trust, power and what is truly shared between people can matter enormously. Pluto here wants to understand what most people are too afraid to look at directly, even about themselves.
Aspects in Jimi Hendrix’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus trine Pluto
0.4° separating
With Venus trine Pluto, affection and the capacity for change tend to strengthen each other in Jimi Hendrix's chart, the kind of pairing that gives relationships staying power through hard times. Depth can arrive here without constant upheaval, and that is rarer, and more durable, than the intensity some people mistake for closeness.
Mercury opposition Uranus
0.5° separating
With Mercury opposite Uranus, Jimi's unconventional ideas meet other people's fixed positions, which can turn a good insight into an unnecessary standoff. Presenting the idea as an option rather than a challenge tends to land better.
Mercury sextile Neptune
1.3° separating
Jimi's thinking and imagination cooperate gently, so creative and intuitive ideas are within easy reach. The inventiveness is soft and pleasant rather than analytical, useful for easing a difficult conversation without losing the point of it.
Venus opposition Saturn
1.8° applying
The pull in this aspect is between wanting closeness and a wariness that keeps testing whether it will last. For Jimi, letting someone prove themselves gradually, instead of doubting them from the outset, tends to build security sooner than suspicion does.
Sun conjunction Mercury
1.9° applying
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Jimi's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
Saturn sextile Pluto
2.2° applying
No crisis is needed to bring out Jimi'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.
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 Neptune0.8°
- Sun trine Pluto2.3°
- Sun opposition Uranus2.4°
- Sun conjunction Venus2.8°
- Sun sextile Neptune3.2°
- Moon conjunction Jupiter3.2°
- Moon sextile Neptune3.6°
- Mercury trine Pluto4.2°
- Moon sextile Uranus4.4°
- Sun opposition Saturn4.5°
- Mercury conjunction Venus4.7°
- Uranus sextile Pluto4.7°
- Moon trine Mercury4.9°
- Venus opposition Uranus5.1°
- Mercury opposition Saturn6.4°
- Sun trine Moon6.8°
- Saturn conjunction Uranus6.9°
Sagittarius Sun and Cancer Moon, like Jimi Hendrix
Also born on 27 November
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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