Johnny Cash’s birth chart
Born 26 February 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, at 07:30 (Rodden A).
Pisces Sun · Scorpio Moon · Pisces rising
Johnny Cash’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
26 February 1932 was a Friday: the day Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas. Their zodiac sign was Pisces, with the Moon in Scorpio and Pisces rising. Johnny died on 12 September 2003, aged 71. The birth time, 07:30, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of A, which means it was given from memory by the person or someone close to them.
By element the count is five water, three fire, one earth and one air. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, three and four. Three planets stand together in Pisces: Sun, Mercury and Mars. Closest of the aspects is the opposition between Sun and Neptune, 0.1° from exact. Three planets were retrograde: Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 26 February, among them Michel Houellebecq, Pepe and Emmanuel Adebayor. Wikidata links Johnny with one person in the dataset: June Carter Cash (married in 1968, marriage ended in 2003).
Johnny Cash’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
6° Pisces 45'
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Johnny Cash the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Scorpio
7° Scorpio 57'
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Johnny that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Rising sign
Pisces
22° Pisces 56'
With Pisces rising, the first impression is gentle, dreamy and receptive. People are inclined to tell Johnny things they have told no one, and the mood of this rising sign shifts with the room.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 07:30 on 26 February 1932, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 6° Pisces 45' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 7° Scorpio 57' | House 8 |
| Mercury | 6° Pisces 28' | House 12 |
| Venus | 16° Aries 31' | House 1 |
| Mars | 1° Pisces 08' | House 12 |
| Jupiter | 15° Leo 14'℞ | House 5 |
| Saturn | 0° Aquarius 15' | House 11 |
| Uranus | 17° Aries 02' | House 1 |
| Neptune | 6° Virgo 36'℞ | House 6 |
| Pluto | 20° Cancer 13'℞ | House 5 |
| North Node | 26° Pisces 16' | House 1 |
| South Node | 26° Virgo 16' | House 7 |
Johnny Cash’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Johnny Cash’s private life.
Sun in Pisces
6° Pisces 45' · twelfth house
purpose and vitality
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Johnny Cash's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Johnny'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.
Moon in Scorpio
7° Scorpio 57' · eighth house
needs and habits
For Johnny, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
Johnny probably feels things at a depth other people sometimes miss, and the Moon in the eighth house wants tested trust before anyone is allowed to see that undercurrent. When the guard does come down with someone, the bond is apt to change for good.
Mercury in Pisces
6° Pisces 28' · twelfth house
mind and voice
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Johnny is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.
In Johnny'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. Johnny may understand something by intuition well before they can explain, even to themselves, how they got there.
Venus in Aries
16° Aries 31' · first house
love and values
Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For Johnny that suggests an interest that can fade once the chase is over. The pattern is to fall fast and to need a relationship to keep feeling like a choice, not a routine.
Venus in the first house is associated with warmth and charm in a person's manner, and Johnny is likely to come across as easy to like before much else is known. Personal style, whatever form it takes, is part of the appeal with this placement and not an accessory to it.
Mars in Pisces
1° Pisces 08' · twelfth house
drive and anger
With Mars in Pisces, Johnny is likely to act indirectly, often through avoidance or quiet withdrawal rather than confrontation, and anger can turn into sadness before it has even been named as anger. The habit is to absorb conflict rather than address it. Often they need to leave a tense room before they can work out what they feel.
Johnny probably lets go of tension through something active and solitary, away from an audience. Mars in the twelfth house puts drive to work behind the scenes, and frustration that is hard to name can build up when it has no private, physical outlet.
Jupiter in Leo
15° Leo 14' ℞ · fifth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Johnny the overreach may be overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. There is a natural showmanship here that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
Jupiter in the fifth house brings a sense of plenty to Johnny's creativity, romance and play, and the placement enjoys these parts of life fully, without holding back. Johnny is likely to be at their most generous and most confident around the things they love doing.
Saturn in Aquarius
0° Aquarius 15' · eleventh house
discipline and doubt
With Saturn in Aquarius, Johnny's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.
With Saturn in the eleventh house, Johnny may keep a smaller circle of friends, but holds on to those friends with loyalty over many years and without much fuss. Belonging to a group is likely to take longer to feel secure, and to be valued all the more for that.
Uranus in Aries
17° Aries 02' · first house
freedom, generational
Uranus spends about seven years in each sign, so Johnny shares Uranus in Aries with many people of a similar age. It marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. In one life it can appear as impatience with the slow-moving institutions older generations built.
With Uranus in the first house, Johnny is likely to come across as unconventional and hard to define, even by their own account, with labels fitting loosely at best. The placement goes with a presence that shifts the energy of a room by being unpredictable in a way people cannot quite place.
Neptune in Virgo
6° Virgo 36' ℞ · sixth house
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Johnny shares its place in Virgo with people born years either side. The imagination of this generation turns towards service, craft and idealised routines of self-improvement. In one life it can mean chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
With Neptune in the sixth house, a daily routine works best when it includes something restful or quietly meaningful, and rigid, uninspired work wearies Johnny in a way that is hard to explain. Being of service to someone often feeds Johnny more than the task itself does.
Pluto in Cancer
20° Cancer 13' ℞ · fifth house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Johnny to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Pluto in the fifth house makes romance and creativity all-or-nothing, and Johnny is inclined to love and create with total, visible commitment rather than half measures. Someone with Pluto here holds on to what they make and who they love, once they have decided, completely and for a long time.
Aspects in Johnny Cash’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Sun opposition Neptune
0.1° separating
For Johnny Cash, a clear, grounded sense of self sits on one side, and on the other a habit of idealising people or situations past what they can deliver. With this aspect, holding compassion and clear sight together resolves more than choosing one over the other.
Mercury opposition Neptune
0.1° applying
Under Mercury opposite Neptune, clear thinking competes with the lure of an appealing story or a hopeful assumption. Checking conclusions against plain evidence keeps Johnny on firm ground, without asking them to give up the imagination that makes their thinking interesting in the first place.
Sun conjunction Mercury
0.3° applying
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Johnny'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.
Venus conjunction Uranus
0.5° applying
Affection runs independent and a little unpredictable with Venus conjunct Uranus, and Johnny is likely to be drawn to people and situations that keep them interested more than settled. There is romantic excitement in that. The difficulty is letting closeness deepen without the urge to bolt from it.
Sun trine Moon
1.2° separating
With a Sun-Moon trine, purpose and emotional needs back each other up with very little effort. Johnny is likely to know what they want and to feel good pursuing it, which gives them an unusual, steady confidence that other people can sense.
Venus trine Jupiter
1.3° separating
Affection and a sense of plenty reinforce each other in Johnny's chart, and the result is a warm, easy generosity in relationships. With this trine, goodwill in love and friendship tends to be given freely and returned in kind, without much forcing on either side.
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.
- Moon sextile Neptune1.3°
- Moon trine Mercury1.5°
- Jupiter trine Uranus1.8°
- Uranus square Pluto3.2°
- Venus square Pluto3.7°
- Mercury conjunction Mars5.3°
- Mars opposition Neptune5.5°
- Sun conjunction Mars5.6°
- Moon trine Mars6.8°
- Moon square Jupiter7.3°
- Moon square Saturn7.7°
Johnny Cash in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Pisces Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Johnny Cash
Also born on 26 February
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 (From memory). Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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