Miles Davis’s birth chart
Born 26 May 1926, in Alton, Illinois, at 05:00 (Rodden AA).
Gemini Sun · Scorpio Moon · Taurus rising
Miles Davis’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Miles Davis was born on Wednesday, 26 May 1926, in Alton, Illinois. The Sun was in Gemini, so Gemini was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Scorpio and Taurus rising. Miles died on 28 September 1991, aged 65. The birth time, 05:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
Water carries the most weight: five of the ten planets, against fire two, air two and earth one. Fixed signs hold five, mutable signs three and cardinal signs two. The tightest aspect is Saturn square Neptune, 0.2° from exact. Saturn was retrograde. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 26 May, among them John Wayne, Helena Bonham Carter and Lenny Kravitz. Wikidata links Miles with one person in the dataset: Cicely Tyson (married in 1981, marriage ended in 1988).
Miles Davis’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Gemini
4° Gemini 23'
A Gemini Sun connects. Ideas, people and conversations are its element, and Miles Davis probably learns by talking things through. This placement is happiest with two projects and a question nobody has answered yet.
Moon sign
Scorpio
20° Scorpio 54'
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Miles 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
Taurus
20° Taurus 36'
With Taurus rising, the first impression of Miles is calm, grounded and unhurried. People tend to relax around them and to assume that someone so settled is not going anywhere.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 05:00 on 26 May 1926, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 4° Gemini 23' | House 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 20° Scorpio 54' | House 7 |
| Mercury | 23° Taurus 26' | House 1 |
| Venus | 21° Aries 38' | House 12 |
| Mars | 16° Pisces 16' | House 11 |
| Jupiter | 26° Aquarius 28' | House 10 |
| Saturn | 21° Scorpio 53'℞ | House 7 |
| Uranus | 28° Pisces 48' | House 11 |
| Neptune | 22° Leo 08' | House 4 |
| Pluto | 13° Cancer 15' | House 3 |
| North Node | 17° Cancer 05' | House 3 |
| South Node | 17° Capricorn 05' | House 9 |
Miles Davis’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Miles Davis’s private life.
Sun in Gemini
4° Gemini 23' · first house
purpose and vitality
For Miles Davis, the Sun in Gemini means vitality that comes from variety, and purpose that feels most real when they are learning or explaining something new. What suffers is focus, with energy scattered across too many half-finished things at once. Several projects and three hobbies on the go at the same time would be in character.
The Sun in the first house puts Miles's identity centre stage, and being seen probably matters more to them than they let on. In a new setting they lead with personality and let people discover the rest later.
Moon in Scorpio
20° Scorpio 54' · seventh house
needs and habits
For Miles, 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.
With the Moon in the seventh house, Miles 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.
Mercury in Taurus
23° Taurus 26' · first house
mind and voice
With Mercury in Taurus, Miles is likely to think slowly and thoroughly, and a conclusion once reached is rarely revisited without good reason. The communication style is plain and practical rather than showy. A new idea that clashes with what they already believe may have to wait a while for a hearing.
Mercury in the first house belongs to someone who thinks out loud, and Miles's thoughts often arrive first in almost any conversation. A thought is usually spoken nearly as soon as it forms, sometimes before they have fully decided what they think.
Venus in Aries
21° Aries 38' · twelfth 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 Miles 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 twelfth house keeps affections private and sometimes idealised, and Miles 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 Pisces
16° Pisces 16' · eleventh house
drive and anger
With Mars in Pisces, Miles 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.
Mars in the eleventh house puts energy into friendships and causes, and Miles is often the one who gets a whole group moving. Friction in a group probably does not scare them off, and they would rather push through a disagreement than step around it.
Jupiter in Aquarius
26° Aquarius 28' · tenth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Miles may put so much trust in a theory or a group that its practical flaws are overlooked. Optimism about the future can make them a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
Jupiter in the tenth house is associated with generosity and fairness at work, and in Miles's chart it points to patience about letting a reputation build over time. The placement is also linked with optimism about working life and a readiness to take on more.
Saturn in Scorpio
21° Scorpio 53' ℞ · seventh house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Miles letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Saturn in the seventh house is associated with treating partnership as ongoing work and commitment as a serious matter, and in Miles's chart it points to caution about committing quickly. The placement goes with a wish to build a relationship slowly rather than enter one lightly.
Uranus in Pisces
28° Pisces 48' · eleventh house
freedom, generational
Miles has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Uranus in the eleventh house gathers an unusual, wide-ranging group of friends around Miles, who feels most alive contributing to causes that set out to change something. Belonging matters to them, but strictly on their own terms, and they resist any group that asks them to blend in.
Neptune in Leo
22° Leo 08' · fourth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Miles alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Miles is likely to be sensitive to the underlying mood of a household in ways that other people in the same room often miss. With Neptune in the fourth house, home can take on an idealised or slightly hazy quality, and the sense of family is apt to be more emotional than literal.
Pluto in Cancer
13° Cancer 15' · third house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Miles 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.
With Pluto in the third house, Miles's mind is drawn to what lies underneath a conversation, and they rarely settle for the tidy, surface version of an explanation. Words can be a way of exposing what other people would rather leave hidden, even when that makes things briefly uncomfortable.
Aspects in Miles Davis’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Saturn square Neptune
0.2° separating
Practical sense and idealism can pull against each other in this square, and for Miles Davis that may mean either an uninspired routine or a dream with no realistic plan behind it. The way through is to build the structure and protect the dream at the same time, without sacrificing one for the other.
Venus trine Neptune
0.5° applying
Miles is likely to love with a romantic, artistic quality that comes naturally, because affection and imagination flow together under this trine. Compassion and creativity arrive easily, and the people nearby tend to feel cared for as a result.
Moon conjunction Saturn
1.0° applying
The Moon conjunct Saturn describes an emotional life that is serious and self-contained, as though feelings were something to be managed without much outside help. It tends to make Miles steady under pressure, and what takes practice is letting themselves be comforted rather than always being the one holding things together.
Moon square Neptune
1.2° applying
Emotional needs can get lost in a fog of other people's moods, or of an idealised version of how things should feel, when the Moon is square Neptune. The work for Miles is checking in with themselves often enough to keep their own feelings in focus.
Mercury square Neptune
1.3° separating
Wishful assumptions, or a compelling but unverified story, can blur thinking when Mercury is square Neptune. What helps Miles is pairing imagination with a habit of checking the details before repeating the story as though it were settled fact.
Mercury opposition Saturn
1.6° separating
Under Mercury opposite Saturn, a doubt can creep into Miles's thinking about whether it is good enough to share. Speaking the imperfect version out loud matters more than waiting for the polished one.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Moon opposition Mercury2.5°
- Mars trine Pluto3.0°
- Mercury square Jupiter3.0°
- Jupiter opposition Neptune4.3°
- Jupiter square Saturn4.6°
- Moon trine Mars4.6°
- Venus sextile Jupiter4.8°
- Moon square Jupiter5.6°
- Sun sextile Uranus5.6°
- Mars trine Saturn5.6°
- Saturn trine Uranus6.9°
- Moon trine Pluto7.7°
- Moon trine Uranus7.9°
- Sun square Jupiter7.9°
Miles Davis in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Gemini Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Miles Davis
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How this page is made
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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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