Muddy Waters’s birth chart
Born 4 April 1913, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Aries Sun · Pisces Moon
Muddy Waters’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Muddy Waters was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on 4 April 1913, a Friday. Their zodiac sign was Aries, with the Moon in Pisces. They died on 30 April 1983, aged 70. No verified birth time is on file for them; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
Of the ten planets, three are in air signs, three in water, two in fire and two in earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, two and four. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mercury and Saturn: a sextile, about 0.3° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Mercury and Venus were retrograde. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 4 April, among them Maya Angelou, Robert Downey Jr. and Heath Ledger.
See the sky the day Muddy Waters was born: the stars over Rolling Fork, Mississippi, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Muddy Waters’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aries
about 14° Aries at midday
An Aries Sun starts things. For Muddy Waters that points to energy that is direct and impatient with delay, and to feeling most like themselves when there is something to go first at. The work of this placement is finishing what the spark began.
Moon sign
Pisces
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
With the Moon in Pisces, Muddy Waters may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Rolling Fork, Mississippi, at each hour of the day.
Muddy Waters’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Muddy Waters yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 4 April 1913, computed for Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:20 | Sagittarius rising |
| 00:20 to 02:20 | Capricorn rising |
| 02:20 to 03:55 | Aquarius rising |
| 03:55 to 05:15 | Pisces rising |
| 05:15 to 06:35 | Aries rising |
| 06:35 to 08:10 | Taurus rising |
| 08:10 to 10:10 | Gemini rising |
| 10:10 to 12:30 | Cancer rising |
| 12:30 to 14:50 | Leo rising |
| 14:50 to 17:15 | Virgo rising |
| 17:15 to 19:35 | Libra rising |
| 19:35 to 22:00 | Scorpio rising |
| 22:00 to 24:00 | Sagittarius rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 4 April 1913, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 14° Aries 21' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Pisces |
| Mercury | 1° Aries 11'℞ |
| Venus | 12° Taurus 28'℞ |
| Mars | 4° Pisces 15' |
| Jupiter | 16° Capricorn 21' |
| Saturn | 0° Gemini 54' |
| Uranus | 6° Aquarius 57' |
| Neptune | 23° Cancer 12' |
| Pluto | 28° Gemini 06' |
| North Node | 3° Aries 09' |
| South Node | 3° Libra 09' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Muddy Waters’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Muddy Waters’s private life.
With the Sun in Aries, Muddy Waters's sense of purpose tends to come alive when there is a clear start line. They probably feel most like themselves pushing into something new, though that energy can burn hot and fade before the finish. The typical pattern is a project launched with excitement, then handed off once the routine sets in.
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Muddy Waters more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
Mercury in Aries suggests that Muddy Waters thinks in quick, decisive strokes and says what they mean without much preamble. Sometimes the words arrive before the thought is fully formed, which can come across sharper than intended. It is a mind that finishes other people's sentences and prefers a fast decision to a long meeting.
Venus in Taurus loves steadily and shows it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures, and in Muddy Waters's chart it is likely to value loyalty and things built to last. Because change feels like loss, this Venus can hold on to a relationship past its natural end. Months in, people with this placement tend to remember exactly how someone takes their coffee.
With Mars in Pisces, Muddy Waters 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.
Jupiter in Capricorn
16° Capricorn 21' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Muddy Waters would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.
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 Muddy Waters 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.
Uranus in Aquarius
6° Aquarius 57' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Muddy Waters's birth have it too. The generation is defined by rapid technological and social change within a single lifetime. One person's share of it is an unusually easy relationship with disruption and reinvention.
Neptune in Cancer
23° Cancer 12' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Muddy Waters and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Pluto in Gemini
28° Gemini 06' at midday
power, generational
Muddy Waters shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects in Muddy Waters’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mercury sextile Saturn
about 0.3° at midday
Turning a loose idea into something solid is easier with Mercury sextile Saturn, because Muddy Waters's thinking and sense of structure work together. The clarity is quiet and practical, and it shows most when a plan has to work.
Sun square Jupiter
about 2.0° at midday
Ambition can outpace what time and energy will realistically support, and with this aspect Muddy Waters may promise more than can be delivered and then walk it back. The lesson of a Sun-Jupiter square is scaling a good instinct to a size that holds.
Mercury square Pluto
about 3.1° at midday
A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as Muddy Waters looks for motives that may not be there. The lesson is trusting a straightforward answer when the evidence supports one, rather than assuming the deeper explanation is always the true one.
Mars square Saturn
about 3.4° at midday
Muddy Waters's drive can meet resistance, from outside obstacles or from private doubt, and frustration builds when progress feels blocked. Under this square, every stretch of steady work done anyway turns that resistance into competence, the kind that is there when it is needed most.
Venus trine Jupiter
about 3.9° at midday
Affection and a sense of plenty reinforce each other in Muddy Waters'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.
Venus square Uranus
about 5.5° at midday
In Muddy Waters's chart the desire for closeness and the need for freedom can work against each other, and this square is known for sudden shifts in an otherwise good relationship. The remedy is to build enough independence into the relationship that none has to be created by pulling away.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Saturn trine Uranusabout 6.1°
- Mars trine Plutoabout 6.2°
- Jupiter opposition Neptuneabout 6.8°
Aries Sun and Pisces Moon, like Muddy Waters
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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; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their 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. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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