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Sammy Davis Jr.’s birth chart
Born December 8, 1925 in New York City, birth time not public.
Sagittarius Sun · Virgo Moon · Fire · Mutable
Sun
♐Sagittarius
16° Sagittarius 06'
You seek. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture pull you forward, and your honesty is a kind of generosity. The lesson of a Sagittarius Sun is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon
♍Virgo
18° Virgo 19'
You feel by fixing. When something is wrong you look for the practical cause, and you calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. Let people help you without a to-do list attached.
Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.
Rising
Sammy Davis Jr.’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♐ 16° Sagittarius 06' | |
| ☽ | Moon | ♍ 18° Virgo 19' | |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♐ 23° Sagittarius 02'℞ | |
| ♀ | Venus | ♒ 2° Aquarius 54' | |
| ♂ | Mars | ♏ 16° Scorpio 50' | |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♑ 23° Capricorn 41' | |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♏ 20° Scorpio 23' | |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♓ 21° Pisces 34' | |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♌ 24° Leo 45'℞ | |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♋ 14° Cancer 12'℞ | |
| ☊ | North Node | ♋ 26° Cancer 17' | |
| ☋ | South Node | ♑ 26° Capricorn 17' |
Sammy Davis Jr.'s full reading
Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Sagittarius
♐ 16° Sagittarius 06'
purpose and vitality
Purpose for they i tied to growth, travel and ideas bigger than their daily life, and their energy lifts the moment there is somewhere new to go. The tension is losing interest once a thing becomes familiar. It shows up as the restlessness that sets in a few months into any routine, however good it is.
☽Moon in Virgo
♍ 18° Virgo 19'
needs and habits
Their habits run toward order, and a messy space or an unfinished list unsettles their mood more than most people would guess. Sammy is calmed by small, useful tasks. The tension is turning self-care into another chore to get right instead of something they actually enjoy.
☿Mercury in Sagittarius
♐ 23° Sagittarius 02' ℞
mind and voice
They think in big, connective leaps and communicate with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The tension is generalising past what the details actually support. It shows up as answering a specific question with a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
♀Venus in Aquarius
♒ 2° Aquarius 54'
love and values
They love as a friend first, and they value independence, shared ideas and a partner who does not crowd they. The tension is keeping just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach even to they. It shows up as valuing a partner's individuality sometimes more than the intimacy between they.
♂Mars in Scorpio
♏ 16° Scorpio 50'
drive and anger
They act with focus and intensity, and their anger, when it surfaces, is controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The tension is holding onto a grievance well past its useful life. It shows up as a calm exterior that gives little warning before a genuinely sharp response.
♃Jupiter in Capricorn
♑ 23° Capricorn 41'
growth and excess
They grow through long-term discipline, and their gains tend to arrive later than they would like but tend to hold once they do. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. It shows up as a slow, earned authority that people trust more the longer they know they.
♄Saturn in Scorpio
♏ 20° Scorpio 23'
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around trust and control, often shaped by an early loss of something they could not get back. The doubt shows up as bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given they no real reason to. It shows up as an eventual, hard-earned comfort with vulnerability that most people around they never see they struggle for.
♅Uranus in Pisces
♓ 21° Pisces 34'
freedom, generational
Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who transform spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries earlier generations kept firm. Personally, it can show up as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
♆Neptune in Leo
♌ 24° Leo 45' ℞
imagination, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. Personally, it can show up as a pull toward performance as a way of feeling real.
♇Pluto in Cancer
♋ 14° Cancer 12' ℞
power, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects
How the planets in Sammy Davis Jr.'s chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Saturn trine Uranus
1.2° applying
Their discipline and their independence support each other, letting they build lasting structures that still leave room for genuine change. Consistency and originality coexist for they with real ease, more comfortably than the usual trade-off between the two would suggest.
Mercury square Uranus
1.5° applying
Their thinking can jump so quickly that other people struggle to follow, or they dismis a slower approach that actually had merit. The lesson is pacing a genuinely good idea so it can actually be used.
Moon sextile Mars
1.5° separating
Their feelings and their drive cooperate, making it easier to act on an emotional instinct without much overthinking. This is a useful, everyday kind of emotional courage that shows up most in the small moments nobody else notices.
Mercury trine Neptune
1.7° separating
Their thinking and their imagination work together with real ease, giving they a natural gift for metaphor, storytelling and intuitive leaps. Communicating something hard to put into words comes easily to they, in a way that other people often find genuinely memorable.
- Moon sextile Saturn2.1°
- Jupiter sextile Uranus2.1°
- Sun square Moon2.2°
- Mars trine Pluto2.6°
- Moon opposition Uranus3.2°
- Jupiter sextile Saturn3.3°
- Mars conjunction Saturn3.5°
- Moon sextile Pluto4.1°
- Saturn square Neptune4.4°
- Moon square Mercury4.7°
- Mars trine Uranus4.7°
- Moon trine Jupiter5.4°
- Sun square Uranus5.5°
- Saturn trine Pluto6.2°
- Sun conjunction Mercury6.9°
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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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