Sidney Poitier’s birth chart
Born 20 February 1927, in Miami, Florida, at 21:00 (Rodden A).
Pisces Sun · Libra Moon · Libra rising
Sidney Poitier’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Sidney Poitier was born on Sunday, 20 February 1927, in Miami, Florida. The Sun was in Pisces, so Pisces was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Libra and Libra rising. Sidney died on 6 January 2022, aged 94. The birth time, 21:00, 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.
Water carries the most weight: six of the ten planets, against fire two, earth one and air one. Mutable signs hold six, cardinal signs two and fixed signs two. Five planets stand together in Pisces: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus. Closest of the aspects is the square between Jupiter and Saturn, 0.7° from exact. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 22 other people born on 20 February, among them Rihanna, Kurt Cobain and Joao Grimaldo. Hubert de Givenchy was born on the very same day.
Sidney Poitier’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
1° Pisces 26'
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Sidney Poitier the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Libra
19° Libra 31'
A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Sidney, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.
Rising sign
Libra
8° Libra 49'
With Libra rising, the first impression Sidney gives is graceful, fair and easy to like. People tend to feel considered in Sidney's company, and a Libra rising is often the one asked to settle a disagreement.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 21:00 on 20 February 1927, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 1° Pisces 26' | House 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 19° Libra 31' | House 1 |
| Mercury | 18° Pisces 28' | House 6 |
| Venus | 23° Pisces 13' | House 6 |
| Mars | 29° Taurus 30' | House 8 |
| Jupiter | 7° Pisces 50' | House 5 |
| Saturn | 7° Sagittarius 08' | House 2 |
| Uranus | 27° Pisces 50' | House 6 |
| Neptune | 25° Leo 27'℞ | House 11 |
| Pluto | 14° Cancer 01'℞ | House 10 |
| North Node | 5° Cancer 21' | House 9 |
| South Node | 5° Capricorn 21' | House 3 |
Sidney Poitier’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Sidney Poitier’s private life.
Sun in Pisces
1° Pisces 26' · fifth house
purpose and vitality
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Sidney Poitier'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 fifth house, self-expression, romance and creative play are probably where Sidney feels most alive, and holding that side back tends to leave them flat. The placement asks for a stage of some kind, even a small and informal one, or that natural warmth has nowhere to go.
Moon in Libra
19° Libra 31' · first house
needs and habits
A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Sidney's whole afternoon. Comfort comes from pleasant company and pleasant spaces. The habit to watch is smoothing things over before they have worked out what they want.
The Moon in the first house tends to make Sidney's moods visible almost immediately, so that how they feel colours how they come across before a single word has been said. Other people are apt to read that emotional weather quickly, sometimes before it has been named.
Mercury in Pisces
18° Pisces 28' · sixth house
mind and voice
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Sidney 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.
Sidney thinks in systems and checklists, and in how to make an everyday process work a little better than it did before. With Mercury in the sixth house, analysing the small details of a routine is satisfying in itself, not a chore they merely put up with.
Venus in Pisces
23° Pisces 13' · sixth house
love and values
Venus in Pisces loves without much guard, and Sidney probably values emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The temptation can be to idealise a partner before really seeing them. Generosity in relationships comes easily here, and so does missing the moment when giving starts to outweigh getting.
In Sidney's chart, Venus in the sixth house lends grace to the working day, and ordinary tasks often become more pleasant for the people alongside them. A harmonious workplace probably matters more than an impressive one, and tension there can wear on Sidney faster than the workload does.
Mars in Taurus
29° Taurus 30' · eighth house
drive and anger
Mars in Taurus acts deliberately and sticks with a course once chosen, and its anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. At times Sidney may dig in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It takes real provocation to make this Mars snap, and the rattled feeling tends to last a while afterwards.
Mars in the eighth house suggests close bonds with some heat in them, and Sidney may find the harder conversations about trust, power and vulnerability less daunting than most. With Mars here, a difficult truth is apt to be faced head-on, not stepped around.
Jupiter in Pisces
7° Pisces 50' · fifth house
growth and excess
For Sidney, Jupiter in Pisces means finding growth in compassion, imagination and a willingness to trust things that cannot be fully explained. The overreach is an idealism about people or situations that the facts do not quite support. Others lean on this generosity of spirit more than they let on.
Jupiter in the fifth house brings a sense of plenty to Sidney's creativity, romance and play, and the placement enjoys these parts of life fully, without holding back. Sidney is likely to be at their most generous and most confident around the things they love doing.
Saturn in Sagittarius
7° Sagittarius 08' · second house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Sagittarius builds discipline around belief and meaning, testing a big idea hard before committing to it. In front of people who might challenge a conviction, Sidney is likely to hedge. Over time, someone with this Saturn often becomes a credible voice on the very questions they once felt they had no right to answer.
With Saturn in the second house, Sidney takes what they own and what they value seriously, and a person with this placement can be more anxious about having enough than the situation calls for. Security, for them, comes from building something slowly and seeing exactly what it rests on.
Uranus in Pisces
27° Pisces 50' · sixth house
freedom, generational
Sidney 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.
With Uranus in the sixth house, Sidney is often the inventive one at work, finding shortcuts or better systems that other people miss. A rigid, unchanging routine is apt to wear on Sidney faster than on most, however sensible it looks.
Neptune in Leo
25° Leo 27' ℞ · eleventh house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Sidney 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.
Friendships and causes with an idealistic edge draw Sidney, who may hold a vision for their community that reaches well beyond the practical. With Neptune in the eleventh house, disappointment can follow when a group falls short of that vision, even when its effort was sincere.
Pluto in Cancer
14° Cancer 01' ℞ · tenth house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Sidney 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.
Influence may matter more to Sidney than surface status, and with Pluto in the tenth house, a working life that stops meaning something may well be reinvented. Pluto here is associated with caring more about public power than public popularity, two things that are easy to confuse.
Aspects in Sidney Poitier’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Jupiter square Saturn
0.7° separating
Enthusiasm for growth can run into limits here, whether practical or self-imposed, and to Sidney Poitier it may feel as though ambition keeps outrunning the time and energy available. Jupiter square Saturn works best when the limit is treated as a pace-setter and not as a wall.
Mars sextile Uranus
1.7° separating
Bold, original action comes to Sidney without much friction, because drive and independence are on good terms in this sextile. It is useful initiative with little drama attached, the sort that tries something new without making a big production of it.
Sun square Mars
1.9° separating
Impatience, or a habit of picking fights that did not need picking, can come from the clash between Sidney's sense of self and their drive to act. With the Sun square Mars, a pause between the impulse and the action turns this friction into determination they can use.
Mars square Neptune
4.1° separating
Under this square, drive can dissolve into confusion or self-doubt just when clarity matters most, especially around goals that involve other people's expectations. It helps Sidney to separate the plan itself from the feeling of overwhelm that surrounds it.
Mercury trine Pluto
4.5° separating
Sidney's thinking and depth support each other, which gives them a natural ability to work through complex or hidden material without getting overwhelmed. With Mercury trine Pluto, research and difficult conversations both come easily, and Sidney can stay with a hard subject long after others have looked away.
Venus conjunction Uranus
4.6° applying
Affection runs independent and a little unpredictable with Venus conjunct Uranus, and Sidney 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.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Mercury conjunction Venus4.7°
- Moon square Pluto5.5°
- Sun square Saturn5.7°
- Moon sextile Neptune5.9°
- Sun opposition Neptune6.0°
- Jupiter trine Pluto6.2°
- Sun conjunction Jupiter6.4°
- Mars opposition Saturn7.6°
Pisces Sun and Libra Moon, like Sidney Poitier
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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; 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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