Tom Waits’s birth chart

Tom Waits's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

1. ☉Sun in Sagittarius

   ♐ 15° Sagittarius 23'

   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.

2. ☽Moon in Cancer

   ♋ 10° Cancer 51'

   needs and habits

   Their needs are tied to home, routine and the people they check in on daily. Tom is steadied by small rituals like a particular meal or a particular chair. The tension is reading other people's moods so closely that they absorb them as their own without noticing.

3. ☿Mercury in Sagittarius

   ♐ 24° Sagittarius 10'

   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.

4. ♀Venus in Aquarius

   ♒ 1° Aquarius 22'

   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.

5. ♂Mars in Virgo

   ♍ 21° Virgo 57'

   drive and anger

   They act carefully and precisely, preferring to get a task right over getting it done fast, and their anger usually comes from things being done sloppily. The tension is criticising instead of confronting when Tom is actually upset. It shows up as a clipped tone that signals frustration well before they say anything directly.

6. ♃Jupiter in Aquarius

   ♒ 1° Aquarius 21'

   growth and excess

   They grow through community, ideas and causes bigger than their own life. The overreach is so much faith in a theory or a group that they overlook its practical flaws. It shows up as an optimism about the future that makes they a natural organiser of other people's efforts.

7. ♄Saturn in Virgo

   ♍ 18° Virgo 58'

   discipline and doubt

   They build discipline around competence, often driven by a fear that they have not yet done enough to deserve rest. The doubt shows up as feeling like a fraud even when their actual track record says otherwise. It shows up as becoming genuinely, quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.

8. ♅Uranus in Cancer

   ♋ 3° Cancer 42' ℞

   freedom, generational

   Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that redefines home and family, departing from the structures their own parents grew up inside. Personally, it can show up as a pull to build family life differently.

9. ♆Neptune in Libra

   ♎ 16° Libra 51'

   imagination, generational

   Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by media images of love that outpace real relationships. Personally, it can show up as a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.

10. ♇Pluto in Leo

    ♌ 18° Leo 07' ℞

    power, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. Personally, it can show up as a charged relationship with authority and who gets to hold the spotlight.

Aspects

How the planets in Tom Waits's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

1. Venus conjunction Jupiter

   0.0° separating

   Their capacity for love and pleasure is generous and expansive, and they tend to enjoy life with real warmth. This makes they naturally good company, and the edge is noticing when generosity has quietly become excess.

2. Neptune sextile Pluto

   1.3° applying

   Shared by this generation, the placement marks collective imagination and transformation cooperating gently, with relatively little friction. Personally, it can show up as cultural belief shifting alongside deeper change with real ease.

3. Sun sextile Neptune

   1.5° applying

   Their identity and their imagination work together gently, giving they acces to creativity and empathy when they make room for them. This is a soft, easy kind of sensitivity that people notice without they having to announce it.

4. Mercury square Mars

   2.2° separating

   Their thoughts and their impulses can clash, showing up as sharp words said before they have fully thought them through. The lesson is a short pause between the thought and the sentence, which changes very little except the outcome.

• Sun trine Pluto2.7°
• Mars conjunction Saturn3.0°
• Sun square Saturn3.6°
• Mercury square Saturn5.2°
• Moon square Neptune6.0°
• Mercury trine Pluto6.1°
• Sun square Mars6.6°
• Moon conjunction Uranus7.2°
• Sun conjunction Mercury8.8°