Famous birth charts · Bill Withers
Bill Withers’ chart in full
Born July 4, 1938, Slab Fork, West Virginia, United States. The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Point at a body or a sign to see its connections.
The chart, fact by fact
Planets
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The ten bodies astrology reads: the Sun, the Moon and eight planets. The planet says which part of a person it speaks for, the sign says how that part behaves, and the house says where in life it shows.
Sun in Cancer
The Protector. Home, memory and care.
12°00′
Moon in Libra
The Peacemaker. Needing harmony.
13°07′
Mercury in Cancer
The Remembering Mind. A memory for tone.
25°20′
Venus in Leo
The Romantic. Grand, generous love.
18°51′
Mars in Cancer
The Defender. Fierce for its own.
18°09′
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Jupiter in Piscesretrograde
The Believer. Faith without limits.
1°59′
Saturn in Aries
The Independent. Courage that learned to wait.
17°28′
Uranus in Taurus
16°48′
Neptune in Virgo
18°41′
Pluto in Cancer
29°10′
Beyond the planets
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Points read beside the planets. The rising sign, or Ascendant, is the sign coming up over the eastern horizon at the minute of birth: the first impression. The Midheaven is the highest point of the sky: career and public life. The North Node is where the Moon’s path crosses the Sun’s: the direction a life grows in. Chiron, a small body between Saturn and Uranus, is a lifelong sore spot and the gift it leaves for others. Black Moon Lilith, where the Moon’s orbit swings farthest from Earth, is what a person keeps untamed.
North Node in Scorpio
The direction his life grows in: Scorpio, intense and private.
25°54′
Chiron in Cancer
In Cancer, Chiron is an early longing to belong somewhere, and a knack for making strangers feel at home.
3°31′
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn
In Capricorn, Lilith is an ambition that has stopped waiting its turn.
11°01′
The rising sign and the Midheaven need the birth time to the minute, so they are left out.
Patterns
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When several aspects lock into one shape, such as a triangle or a cross, the planets in it act together, and the shape says how: easily, under strain, or with one planet as the focus.
Stellium
Three or more planets gathered in one sign or one house, so that part of the chart speaks loudest.
In his chart, his identity, his mind, his drive and his intensity (the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew his attention first.
Aspects by strength
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An aspect is a set angle between two bodies in the sky at birth. Some angles flow, some rub, and some fuse two bodies into one. The number is how far the angle is from exact: the smaller it is, the stronger the link.
Only the aspects that held from the first minute of the day to the last are shown; each figure is for noon.
Mars sextile Neptune almost exact at 0.5°
He worked for ideals: his drive came alive for a cause, a role or a dream.
Mercury trine North Node almost exact at 0.6°
His way with words helped him find his direction, and the right ideas came at the right time.
Mars square Saturn almost exact at 0.7°
Drive with the brakes on: he wanted to move, something held him back, and the friction made him tough.
The Sun square the Moon close at 1.1°
The self he showed the world and the self he came home to wanted different things, and he made room for both.
Saturn quincunx Neptune close at 1.2°
Duty and dreams kept trading places as the priority.
Mars sextile Uranus close at 1.4°
Quick and inventive in action: he moved fast, broke with habit and made sudden changes work.
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Venus trine Saturn close at 1.4°
Loyal in love: he chose carefully, and what he built with people lasted.
Uranus trine Neptune close at 1.9°
Change and idealism went together: new ideas came wrapped in dreams of a better world.
Venus square Uranus close at 2.0°
Love came in sudden starts and stops: he fell for people quickly and needed room just as quickly.
Jupiter quincunx Pluto close at 2.8°
The bigger the stakes grew, the more he had to rethink his aims.
Pluto trine North Node wide at 3.3°
Deep change helped him forward: each time he started over, he went further.
Mercury conjunction Pluto wide at 3.8°
He thought like a detective: nothing was taken at face value, and he remembered everything.
The Sun sextile Uranus wide at 4.8°
Independence came easily: he did things his own way, and people found it refreshing rather than rude.
The Sun square Saturn wide at 5.5°
Self-belief came slowly and had to be earned, one result at a time, and every result counted.
Jupiter square North Node wide at 6.1°
Easy hopes and the harder way forward went different ways, and real growth came from the harder one.
The Sun conjunction Mars wide at 6.2°
Purpose and drive in one place: he was quick to start, quick to compete and hard to stop.
Mercury conjunction Mars wide at 7.2°
He thought fast and spoke faster: his mind liked a contest, and his words had an edge.
Chart signature
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The chart’s balance at a glance: which of the four elements and three modes it leans on, which body is most connected, and any body standing alone.
Elements
Modes
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