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Ella Fitzgerald’s birth chart

Jazz singerBorn April 25, 1917, Newport News, Virginia, United StatesDied June 15, 1996

Steady as bedrock.

  • SunTaurusThe Gardener
  • MoonGeminior Cancer
  • VenusTaurusThe Keeper

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she was

    Sun in Taurus, the Gardener

    Steady as bedrock. Takes time to decide, and once something is chosen, it is kept and looked after. Charm came naturally: taste, warmth and a love of beautiful things were close to her core.

    The Sun conjunction Venus (almost exact at 0.2°)

  2. What she needed

    Moon in Gemini or Cancer, the Talker

    Feels better after talking it through. Needs conversation, variety and something interesting to think about. Her feelings liked freedom: she needed space in close ties and gave it back just as easily.

    The Moon trine Uranus (close at 2.5°) · For a birth after 8:08 p.m., her Moon was in Cancer.

  3. How she loved

    Venus in Taurus, the Keeper

    Loves with patience, touch and loyalty. Shows it in comfort, good food and being there year after year. She loved with depth and loyalty, and the bonds she formed changed both people.

    Venus sextile Pluto (close at 2.1°)

  4. How she thought

    Mercury in Taurus, the Careful Thinker

    Thinks things through at her own pace. Practical, patient and very hard to talk out of a view. A patient, exact mind: she chose every word, and her thinking got sharper with practice.

    Mercury sextile Saturn (almost exact at 0.6°)

  5. What drove her

    Mars in Aries, the Trailblazer

    All drive, courage and quick starts. Goes first, acts fast, and is at her best when something needs doing now. Quick and inventive in action: she moved fast, broke with habit and made sudden changes work.

    Mars sextile Uranus (almost exact at 0.2°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her identity, her mind, her heart and her optimism (the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter) gather in Taurus, and that part of life drew her attention first. The weight of her chart sits in earth signs: the practical and the solid.

Your own chart, read the same way

The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Ella Fitzgerald was born four days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 18% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Wednesday, 35 days after the March equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For Ella Fitzgerald, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1975, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1945 and 1946. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Taurus

You and Ella Fitzgerald

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets hers, and the signs you share.

Or someone you know: a partner, a friend or a parent. Compare two charts

The chart

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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Ella Fitzgerald’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about her chart

What is Ella Fitzgerald’s zodiac sign?

Taurus. Ella Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, with the Sun in Taurus, the Gardener. Steady as bedrock. Takes time to decide, and once something is chosen, it is kept and looked after.

What is Ella Fitzgerald’s Moon sign?

Gemini or Cancer. The Moon moved from Gemini into Cancer at 8:08 p.m. that day, local time: in Gemini for a birth before then, in Cancer for one after.

What is Ella Fitzgerald’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on April 25, 1917. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Ella Fitzgerald’s Venus sign?

Taurus, the Keeper. Loves with patience, touch and loyalty. Shows it in comfort, good food and being there year after year.

How does your chart compare with Ella Fitzgerald’s?

Set your chart beside Ella Fitzgerald’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Ella Fitzgerald’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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