Famous birth charts · Lila Downs
Lila Downs’ chart in full
Born September 9, 1968, Oaxaca, Mexico. The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
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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 Virgo
The Fixer. Precise, useful and kind.
17°06′
Moon in Aries
The Quick Flame. Quick to flare, quick to forgive.
20°41′
Mercury in Libra
The Mediator. Both sides of the question.
11°22′
Venus in Libra
The Sweetheart. Grace, romance and balance.
9°11′
Mars in Leo
The Leader. Courage with an audience.
22°25′
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Jupiter in Virgo
The Improver. Faith in the useful.
16°33′
Saturn in Ariesretrograde
The Independent. Courage that learned to wait.
24°36′
Uranus in Virgo
28°49′
Neptune in Scorpio
24°06′
Pluto in Virgo
22°28′
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 Aries
The direction her life grows in: Aries, bold and direct.
9°40′
Chiron in Aries
In Aries, Chiron is a doubt about the right to go first, and with it a talent for giving others their nerve.
1°43′
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini
In Gemini, Lilith is the quick tongue that says out loud what the room only thinks.
9°16′
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 her chart, her identity, her optimism, her independence and her intensity (the Sun, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto) gather in Virgo, and that part of life draws her attention first.
Yod
Two planets in easy contact both point awkwardly at a third, which becomes the focus: a talent that takes constant adjusting.
In her chart, her imagination (Neptune in Scorpio) and her intensity (Pluto in Virgo) both point at her discipline (Saturn in Aries), the part of her that keeps needing adjustment and gives her life its focus.
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.
Venus opposition North Node almost exact at 0.5°
What feels comfortable in love and what helps her grow are different things, and she chooses between them more than once.
Saturn quincunx Neptune almost exact at 0.5°
Duty and dreams keep trading places as the priority.
The Sun conjunction Jupiter almost exact at 0.6°
Optimism at the centre of her: she expects things to go well, and that confidence wins people over.
Neptune sextile Pluto close at 1.6°
A quiet hunger for meaning under everyday life, and a tolerance for great change.
Mars square Neptune close at 1.7°
Drive and dreams mix uneasily: the goal is clear to her, and the way to it harder to see.
Mercury opposition North Node close at 1.7°
Old ideas and the way forward are at odds, and she learns new ways of thinking to move on.
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The Moon trine Mars close at 1.7°
Her feelings turn straight into action: when something matters, she does something about it.
Saturn quincunx Pluto close at 2.1°
She keeps adjusting between control and acceptance, and learns where each belongs.
Mercury conjunction Venus close at 2.2°
Words with charm in them: she has an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people like listening to her.
Mars trine Saturn close at 2.2°
Her drive and her discipline work together easily: she can push hard and keep going.
Uranus sextile Neptune wide at 4.7°
Change and idealism go together: new ideas come wrapped in dreams of a better world.
The Sun conjunction Pluto wide at 5.4°
Intensity at the centre: she wants the whole truth about everything, herself first, and she remakes herself more than once to reach it.
Jupiter conjunction Pluto wide at 5.9°
Large ambitions and the will to see them through: she works on a grand scale.
Uranus conjunction Pluto wide at 6.3°
Born into a time of upheaval: she wants radical change, and wants it at once.
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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