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Mae Jemison’s birth chart

DoctorBorn October 17, 1956, Decatur, Alabama, United States

Gracious, sociable and keen on fairness.

  • SunLibraThe Diplomat
  • MoonAriesor Pisces
  • VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she is

    Sun in Libra, the Diplomat

    Gracious, sociable and keen on fairness. Has a gift for making people feel at ease with each other. She takes in moods, music and other people’s hopes, and gives them back as something new.

    The Sun conjunction Neptune (wide at 5.6°)

  2. What she needs

    Moon in Aries or Pisces, the Quick Flame

    Quick to feel and quick to forgive. Needs to say it, do something about it and move on. Steady feelings: she keeps calm under strain, and she loves in ways that last.

    The Moon trine Saturn (almost exact at 0.5°) · For a birth before 11:36 a.m., her Moon was in Pisces.

  3. How she loves

    Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic

    Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches. In love she wants tenderness and a chase at once, and her relationships are rarely calm.

    Venus opposition Mars (almost exact at 0.2°)

  4. How she thinks

    Mercury in Libra, the Mediator

    Weighs every side before speaking. Diplomatic, graceful and good at finding the words that keep the peace. A quick, original mind: ideas arrive in flashes, and she sees answers others miss.

    Mercury sextile Uranus (close at 1.1°)

  5. What drives her

    Mars in Pisces, the Gentle Warrior

    Moves by intuition and feeling. Finds strength in service and in standing up for someone else. She takes on more than any one person can, and her boldness runs ahead of her plans.

    Mars opposition Jupiter (wide at 7.6°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her identity, her mind and her imagination (the Sun, Mercury and Neptune) gather in Libra, and that part of life draws her attention first. Most of her planets are in fire signs: instinct and enthusiasm.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Mae Jemison was born two days before a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 96% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Wednesday, twenty-four days after the September equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For Mae Jemison, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 2014 and 2015, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1985. The third begins in 2044. When is yours?

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Signs that click with Libra

You and Mae Jemison

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The chart

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

Mae Jemison’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about her chart

What is Mae Jemison’s zodiac sign?

Libra. Mae Jemison was born on October 17, 1956, with the Sun in Libra, the Diplomat. Gracious, sociable and keen on fairness. Has a gift for making people feel at ease with each other.

What is Mae Jemison’s Moon sign?

Aries or Pisces. The Moon moved from Pisces into Aries at 11:36 a.m. that day, local time: in Pisces for a birth before then, in Aries for one after.

What is Mae Jemison’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 October 17, 1956. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Mae Jemison’s Venus sign?

Virgo, the Quiet Romantic. Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches.

How does your chart compare with Mae Jemison’s?

Set your chart beside Mae Jemison’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 Mae Jemison’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: NASA, 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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