Ray Charles’ birth chart
SingerBorn September 23, 1930, Albany, Georgia, United StatesDied June 10, 2004
Sharp-eyed and quietly kind.
- SunVirgoor Libra
- MoonLibraThe Peacemaker
- VenusScorpioThe Devotee
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Virgo or Libra, the Fixer
Sharp-eyed and quietly kind. Sees how a thing could work better and rolls up his sleeves to fix it. His mind and his identity were close together: he spoke as he thought, and his ideas were part of who he was.
The Sun conjunction Mercury (wide at 3.7°) · For a birth after 2:36 p.m., his Sun was in Libra.
What he needed
Moon in Libra, the Peacemaker
Unsettled by conflict and soothed by kindness. Needs good company and a sense that things are fair. Quick feelings and a quick temper: he reacted first, and his courage came from the same place as his flashes of anger.
The Moon square Mars (almost exact at 0.4°)
How he loved
Venus in Scorpio, the Devotee
Loves intensely and loyally. Wants a close, honest bond and nothing less. Charm and desire worked together: he knew what he wanted in love and how to win it.
Venus trine Mars (exact at 0.0°)
How he thought
Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst
Precise, practical and clever. Notices the detail everyone else missed.
What drove him
Mars in Cancer, the Defender
Fights hardest for the people closest to him. Works best for a cause that feels personal. Enthusiasm at full speed: he charged at life with confidence, and setbacks slowed him only briefly.
Mars conjunction Jupiter (close at 1.6°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his drive, his optimism and his intensity (Mars, Jupiter and Pluto) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew his attention first. The weight of his chart sits in earth and water signs: the practical and the solid, and feeling and intuition.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Ray Charles was born the day after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 2% lit, in Libra. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Tuesday, the day of the September equinox.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Ray Charles was born, as it was on 71 days of 1930. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Ray Charles, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1988, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1959. When is yours?
You and Ray Charles
Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.
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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.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
Questions about his chart
What is Ray Charles’ zodiac sign?
Virgo or Libra. The Sun moved from Virgo into Libra at 2:36 p.m. that day, local time: in Virgo for a birth before then, in Libra for one after.
What is Ray Charles’ Moon sign?
Libra, the Peacemaker. Unsettled by conflict and soothed by kindness. Needs good company and a sense that things are fair.
What is Ray Charles’ 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 September 23, 1930. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Ray Charles’ Venus sign?
Scorpio, the Devotee. Loves intensely and loyally. Wants a close, honest bond and nothing less.
How does your chart compare with Ray Charles’?
Set your chart beside Ray Charles’ 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 Ray Charles’ Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: William Morris Agency (management)/Photo by Maurice Seymour, New York., 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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