Sam Cooke’s birth chart
SingerBorn January 22, 1931, Clarksdale, Mississippi, United StatesDied December 11, 1964
Independent, inventive and quietly idealistic.
- SunAquariusThe Free Thinker
- MoonPiscesThe Tide
- VenusSagittariusThe Adventurer
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker
Independent, inventive and quietly idealistic. Asks why things are done this way and imagines a better one. He kept redrawing the line between the life he had and the life he imagined.
The Sun quincunx Neptune (wide at 3.5°)
What he needed
Moon in Pisces, the Tide
Feels the mood of a room from the doorway. Comfort comes from water, music, softness and kindness. What comforted him and what he loved were different things, so his heart and his moods kept negotiating.
The Moon square Venus (almost exact at 0.1°)
How he loved
Venus in Sagittarius, the Adventurer
Loves freedom, laughter and shared adventures. Wants a partner who is also a travel companion. His taste and his appetite for more needed adjusting: he kept learning what was enough.
Venus quincunx Jupiter (close at 2.0°)
How he thought
Mercury in Capricorn, the Planner
Practical, measured and dryly funny. Trusts experience over theory and gets to the point. Thinking and doing kept getting out of step: he acted on half a thought, or thought past the moment to act.
Mercury quincunx Mars (almost exact at 0.9°)
What drove him
Mars in Leo, the Leader
Full of fire and pride. Works hardest for a cause close to his heart and wants the effort to be seen. Quick and inventive in action: he moved fast, broke with habit and made sudden changes work.
Mars trine Uranus (close at 3.0°)
The shape of his chart
Jupiter is the hub of his chart: it takes part in seven of its aspects, more than any other body, so his optimism touched everything else in it.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Sam Cooke was born four days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 14% lit, in Pisces. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Thursday, 31 days after the December solstice.
Mars retrograde
Mars was retrograde all the day Sam Cooke was born, as it was on 67 days of 1931. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Sam Cooke, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1960, at 29: his first Saturn return. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Aquarius
You and Sam Cooke
Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.
Or someone you know: a partner, a friend or a parent. Compare two charts
The chart
Point at a body or a sign to see its connections.
The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
More with the Sun in Aquarius
See allQuestions about his chart
What is Sam Cooke’s zodiac sign?
Aquarius. Sam Cooke was born on January 22, 1931, with the Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker. Independent, inventive and quietly idealistic. Asks why things are done this way and imagines a better one.
What is Sam Cooke’s Moon sign?
Pisces, the Tide. Feels the mood of a room from the doorway. Comfort comes from water, music, softness and kindness.
What is Sam Cooke’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 January 22, 1931. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Sam Cooke’s Venus sign?
Sagittarius, the Adventurer. Loves freedom, laughter and shared adventures. Wants a partner who is also a travel companion.
How does your chart compare with Sam Cooke’s?
Set your chart beside Sam Cooke’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 Sam Cooke’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: RCA Victor Records, 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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