Birth chart
Janis Joplin
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Time unknown — no reliable birth time, so houses and the Ascendant are left out and the Moon is shown as a range.
Every figure gets a data-confidence rating for its birth time. Where the time is unknown, we compute a partial chart rather than guess. How we build this base
♑Sun
Capricorn
♋Moon
Cancer
↑Rising
Unknown
The Ascendant needs an exact birth time, which we don't have for this chart.
Chart wheel
Positions from a Swiss-ephemeris engine · houses & angles omitted (time unknown)
Reading the placements
These notes describe the chart, not the person — a lens for reflection.
☉Sun in Capricorn
In the astrological tradition, the Sun is your core self, and in Capricorn it grows through purpose, patience, and building something real over time. There's a pull toward responsibility and mastery — a willingness to climb slowly and carry weight others put down. People often experience this as capable and steady, and sometimes as too hard on themselves, measuring worth by output. The theme worth exploring is where the mountain came from — whose summit you're climbing, and whether reaching it still feels like yours. Rest can be pictured without first earning it, once the climb stops standing in for proof and the drive reads as a resource to aim rather than a debt that keeps coming due.
☽Moon in Cancer
In the astrological tradition, the Moon governs care, memory, and the wish to belong — and Cancer is the sign it rules, so those themes run strong. Your feelings move in tides. Closeness fills you; a small slight can pull you inward, behind a shell that protects a genuinely soft center. You steady yourself by tending to people and places, by cooking, remembering, keeping what matters close. The care you give others is real and needed. It helps to aim some of it back at yourself, so nurturing does not quietly become the only way you know you are safe. Gentleness offered this freely to others is worth, now and then, turning back toward the one who keeps giving it.
The astronomy
The raw computed positions behind this chart — the same numbers any ephemeris would give.
Positions
| Body | Sign & degree |
|---|---|
| ☉Sun | ♑Capricorn 28°45′ |
| ☿Mercury | ♒Aquarius 9°24′℞ |
| ♀Venus | ♒Aquarius 14°09′ |
| ♂Mars | ♐Sagittarius 24°52′ |
| ♃Jupiter | ♋Cancer 19°04′℞ |
| ♄Saturn | ♊Gemini 5°52′℞ |
| ♅Uranus | ♊Gemini 0°44′℞ |
| ♆Neptune | ♎Libra 1°59′℞ |
| ♇Pluto | ♌Leo 6°16′℞ |
| ☊North Node | ♌Leo 25°07′℞ |
| ☋South Node | ♒Aquarius 25°07′℞ |
| ⚷Chiron | ♌Leo 28°10′℞ |
| ⚸Lilith | ♋Cancer 16°10′ |
Aspects · sorted by strength
- ♂☊0°15′
- ☉♅1°59′
- ♂☋0°15′
- ☉♆3°14′
- ♄♇0°24′
- ♅♆1°15′
- ☉♇7°31′
- ♃⚸2°53′
Chart emphasis
Elements
Leading: Air
Modalities
Leading: Cardinal
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