Bill Evans
1929-08-16 at 02:57:00 · Plainfield, New Jersey
Bill Evans's chart reveals a radiant, creative force... someone who needs to express, to be seen, and finds identity through the courage to shine. With a Leo Sun in the 2nd house, their sense of purpose is expressed through the domain of values and resources... a placement that shapes how they show up in the world and what they're here to do.
Beneath the surface, a Capricorn Moon speaks to what Bill needs emotionally... structure, achievement, and the knowledge that effort leads to results. This is the private self, the part that exists when the spotlight fades.
The world meets Bill through Cancer rising... warm, approachable, and quietly protective... someone who feels like home to others. This is the lens through which all of their chart's energy is filtered, the first thing people sense before they know the full story.
Their drive is methodical and precise... they achieve through careful, sustained effort. With 3 retrograde planets in their natal chart, much of Bill's energy is directed inward... a rich inner world that fuels their outer expression. A concentration of planets in Virgo gives Bill's chart a strong Virgo emphasis... amplifying the themes of that sign throughout their life.
Planetary Positions
Rising: Cancer · Midheaven: Pisces♌ Leo
22° · House 2
♑ Capricorn
7° · House 6
♍ Virgo
8° · House 3
♋ Cancer
12° · House 12
♍ Virgo
26° · House 4
♊ Gemini
12° · House 12
♐ Sagittarius
24° · House 6℞
♈ Aries
11° · House 10℞
♍ Virgo
0° · House 3
♋ Cancer
18° · House 1
♉ Taurus
16° · House 11℞
♉ Taurus
14° · House 11
♑ Capricorn
5° · House 6
Chart Interpretations
Sun in Leo in House 2
Your Sun in Leo in the second house brings fixed fire's generosity, creative confidence, and genuine appreciation for quality to the life area of personal resources, values, and material security ... producing a relationship with money that is proud, pleasure-oriented, and deeply tied to a sense that your financial life should reflect your genuine magnificence. The Sun rules Leo, and in the 2nd house that means your core identity expresses partly through your material world: how you earn, what you own, and the quality of your lifestyle are not peripheral concerns but genuine expressions of self. You have high standards for the material quality of your life and are willing to work with genuine energy to achieve them. Fixed modality means financial patterns are consistent and sometimes stubbornly maintained ... you build slowly but hold tightly to what you've established. To work with this energy consciously, pair your natural generosity and appreciation for abundance with a financial strategy that sustains the lifestyle Leo genuinely needs ... the love of abundance can outpace income if not actively managed, and practical structure is what allows genuine magnificence to be maintained over time. The honest challenge is spending as self-expression: Leo in the 2nd can equate financial generosity and beautiful possessions with personal worthiness, using lavishness as emotional reassurance rather than straightforward enjoyment of what is genuinely good.
Moon in Capricorn in House 6
Your Moon in Capricorn in the sixth house channels the Moon's detriment in Capricorn into the domain most naturally aligned with Saturn's values ... daily work, craft, disciplined health practices, and the sustained professional excellence that compounds over a working lifetime into something genuinely extraordinary. Capricorn is cardinal earth ruled by Saturn, and in the 6th house that alignment is doubly reinforced: your emotional wellbeing is substantially maintained through productive daily work, your body is managed with strategic discipline, and your professional instinct is to meet every standard completely rather than approximately. The Moon's detriment here means that the Moon's need for nourishment, ease, and the simple pleasure of being cared for is genuinely challenged by the Saturnine belief that worth must be earned through effort and that rest requires justification. You have extraordinary stamina for demanding work, an ability to sustain disciplined routines long after others have abandoned them, and a professional reliability that earns the kind of deep institutional trust that takes years to build and is worth considerably more than it is typically acknowledged. To work with this energy consciously, treat rest, gentleness, and the simple enjoyment of daily life as genuine and essential components of sustainable high performance rather than as rewards contingent on sufficient prior effort ... the Moon in detriment in Capricorn in the 6th can overwork its own system in ways that eventually produce the breakdown it was trying to prevent. The honest growth challenge is the self-punishing quality of Saturn's standards applied to daily life without sufficient self-compassion, and the maturation of this placement is building routines that maintain both the excellent work your Moon finds genuinely satisfying and the genuine care for your own physical and emotional wellbeing that makes that work sustainably possible.
Mercury in Virgo in House 3
Your Mercury in Virgo in the third house is one of the most naturally capable communication placements in the zodiac ... Mercury both rules and is exalted in Virgo, and the third house is Mercury's own natural domain, producing a triple resonance of analytical precision, communicative intelligence, and daily intellectual vitality. Your writing is exact and genuinely useful; your speaking is organized and reliable; your thinking about the ordinary texture of daily life has a practical clarity that others depend on. You are the person others turn to when they need something explained correctly, written precisely, or understood thoroughly ... and you do not stop at a surface answer when the real answer requires going deeper. Learning is a deep and ongoing pleasure; you genuinely enjoy the process of knowing something accurately and completely. To work with this energy consciously, deploy your exceptional communicative precision in service of things that genuinely matter to you ... the analytical intelligence that characterizes your daily communication is capable of remarkable impact when it is directed toward subjects you care about deeply. The growth edge is that Virgo's critical faculty in the third house can generate a communication style that, for all its accuracy, can feel corrective or nitpicking to people who needed warmth more than precision; the growth work is calibrating your analytical gifts to what the situation genuinely calls for.
Venus in Cancer in House 12
Your Venus in Cancer in the twelfth house creates an extraordinarily tender, private, and emotionally rich inner world. Your deepest feelings about love, beauty, and connection are profoundly personal and may be difficult to express openly. You may experience powerful nostalgic longings, dream vividly about loved ones, or feel spiritual connections to ancestors and family members who have passed. Solitude is deeply nourishing for you, especially when spent in a comfortable, beautiful environment that feels like a sanctuary. Your compassion for suffering is immense, and you may channel your love into private acts of charity or spiritual devotion. Hidden artistic talents, especially those involving emotional expression, may be significant. The growth opportunity is sharing your deep emotional world rather than keeping it entirely private. Consciously create safe contexts for vulnerability ... therapy, trusted confidants, or creative expression ... because the love you carry inwardly has the power to heal others when you allow it to be seen.
Mars in Virgo in House 4
Your Mars in Virgo in the fourth house brings organized, detail-oriented, and service-driven energy to home, family, and emotional foundations. You put genuine effort into creating a functional, orderly home environment, and you may express care for family through practical acts of service rather than overt emotional displays. There can be a critical streak within the household ... high standards for how things should be done. Health and daily routines in the domestic sphere are important to you. The insight: softening perfectionist expectations of yourself and your family members in the home creates the emotional warmth to complement your already impressive practical competence.
Jupiter in Gemini in House 12
Your Jupiter in Gemini in the twelfth house places your expansive, learning-oriented energy in the hidden, spiritual, and unconscious realm of your chart. Your inner life is extraordinarily active ... you may have vivid dreams, a rich internal dialogue, and a capacity for meditation or contemplation that surprises those who know your outgoing exterior. Writing in private, journaling, or exploring spiritual ideas through reading can be deeply nourishing practices. You may possess hidden intellectual gifts that emerge unexpectedly or serve you in moments of solitude and retreat. The challenge with Jupiter in detriment here is mental restlessness that can manifest as anxiety, insomnia, or overthinking when you are alone. Develop practices that quiet the mind ... breathwork, meditation, time in nature ... and you access a profound inner wisdom that operates beneath your busy conscious mind and guides you with surprising accuracy.
Saturn in Sagittarius in House 6
℞Your Saturn in Sagittarius in the sixth house brings a broad, purposeful vision to your daily work and health practices. You need your work to have meaning beyond the immediate task ... you are not satisfied by work that serves no larger purpose, and environments that feel philosophically stifling drain your energy dramatically. Saturn here asks you to develop the discipline to do the detailed, unglamorous work that brings grand visions to life, even when it tests your patience. Health-wise, you benefit from physical activities that also feed your sense of adventure ... hiking, travel, sports in varied environments. Practical insight: frame your daily routines as part of a larger meaningful project and they become much more sustainable.
Uranus in Aries in House 10
℞Your Uranus in Aries in the tenth house places the planet of disruption at the peak of your chart, directly shaping your career, public reputation, and relationship with authority. Aries is cardinal fire, so your professional ambitions are bold and self-directed, and Uranus ensures that your career path is anything but linear. This generational signature marks a cohort that transforms leadership and industry, but with Uranus in your tenth house, you are personally called to a vocation that breaks new ground. You may change careers several times, or you may work in fields like technology, activism, or innovation where disruption is the job description. Authority figures either inspire or infuriate you ... there is rarely a middle ground. The challenge is building a reputation that withstands your own restlessness, because professional credibility requires some consistency over time. When you commit to a mission larger than your own need for novelty, your career becomes a vehicle for genuine cultural change and your public image reflects authentic leadership.
Neptune in Virgo in House 3
Your Neptune in Virgo in the third house places the planet of imagination in its detriment sign of Virgo, directing it into the house of communication, learning, and local community. Neptune in Virgo is generational, but the third house makes it personally relevant to your communication style and daily mental life. You have a gift for precise, carefully crafted communication that somehow also manages to evoke something larger and more meaningful than the mere facts. Writing, editing, teaching, and research are natural territories for you. The practical insight is to allow your imagination a little more freedom in your communications ... not every sentence needs to be verified before being uttered. Your analytic gifts are real; let them be enlivened by Neptune's broader vision.
Pluto in Cancer in House 1
Your Pluto in Cancer in the first house places the planet of transformation in the cardinal water sign of emotional depth and nurturing, making your very identity a vessel of intense emotional power. You present to the world as someone deeply feeling, protective, and instinctively aware of others' vulnerabilities. Your emotional antenna is extraordinarily sensitive, and you can read the unspoken dynamics in any room within moments of entering it. This generational placement shaped an era of profound changes in family structures and emotional norms, and your first house position makes you a personal embodiment of those shifts. People are drawn to your emotional authenticity and your capacity to create a sense of belonging. The challenge is managing the intensity of your feelings without becoming controlling, emotionally manipulative, or overwhelmed by the needs of those around you. When you channel your emotional depth into conscious caregiving and self-awareness, you become a transformative presence who helps others feel seen at their deepest level.
North Node in Taurus in House 11
℞Your North Node in Taurus in the eleventh house leads you toward contributing to communities and friendships through grounded, practical support rather than radical disruption. You are here to learn that your greatest gift to a group is your steadiness ... your ability to provide stable resources, practical wisdom, and long-term commitment to a shared vision. The eleventh house focuses this growth on social networks, causes, and collective hopes. Choose causes worth long-term investment, be the friend who shows up consistently, and help communities build sustainable, tangible foundations. Your enduring loyalty is one of the most valuable things you can offer to a collective.
Chiron in Taurus in House 11
Chiron in Taurus in the eleventh house brings the Wounded Healer into the life area governing friendships, communities, and the collective dimension of your life ... filtered through fixed earth's loyal, patient energy and Venus's instinct for creating genuine beauty and comfort within social bonds. The eleventh house concerns your place in the collective: the friendships you build, the communities you belong to, the social causes you invest in, and the long-range vision you hold for the future, and with Chiron in Taurus here the wound touches your sense of material and practical belonging within groups. You may have experienced exclusion from communities that felt materially privileged relative to you, or the persistent sense that your practical, grounded contributions to collective life were undervalued compared to more intellectually or ideologically dramatic offerings. Taurus' fixed quality in the eleventh house can produce either a deeply loyal, stabilizing presence in social groups or a reluctance to commit to communities until the material conditions feel certain enough ... Chiron here means that threshold of felt security in collective life is marked by old injury. Your gift is a practical understanding of what communities actually need to be genuinely nourishing and sustainable ... not just inspiring, but grounded and materially supported ... which makes you an unusually effective builder of lasting social bonds and institutional structures. To work with this energy consciously, allow yourself to contribute your steady, stabilizing presence to communities before you feel entirely certain of your welcome: your reliability is itself the gift. The growth edge is that fixed earth in the eleventh house can produce a social wariness ... waiting for material conditions to be right before investing ... that keeps you perpetually at the edge of belonging, and the growth is trusting that your consistent, generous presence is precisely what the communities that need you most are waiting for.
Ascendant (Rising) in Cancer
With Cancer rising, you project warmth, sensitivity, and emotional depth. People sense your nurturing quality immediately... you make others feel cared for without trying. There's a protective shell around you that takes time to open, but once it does, your loyalty and emotional intelligence are unmistakable.
Descendant in Capricorn
With your Descendant in Capricorn, you're drawn to partners who are ambitious, disciplined, and emotionally mature. You seek relationships with structure and long-term commitment... someone who takes partnership as seriously as you do.
Midheaven in Pisces
With your Midheaven in Pisces, your career is guided by intuition, compassion, and creative imagination. You're drawn to work that serves a higher purpose or involves artistic expression. Your professional reputation grows through empathy and the ability to connect with people on a deeper level.
Imum Coeli in Virgo
With your IC in Virgo, your roots are shaped by order, routine, and practical care. Your home needs to function well for you to feel at peace. You recharge through organizing your environment and taking care of the details.
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