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Born 1942-11-27 · Seattle, Washington, USA · birth time unverified
Jimi Hendrix's chart reveals an expansive, philosophical spirit... someone driven by meaning, adventure, and the belief that life is an ongoing discovery. With a Sagittarius Sun in the 10th house, their sense of purpose is expressed through the domain of career and public life... a placement that shapes how they show up in the world and what they're here to do.
Beneath the surface, a Cancer Moon speaks to what Jimi needs emotionally... deep emotional connection, home, and a sense of belonging. This is the private self, the part that exists when the spotlight fades.
The world meets Jimi through Capricorn rising... serious, capable, and quietly authoritative... someone who commands respect without demanding it. 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 runs deep and is not easily deterred... they pursue goals with quiet, transformative intensity. With 5 retrograde planets in their natal chart, much of Jimi's energy is directed inward... a rich inner world that fuels their outer expression. A concentration of planets in Sagittarius gives Jimi's chart a strong Sagittarius emphasis... amplifying the themes of that sign throughout their life.
♐ Sagittarius
4° · House 10
♋ Cancer
28° · House 7
♐ Sagittarius
3° · House 10
♐ Sagittarius
7° · House 10
♏ Scorpio
17° · House 9
♋ Cancer
24° · House 7℞
♊ Gemini
9° · House 4℞
♊ Gemini
2° · House 4℞
♎ Libra
1° · House 8
♌ Leo
7° · House 7℞
♌ Leo
28° · House 7℞
♌ Leo
29° · House 7
Your Sun in Sagittarius in the tenth house builds your career and public reputation on your wisdom, expansive vision, and the genuine ability to inspire others toward a larger horizon ... producing a professional identity characterized by philosophical warmth, intellectual range, and a quality of public presence that makes people feel that more is possible than they previously imagined. Sagittarius is mutable fire ruled by Jupiter, and at the Midheaven those qualities produce someone drawn to professional roles in education, publishing, law, philosophy, international business, cultural exchange, or any field where optimistic, expansive thinking can genuinely influence and lead. Jupiter's association with the 10th here can bring notable career opportunities and a professional profile with genuine reach ... your work has the potential to reach an unusually wide audience. To work with this energy consciously, step boldly into roles of thought leadership and public vision ... your natural gifts are genuinely suited to standing before audiences and offering them an expanded view of what is possible. The honest challenge is that mutable fire at the Midheaven can pursue too many professional directions simultaneously and fail to develop any single one to the depth from which genuine authority and lasting legacy actually emerge ... the growth is choosing the professional direction that is most authentically yours and going all the way in.
Your Moon in Cancer in the seventh house places the Moon in its ruling sign directly in the Angular domain of committed partnership ... and this creates one of the most emotionally invested, devotedly nurturing, and genuinely tender relational configurations in the chart. The 7th house governs significant one-on-one relationships, and Cancer here means your deepest emotional needs ... for safety, belonging, genuine nurturing, and the sense of being at home in another person's presence ... are met primarily through the quality of your most important relationship. Cancer is cardinal water ruled by the Moon, meaning you move actively toward partnership, you invest in it with your full emotional nature, and you organize a significant portion of your inner life around the bond you have created. You seek a partner who feels like home ... not in a passive or comfortable way, but in the deep psychological sense of someone with whom you can be completely emotionally present, vulnerably yourself, and genuinely safe. Your capacity for devoted, protective, emotionally perceptive partnership is extraordinary; you feel your partner's needs before they are articulated and respond with a quality of attentive care that is genuinely rare. To work with this energy consciously, build an interior emotional foundation that is substantial enough to sustain you when partnership is difficult or temporarily unavailable ... the danger of Cancer in the 7th is that it can locate the entire source of emotional security in the partner, creating a dependency that ultimately limits both people. The honest growth challenge is the conflation of devoted love with possessive attachment, and the growth is learning to love with the fullness Cancer is capable of while holding that love with an openness that allows the other person their genuine freedom.
Your Mercury in Sagittarius in the tenth house builds your professional reputation on the strength of your philosophical vision, your intellectual enthusiasm, and your genuine ability to communicate big ideas with a personal conviction that moves people in ways that more technically precise but less inspiring minds cannot. Mercury is in its detriment in Sagittarius, and in the tenth house of career and public standing, that quality means your professional authority is built on inspirational range rather than on demonstrated precision ... which is genuinely valuable and which also requires conscious management of its limitations. You are known in your field as someone who sees the big picture, who thinks across disciplines, and who communicates with the kind of genuine passion that makes audiences feel ideas are personally relevant. To work with this energy consciously, develop demonstrable expertise in at least one domain as the anchor of your professional reputation ... the visionary breadth that characterizes your public communication is most powerful when it is backed by real mastery in a specific area. The growth edge is that Mercury in detriment in the tenth house can produce a professional reputation that inspires without fully delivering on its own implications; the growth work is developing the discipline to follow your biggest professional ideas all the way through to their practical realization.
Your Venus in Sagittarius in the tenth house places your adventurous, optimistic, and philosophically expansive love nature at the peak of your chart, strongly shaping your career and public reputation. You are likely known for your enthusiasm, cultural breadth, and ability to inspire others with your vision. Careers in education, publishing, travel, international relations, law, or any field that combines intellectual expansion with public visibility suit you well. Your professional reputation benefits from your honesty, generosity, and infectious optimism. You advance through networking across diverse professional and cultural communities. The challenge is restlessness in your career ... changing direction too frequently or overpromising results. Consciously commit to a professional path that allows growth and expansion within a consistent trajectory, and your career will become a genuine platform for the expansive vision that drives you.
Your Mars in Scorpio in the ninth house channels deep, investigative, and passionately committed energy into philosophy, higher learning, and the expansion of your worldview. You pursue truth with relentless intensity and are not satisfied with partial answers or received wisdom ... you want to get to the root. You may be drawn to esoteric philosophy, investigative research, forensic study, or deep spiritual practices that involve genuine transformation. Your beliefs are held with conviction and backed by real, sustained inquiry. The insight: sharing the depth of your philosophical investigation with others ... rather than keeping it private ... contributes to collective wisdom in ways that surface-level scholarship simply cannot.
Your Jupiter in Cancer in the seventh house brings exalted Jupiter's benevolence and wisdom directly into your partnerships and closest relationships. This is one of the most fortunate placements for marriage and committed bonds ... you attract partners who are nurturing, emotionally intelligent, and deeply supportive of your growth. Relationships are a primary vehicle for expansion in your life, and your partnerships tend to improve and deepen over time. You bring emotional generosity, intuitive understanding, and a genuine desire for your partner's happiness to every committed bond. Business partnerships also benefit from your ability to build trust and create a sense of shared emotional investment. The challenge is co-dependence ... becoming so emotionally merged with your partner that you lose your own center. Maintain your individual identity and emotional autonomy within partnership, and this exalted placement delivers relationships that are genuinely transformative and deeply fulfilling.
Your Saturn in Gemini in the fourth house suggests that your early home environment was intellectually stimulating but perhaps emotionally disconnected, or that communication within the family was structured, formal, or strained. You may have felt a need to be clever or informative rather than simply warm at home. As an adult, you work to create a domestic space where ideas flow freely but emotional roots are also honored. Gemini's mercurial quality combined with Saturn's seriousness can make you the family historian, the record-keeper, or the one expected to handle communication on everyone's behalf. Your gift is bringing intellectual clarity to emotionally complicated family dynamics.
Your Uranus in Gemini in the fourth house brings intellectual restlessness and communicative energy to your home life, family roots, and emotional foundation. Gemini is mutable air, so your domestic world is likely filled with books, conversations, and a constant flow of information, while Uranus ensures that your home environment changes frequently. As a generational placement, your cohort transforms family communication patterns and how households connect with information, and in your fourth house, these shifts are deeply personal. Your family of origin may have been intellectually stimulating but emotionally unpredictable, or frequent moves may have made it difficult to establish a settled sense of home. You may need a home that doubles as a workspace or creative studio, and you likely rearrange your living space more often than most. The challenge is creating emotional stability when your instinct is always to keep things moving intellectually. When you build a home that feeds your mind while also providing genuine comfort, you establish the inner security that frees your restless intelligence to do its best work.
Your Neptune in Libra in the eighth house merges the planet of mystery and transformation with Libra's relational, harmonizing energy, placing it in the house of shared resources, deep psychology, sexuality, and rebirth. Neptune in Libra is generational, but the eighth house makes it personally intense and often felt in your deepest relationships. You seek a quality of grace and beauty even in the most transformative and difficult passages of life ... there is an instinct to find the harmony within the chaos of deep change. In shared financial matters, Libra's natural fairness serves you well, though Neptune's blurring tendency calls for clear agreements. Your practical insight is to allow deep relationships to transform you rather than managing that transformation toward a predetermined aesthetic outcome.
Your Pluto in Leo in the seventh house places transformative creative intensity in the realm of committed partnerships and marriage. Leo's fixed fire energy adds passion, drama, and a need for loyalty to your closest relationships. You are drawn to partners who are powerful, charismatic, and who command your genuine admiration and respect. Partnerships can become stages for dramatic power dynamics where both partners vie for center stage, and jealousy or possessiveness may emerge when one partner's light seems to eclipse the other's. Your capacity for devoted, passionate love is extraordinary, and when you fully commit, your loyalty is fierce and unwavering. The challenge is creating partnerships where both individuals can shine without competition or the need to dominate the relationship narrative. When you and your partner learn to celebrate each other's power and creativity without ego threat, your relationship becomes a magnificent, transformative alliance that inspires everyone who witnesses it.
Your North Node in Leo in the seventh house guides your growth toward partnerships where you can bring ... and receive ... genuine admiration, creative appreciation, and warm-hearted pride. You are here to learn that authentic partnership requires you to remain a full, shining individual rather than subordinating your light to the relationship. The seventh house focuses this growth on marriage, close partnerships, and contracts. Choose partners who genuinely celebrate who you are, bring your full creative self into your closest relationships, and resist partnerships built on self-effacement or group approval. The relationships that truly fulfill you will be grand love stories, not quiet arrangements.
Chiron in Leo in the seventh house places the Wounded Healer in the domain of committed partnerships and significant one-on-one relating ... filtered through fixed fire's passionate loyalty and the Sun's deep need to be genuinely seen, celebrated, and lit up by the presence of the person closest to you. The wound here lives in the mirror of intimate partnership: the experience of bringing your full creative warmth and genuine adoration to a relationship and finding it dimmed, unappreciated, or competed with rather than celebrated. Leo in the seventh brings a quality of generous, performative love ... the partner who remembers every anniversary, who makes grand gestures, who genuinely delights in making the beloved feel like the most special person in the room ... and Chiron here means that generosity has gone unreturned in painful ways. Fixed fire means the wound is durable: Leo in the seventh tends to stay, to try harder, to give more in the hope that the recognition will finally come, and Chiron here means that tenacity has sometimes kept you in relationships past the point where genuine mutual celebration was still possible. The Sun rules Leo, and in the seventh house its need to shine finds expression through the quality of its most important partnerships ... you feel most alive when you are genuinely adored by the person you adore ... and Chiron here means that feeling has been elusive, conditional, or intermittent in ways that have shaped your relationship with your own worthiness of love. Your gift is a profound, practically useful understanding of what genuine mutual recognition and celebration in partnership looks like ... you know its absence with unusual precision, which means you can recognize its presence and help others create it. To work with this energy consciously, practice asking directly for the recognition and celebration you need from partners rather than performing more generously in hopes they'll notice. The growth edge is that fixed Leo in the seventh can stay in relationships that aren't working because the wound makes leaving feel like a confirmation of unworthiness, and the growth is learning that genuine self-respect sometimes requires choosing yourself over the relationship.