Musician and songwriter · Celebrity birth chart
Kurt Cobain birth chart
Kurt Cobain has the Sun in Pisces, the Moon in Cancer and Virgo rising. Lead singer, guitarist and main songwriter of the grunge band Nirvana.
- Born
- 20 February 1967, 7:38 pm
- Place
- Aberdeen, Washington, United States
- Birth time rating
- AA, from a birth certificate or birth record
- Died
- 5 April 1994
Sun
Pisces
1.8°
Moon
Cancer
13.4°
Rising
Virgo
23.4°
In-depth analysis
What Cobain's chart says
Contents · 13 sections
- Cobain's chart in brief
- How to read this analysis
- The shape of Cobain's chart
- Cobain's Sun, Moon and rising sign
- Mercury, Venus and Mars
- Jupiter and Saturn
- Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
- The configurations that matter most
- The Babylonian and Chaldean layer
- The Tree of Life layer
- Strengths, without flattery
- Difficulties, without drama
- In short
Section 1
Cobain's chart in brief
1.1 Feeling and private will run the chart, plain speech pays the price
The core drive is a water-saturated night chart: eight of eleven counted factors are in water, and the Moon in Cancer leads the sect. The core weakness is the naming function: Mercury, ruler of the Virgo Ascendant, is in detriment and fall in Pisces and sits under the Sun's beams. The two feed each other, because feeling floods the channel while the tool for plain statement works against its sign. ✦
1.2 The strongest evidence points to command from Moon and Mars
First conclusion, by weight: the Moon in Cancer in the 10th is in domicile, in sect, angular, and the endpoint of most dispositor chains, so instinct and public feeling act like an executive function. Second: Mars in Scorpio in the 2nd is in domicile with its own term and face, and the Sun trine Mars at 0.0 degrees fuses that will to identity. Third: Uranus stands 0.1 degrees from the Ascendant degree while conjunct Pluto, so generational disruption is worn as persona. Fourth: Venus is exalted in Pisces in the 7th and in sect, but Saturn and Uranus test every bond. ✦
1.3 The clearest contradiction is oceanic feeling against strained articulation
The chart states the conflict plainly: Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn share Pisces, though they split across houses 6 and 7, while the Virgo Ascendant asks for precision and its ruler Mercury is weakened. The Pisces side usually wins the inner vote because the water count, the Moon's dignity, and the grand trine all point the same way. The cost is that the stronger the feeling becomes, the more it can outrun the words meant to carry it. ✦
Section 2
How to read this analysis
2.1 What was calculated
The report uses an exact birth time, the tropical zodiac, and Placidus houses, all taken as computed. Close aspects under 1 degree lead, aspects from 1 to 5 degrees are clear, and anything wider is background only. Essential dignity, sect from the Sun below the horizon, and angularity grade each planet, and no house is reassigned. As one example of weighting, Sun trine Mars at 0.0 degrees outranks the wide Moon trine Mercury at 5.1 degrees. ✦
2.2 How to test this reading
Astrology is read here as symbolic correspondence, not causation, and nothing is claimed beyond the supplied factors. Because Cobain is a public figure, placements are described as tendencies the chart points to, never as facts about private life, health, relationships, money, or events. Contradictions are reported rather than smoothed, and each statement can be tested by asking whether the described pattern is specific enough to fail. The Chaldean and Tree of Life layers are symbolic texture and add no independent evidence. ✦
Section 3
The shape of Cobain's chart
3.1 A night chart makes the Moon the leader and Saturn the hardest planet
This is a night chart because the Sun is below the horizon in house 6. The Moon is the leading light, Venus is the constructive benefic, Mars is the tempered malefic, and Saturn is the out-of-sect malefic, the hardest classical planet here. That predicts care and instinct carry more authority than daylight assertion, while Saturn's fear and delay bite harder than Mars's force. ✦
3.2 Two executives answer to no one
The dispositor chains of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto end at the Moon in Cancer, while Neptune ends at Mars in Scorpio and Mars ends at itself. Both endpoints are planets in their own signs, so the chart has two sovereigns rather than one executive. These chains organize evidence already supplied by the signs. They do not add new facts. The pattern predicts a temperament administered by feeling on one side and by concentrated private will on the other. ✦
3.3 The face is public feeling, the engine room is hidden
The Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn hold the angular houses 10 and 7, while the Sun and Mercury work from the cadent 6th and Uranus and Pluto sit in the hidden 12th. Angular house membership alone does not mean contact with an angle. The exception is Uranus, supplied at 0.1 degrees from the Ascendant degree, which pulls hidden material onto the face of the chart. The prediction is a public manner built from care and response, powered by private labor and by eruptions that seem to arrive from outside. ✦
3.4 Water dominates and the missing registers become work
The element count is extreme: water 8, earth 3, fire and air absent. Modes skew mutable 7 of 11, so perception runs through feeling, adaptation and dissolution rather than detachment or spontaneous assertion. The missing registers read both ways: less natural access to distance and ignition, and a fascination that can overdevelop them as compensation. The chart supplies workarounds rather than replacements: Mars in domicile does the fire-function by willpower, and the Virgo Ascendant supplies precision. ✦
Section 4
Cobain's Sun, Moon and rising sign
4.1 A peregrine Pisces Sun is powered almost exactly by Mars
The Sun is at 1.8 degrees Pisces in the 6th, peregrine and out of sect, so identity has no sign dignity of its own and works through daily labor. Its backbone is Sun trine Mars at 0.0 degrees, separating, the tightest contact in the chart, from Mars in domicile in Scorpio. The chart describes purpose delivered through work and through controlled force rather than through self-declaration. The gain is stamina inside service and craft. The cost is a core self that can feel ownerless until Mars gives it a target. ✦
4.2 People would notice identity becoming real only when effort has teeth
The mechanism is simple: a soft, imaginal Sun is welded to the chart's strongest planet. In ordinary terms, this temperament would not look vague when a task mattered. It would look absorbed, relentless and hard to redirect. The gain is the ability to enter difficult material and keep going. The cost is that worth can become confused with output, because the cadent Sun needs the 6th-house arena to feel real. The chart suggests people would notice long quiet stretches followed by total commitment, not steady self-promotion. ✦
4.3 The Cancer Moon in the 10th is the reliable engine
The Moon is at 13.4 degrees Cancer in the 10th, in domicile, in sect and angular. Because most dispositor chains end here, the feeling nature is not a private layer but the chart's main operating system. The chart describes instinct for what people need, fused with public standing. The gain is emotional intelligence that can be seen and used. The cost is exposure: moods and needs are not safely backstage when the Moon sits in the most visible house. ✦
4.4 Public response would read as personal, even when it is pattern
A domicile Moon in the 10th tends to make care look like vocation and vocation feel like care. The chart suggests people would notice quick attunement to a room, then withdrawal when the room becomes too loud. The gain is trust from others because the signal reads sincere. The cost is that criticism lands in the body before it becomes information. The counterweight is supplied by the same dignity: this Moon recovers because it is resourced, not because it is thick-skinned. ✦
4.5 Virgo rising wants precision while Uranus sits on the face
The Ascendant is Virgo at 23.4 degrees, and its ruler is Mercury. Uranus stands 0.1 degrees from the Ascendant degree, so the first thing the world meets is not tidy Virgo method but interruption, originality and refusal to be fixed. The chart does not resolve that friction. It states it. The gain is a persona that cannot be mistaken for ordinary. The cost is self-presentation that wants control while broadcasting rupture. ✦
4.6 The three agree on feeling, and fight over form
Sun and Moon are both in water and both answer ultimately to the Moon, while the Ascendant asks for exactness and its ruler is strained in Pisces. They agree that perception is led by feeling, memory and atmosphere. They conflict over packaging: Virgo wants clean edges, Pisces dissolves edges, and Uranus breaks the frame. The stronger side is the water side by count, dignity and dispositor majority. The chart suggests people would notice a precise surface manner covering material that is anything but precise. ✦
Section 5
Mercury, Venus and Mars
5.1 The chart ruler works against its own grain
Mercury is at 18.5 degrees Pisces in the 6th, ruler of the Ascendant, in detriment and fall, and 16.6 degrees from the Sun, under the beams and mildly obscured. Detriment means a planet works against the sign's nature. Fall means it lacks honor and support there. The chart describes a nonlinear, imagistic mind strained when forced into plain statement. One mitigation keeps it functional: Mercury holds its own term at that degree. The wide Moon trine at 5.1 degrees is background help only. ✦
5.2 People would notice meaning arriving before language
This Mercury tends to perceive whole atmospheres first and find exact words second. In an ordinary exchange, the chart suggests pauses, images, sudden leaps, and impatience with questions that demand a neat answer. The gain is perception of what plain speech misses. The cost is being misunderstood exactly where precision matters, especially in work and routine. The chart suggests people would notice clearer truth in indirect forms than in direct explanation. ✦
5.3 Mercury opposite Pluto makes perception forensic and heavy
Mercury opposition Pluto at 1.3 degrees, applying, stretches from the 6th to the 12th. Because Pluto opposes the chart ruler, this is identity-level, not a side note. The chart describes a mind drawn to hidden motives, compulsion and unspoken material. The gain is forensic insight. The cost is obsessive loops, where thought keeps interrogating the same wound long after the useful answer is found. ✦
5.4 Venus is honored, boundless and under examination
Venus is at 26.6 degrees Pisces in the 7th, exalted and in sect. Exaltation means the function is amplified and publicly honored, with some performance built in. The chart describes devotion as compassion rather than transaction, with beauty perceived through surrender. The gain is a real capacity to bond and to receive beauty. The cost is idealization: love can reach for the soul and miss the person. ✦
5.5 Devotion is tested from both sides
Venus conjunct Saturn at 2.2 degrees, applying, binds love to fear, duty and the dread of loss, with Saturn out of sect and therefore the chart's hardest tester. Venus opposition Uranus at 3.3 degrees pulls the same bonds toward freedom and exit. The competing expressions are loyalty proven over time versus closeness experienced as conditional, and merger versus sudden space. The chart supplies both and does not resolve which wins. The counterweight is Venus trine Jupiter at 0.9 degrees, which keeps warmth available. ✦
5.6 Mars in Scorpio is controlled force guarding worth
Mars is at 1.8 degrees Scorpio in the 2nd, in domicile, in sect, and holding its own term and face. Drive concentrates on resources, self-worth, earning, holding and defending value. The chart describes implacable stamina rather than impulsive heat. The gain is reliability: this Mars delivers what it commits to. The cost is control, where worth is guarded so tightly that assertion becomes siege. ✦
5.7 The closest contacts make will, love and mind one pressure system
Sun trine Mars at 0.0 degrees gives the will direct access to identity, while Mercury opposite Pluto at 1.3 degrees gives the mind a depth probe and Venus sits between Saturn and Uranus. Read together, the chart describes feeling that wants merger, speech that strains under weight, and action that holds the line. The gain is intensity with endurance. The cost is that tenderness, thought and defense can trigger each other faster than reflection. The chart suggests people would notice softness and steel arriving in the same sentence. ✦
Section 6
Jupiter and Saturn
6.1 Jupiter grows through care, but inwardly and off schedule
Jupiter is at 25.7 degrees Cancer in the 10th, exalted, retrograde and out of sect. Exaltation is honored expansion. Retrograde turns the faith inward. Out of sect moderates the ease. The chart describes opportunity through protection, belonging and public care, built self-consciously rather than inherited. The gain is quiet generosity that can become standing. The cost is timing: the blessing works best when not forced. ✦
6.2 Jupiter links meaning to imagination, structure and disruption
Jupiter trine Neptune at 1.4 degrees ties faith to image and compassion. Jupiter trine Saturn at 3.0 degrees ties growth to form, and Jupiter sextile Uranus at 2.4 degrees wires opportunity into the hidden 12th-house engine. The chart describes judgment that can hold a vision and still build it. The gain is range without losing tenderness. The cost is that disruption is not outside the plan. It is plugged into it. ✦
6.3 Saturn fears dissolution exactly where Venus wants merger
Saturn is at 28.7 degrees Pisces in the 7th, out of sect, with no sign dignity but its own term. Out of sect means the malefic loses its constructive guardrails. The fear this placement describes is losing form and losing the other, and mastery must be built deliberately as boundaries inside partnership. The gain is endurance learned through commitment. The cost is that closeness can be tested until warmth has to prove itself. ✦
6.4 Growth and limit cooperate by making compassion durable
Jupiter exalted in Cancer wants to protect and enlarge, while Saturn in Pisces suspects that everything can dissolve. Their trine at 3.0 degrees lets hope accept structure without becoming hard. In practice the chart describes care that survives by becoming method, not by staying sentimental. The gain is a protective vision with bones. The cost is slowness, because trust is built only after the boundary is known. ✦
Section 7
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
7.1 Generational signatures become personal at the angles
Uranus in Virgo, Neptune in Scorpio and Pluto in Virgo are shared by cohorts, so their signs alone describe an era more than a person. What is personal here is house and contact. Uranus and Pluto sit in the 12th, but Uranus stands 0.1 degrees from the Ascendant degree, and both square the Midheaven. The chart describes collective upheaval worn as identity and pressed onto public direction. ✦
7.2 Uranus on the Ascendant makes disruption the first impression
Uranus conjunct the Ascendant at 0.1 degrees personalizes the generational signature as outsider stance, sudden reinvention and resistance to definition. Underneath, the Virgo Ascendant wants precision and order, and the chart leaves that tension open. The gain is unmistakable presence. The cost is instability in how the self is met, because the face changes faster than the inner core. ✦
7.3 The 12th-house furnace presses on reputation
Uranus conjunct Pluto at 3.5 degrees in the 12th, both retrograde, internalizes the era's upheaval below awareness. Midheaven square Uranus at 1.5 degrees and Midheaven square Pluto at 2.0 degrees put that private pressure against public direction. The chart describes standing destabilized by material that feels external, though the chart locates it in the hidden house. The counterweight is exalted Jupiter in the 10th, which offers recovery through care and protection. ✦
7.4 Neptune makes everyday perception porous and imagistic
Neptune is in Scorpio in the 3rd, the arena of daily speech and perception, and sextile the Ascendant at 1.0 degree. It is also wired into the water grand trine through Venus and Jupiter. The chart describes symbol-thinking that receives atmosphere before fact. The gain is imagination with emotional x-ray. The cost is fog in plain exchanges when intuition is treated as proof. ✦
Section 8
The configurations that matter most
8.1 Sun trine Mars at 0.0 degrees is the backbone
The tightest aspect in the chart joins a peregrine Pisces Sun in the 6th to Mars in domicile in Scorpio. In practice identity does not self-announce. It becomes real through work that can take pressure. It interacts with the two sovereigns by giving Mars a direct line to the core while the Moon remains the public executive. The gain is concentrated purpose. The cost is that rest can feel like disappearance. ✦
8.2 Uranus on the Ascendant turns cohort upheaval into persona
Uranus stands 0.1 degrees from the Ascendant degree while conjunct Pluto in the 12th. This is the chart's lightning rod: hidden generational disruption becomes the first thing others meet. It interacts with the water grand trine by giving the easy feeling current a sharp outlet. The gain is originality that cannot be staged. The cost is a self-presentation that people may experience as sudden even when the inner motive is steady. ✦
8.3 The water grand trine is real ease with a built-in warning
Venus trine Jupiter at 0.9 degrees, Jupiter trine Neptune at 1.4 degrees, and Venus trine Neptune at 2.2 degrees close a verified water grand trine. In practice compassion, imagination and aesthetic reception flow without effort. The warning is structural: a closed circuit of ease does not push itself. The gain is talent that feels native. The cost is drift unless something aims it. ✦
8.4 The kite aims the gift through disruption
Uranus opposes Venus at 3.3 degrees and sextiles Jupiter at 2.4 degrees and Neptune at 1.1 degrees, completing a kite from the grand trine. The chart's enormous ease is therefore discharged through Uranus, which also sits on the Ascendant and squares the Midheaven. In practice the gift and the disturbance use the same channel. The gain is direction for talent. The cost is that every act of grace can carry a shock. ✦
8.5 Mercury opposite Pluto is the strained voice at identity level
Mercury in detriment and fall, under the beams, opposed by Pluto at 1.3 degrees, makes naming the inner world the chart's hardest daily task. In practice perception goes to depth before it goes to clarity. It interacts with the Pisces stellium by trying to translate ocean into sentence. The gain is truth about hidden things. The cost is evasion or intensity when plain speech would have worked. ✦
8.6 Venus between Saturn and Uranus carries the chart's cost in love
Venus exalted in the 7th is conjunct Saturn at 2.2 degrees and opposite Uranus at 3.3 degrees, with Jupiter trine Venus at 0.9 degrees as counterweight. In practice devotion wants total merger, meets fear of loss, and then meets the need for air. It interacts with the night sect because Venus should be the helpful benefic, yet Saturn is the hardest planet. The gain is loyalty that can become profound. The cost is affection experienced as a test. ✦
8.7 Midheaven squares make public life answer hidden pressure
Midheaven square Uranus at 1.5 degrees and Midheaven square Pluto at 2.0 degrees link career direction to the 12th-house pair. In practice reputation is exposed to eruptions from material the person may not recognize as their own. This qualifies the public ease of Moon and Jupiter in the 10th rather than canceling it. The gain is transformative public force. The cost is instability around image, authority and direction. ✦
8.8 Two sovereigns rule a peregrine Sun between them
The Moon anchors the dispositor majority from the 10th, while Mars rules itself from the 2nd and receives the Sun by the 0.0 degree trine. In practice the chart is governed by public feeling and private will in cooperation and contest. The peregrine Sun is the part of identity that belongs to neither and drifts. The gain is balance when care and force alternate. The cost is inner stalemate when both claim command at once. ✦
Section 9
The Babylonian and Chaldean layer
9.1 The Chaldean scorecard confirms will first, feeling second, speech last
The scorecard ranks condition within this chart only: Mars plus 11, Moon plus 8, Venus plus 4, Saturn plus 2, Jupiter plus 1, Sun minus 5, Mercury minus 11. That confirms the astrology already read: Mars in domicile and the Moon in domicile deliver, while the peregrine Sun and the damaged Mercury struggle to translate. It also qualifies Jupiter, because exaltation is cut by retrograde, so the blessing is real but inward and slower. ✦
9.2 The Sun's face matches a self that leaves false success
The Sun at 1.8 degrees Pisces sits in the Saturn-ruled first face of Pisces, the Eight of Cups, called Abandoned Success. This is texture, not evidence, but it fits the peregrine Sun already described: identity is not secured by applause or inherited role. The image sharpens the cost named in the Sun section, a self that must walk away from empty forms to find a real one. It does not prove any event. ✦
9.3 Venus and Saturn share a face of perfected devotion under pressure
Venus at 26.6 degrees Pisces and Saturn at 28.7 degrees Pisces share the Mars-ruled third face of Pisces, the Ten of Cups, called Perfected Success. The symbolism rhymes with the Venus-Saturn conjunction: devotion is asked to become durable without becoming cold. It adds one nuance the astrology implied but did not state so neatly, that the test of love is completion rather than novelty. This remains symbolic overlay. ✦
9.4 Mars in its own face knows strength through loss
Mars at 1.8 degrees Scorpio occupies the first face of Scorpio, ruled by Mars itself, the Five of Cups, called Loss in Pleasure. That matches the strongest planet in the chart being acquainted with grief rather than simple triumph. The layer sharpens the challenge named earlier: force can guard worth so tightly that pleasure is mourned after it is defended. It adds no independent fact beyond the supplied dignity and decan. ✦
Section 10
The Tree of Life layer
10.1 Strong Mars and Moon carry the Tree, weak Sun and Mercury drop the center
On the Tree, Mars at Geburah scores plus 11 and the Moon at Yesod scores plus 8, while Venus at Netzach is strong at plus 4. The weak points are the Sun at Tiphareth minus 5 and Mercury at Hod minus 11. This mirrors the natal finding: strength sits in force and feeling, while integration and naming are strained. Outer-planet sefirot are author-dependent, so Uranus at Chokmah and Neptune at Kether are treated as unscored. ✦
10.2 Both side pillars leak load into the Middle Pillar
The Pillar of Mercy holds Jupiter mixed and Venus strong, with Uranus unscored. The Pillar of Severity holds Saturn mixed, Mars strong and Mercury weak. The Middle Pillar holds the Sun weak, the Moon strong and Neptune unscored. By the supplied rule, weakened outer pillars pass load to the Middle Pillar, which repeats the natal conclusion: integration runs through the Moon, the image-making mind, more than through speech. Reaching out can work through Venus, but pushing back is carried by Mars while Mercury cannot explain the push cleanly. ✦
10.3 The occupied paths repeat water taking form
Pisces, path 29 joining Netzach to Malkuth, holds the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn: desire brought down into form. Cancer, path 18 joining Binah to Geburah, holds the Moon and Jupiter: understanding carried into strength. Virgo, path 20, holds Uranus, Pluto and the Ascendant, while Scorpio holds Mars and Neptune. The path texture matches the chart's shape and adds nothing beyond it. ✦
Section 11
Strengths, without flattery
11.1 Self-possessed will with regenerative stamina
Mars in domicile in Scorpio is the strongest planet in the chart and is fused to identity by Sun trine Mars at 0.0 degrees. The strength is stamina, the ability to enter what others avoid and continue. It shows in work and defense of value more than in display. The cost is that the same force answers to no one and can control rather than act. ✦
11.2 Emotional intelligence that can hold a public role
The Moon in Cancer in the 10th is in domicile, in sect and angular, and most dispositor chains end there. The strength is instinct for need delivered where others can see it. It shows as timing, care and an ability to read atmosphere before facts. The cost is exposure, because the feeling life is not private when it leads the 10th. ✦
11.3 A real grand trine of imagination, compassion and beauty
Venus trine Jupiter at 0.9 degrees, Jupiter trine Neptune at 1.4 degrees and Venus trine Neptune at 2.2 degrees form a verified water grand trine. The strength is artistic and empathic flow that does not need forcing. It shows as receptivity to mood, image and unspoken pain. The cost is complacency: ease must be aimed, and the kite supplies the aim through Uranus. ✦
11.4 Capacity for deep bonding and aesthetic perception
Venus is exalted in Pisces, in sect, in the 7th, with a close trine to Jupiter. The strength is devotion that can perceive beauty and bond beyond transaction. It shows in loyalty, tenderness and the wish to relieve suffering. The cost belongs to the challenges chapter: Saturn and Uranus test the same bond, but the strength itself stands. ✦
11.5 Judgment that can hold a vision and build it
Jupiter exalted in Cancer links to Neptune, Saturn and Uranus by trine or sextile within clear orbs. The strength is meaning that can imagine, structure and adapt at once. It shows as protection that becomes opportunity when given time. The cost is that Jupiter is retrograde and out of sect, so confidence is self-built and slower than it looks. ✦
Section 12
Difficulties, without drama
12.1 Words fail the inner world
The chart ruler Mercury is in detriment and fall, under the Sun's beams, and opposed by Pluto at 1.3 degrees. The pattern is communication strained into evasion or intensity, with thinking prone to loops that keep digging after the answer is found. The likely cost is being misunderstood where precision matters most. The counterweight is supplied: Mercury holds its own term, and the wide Moon trine at 5.1 degrees gives background emotional translation. ✦
12.2 Love is bound to fear and the need for air
Out-of-sect Saturn, the chart's hardest planet, is conjunct Venus in the 7th at 2.2 degrees, while Uranus opposes Venus at 3.3 degrees. The pattern is devotion tested by dread of loss on one side and by the demand for freedom on the other. The likely cost lands in intimacy, where affection can feel conditional or crowded. The counterweight is supplied and real: Venus exalted trine Jupiter at 0.9 degrees keeps warmth present, but earned slowly. ✦
12.3 Public standing is hit from below
The Midheaven is squared by Uranus at 1.5 degrees and Pluto at 2.0 degrees from the 12th. The pattern is reputation and direction shaken by sudden eruptions from hidden material, with rebellion becoming event when it is not owned. The likely cost is instability around authority and image. The counterweight is supplied: exalted Jupiter in the 10th and the grand trine offer protection and recovery. ✦
12.4 Missing fire and air must be learned
With water 8 of 11 and no fire or air, detachment and spontaneous assertion are not native registers, and the mutable skew can dissolve boundaries into drift. The pattern is feeling everything first and finding distance later. The likely cost is overload, delay and porous decisions. The counterweights are supplied: Mars in domicile performs the fire-function by willpower, and the Virgo Ascendant supplies precision, though both are workarounds rather than replacements. ✦
Section 13
In short
13.1 The chart in one sentence
An ocean, water 8 of 11 with a four-planet Pisces stellium split across houses 6 and 7, run by two sovereigns, the Moon in Cancer and Mars in Scorpio, with Uranus on the Ascendant as the lightning rod. Feeling and will command. Articulation and stability are purchased at cost. Every chapter has described one part of that single mechanism. ✦
13.2 The symbolic layers confirm the same channel
The Chaldean scorecard confirms Mars first, Moon second and Mercury last, and the decans sharpen loss, devotion and abandoned false forms as texture. The Tree repeats the structure: weak Sun and Mercury pass load to a strong Moon, while Mars carries Severity. The final gesture is the kite: everything easy in Venus, Jupiter and Neptune is forced through Uranus on the Ascendant square the Midheaven. Reading gift and disturbance separately is the mistake the synthesis warns against. ✦
13.3 Key strengths
Will that endures and regenerates, from Mars in domicile fused to the Sun by a 0.0 degree trine. ✦
Public emotional intelligence, from the Moon in domicile in the 10th in a night chart. ✦
Imagination, compassion and aesthetic flow, from the verified Venus-Jupiter-Neptune grand trine. ✦
Capacity to bond and perceive beauty, from Venus exalted in the 7th in sect. ✦
Vision that can be structured, from Jupiter exalted with clear trines to Neptune and Saturn. ✦
13.4 Key weaknesses
Plain speech under strain, from Mercury in detriment and fall, under the beams, opposite Pluto. ✦
Love tested by fear and freedom, from Venus between Saturn and Uranus. ✦
Public direction shaken from hidden pressure, from Uranus and Pluto square the Midheaven. ✦
Boundaries prone to drift, from water dominance with no fire or air. ✦
A core identity that can drift between two sovereigns, from the peregrine Sun between Moon and Mars. ✦
Supporting chart factors
71 calculations behind the numbered markers
- Sun in Pisces 1.8°, house 6
- Moon in Cancer 13.4°, house 10
- Mercury in Pisces 18.5°, house 6
- Venus in Pisces 26.6°, house 7
- Mars in Scorpio 1.8°, house 2
- Jupiter in Cancer 25.7°, house 10, retrograde
- Saturn in Pisces 28.7°, house 7
- Uranus in Virgo 23.2°, house 12, retrograde
- Neptune in Scorpio 24.3°, house 3
- Pluto in Virgo 19.8°, house 12, retrograde
- Asc in Virgo 23.4°
- Mc in Gemini 21.8°
- Sun trine Mars, orb 0.01, separating
- Asc conjunction Uranus, orb 0.10
- Venus trine Jupiter, orb 0.87, separating
- Asc sextile Neptune, orb 1.00
- Uranus sextile Neptune, orb 1.10, separating
- Mercury opposition Pluto, orb 1.33, applying
- Jupiter trine Neptune, orb 1.35, applying
- Mc square Uranus, orb 1.46
- Mc square Pluto, orb 2.00
- Venus conjunction Saturn, orb 2.17, applying
- Venus trine Neptune, orb 2.21, separating
- Jupiter sextile Uranus, orb 2.44, applying
- Jupiter trine Saturn, orb 3.03, separating
- Venus opposition Uranus, orb 3.31, separating
- Uranus conjunction Pluto, orb 3.46, applying
- Moon trine Mercury, orb 5.07, applying
- Sign stellium in Pisces: Mercury, Saturn, Sun, Venus. At least three of Sun through Pluto share a sign under this rule; nodes and calculated points are excluded. This membership holds throughout the checked birth period. Derived from the listed sign placements, not independent corroboration or a dominance score.
- Traditional chart ruler Mercury: ruler of Ascendant sign Virgo. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from the Ascendant sign, not independent evidence or a dominance score.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Sun in Pisces -> Jupiter in Cancer -> Moon in Cancer. Ends at self-ruled Moon. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Moon in Cancer. Ends at self-ruled Moon. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Mercury in Pisces -> Jupiter in Cancer -> Moon in Cancer. Ends at self-ruled Moon. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Venus in Pisces -> Jupiter in Cancer -> Moon in Cancer. Ends at self-ruled Moon. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Mars in Scorpio. Ends at self-ruled Mars. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Jupiter in Cancer -> Moon in Cancer. Ends at self-ruled Moon. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Saturn in Pisces -> Jupiter in Cancer -> Moon in Cancer. Ends at self-ruled Moon. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Uranus in Virgo -> Mercury in Pisces -> Jupiter in Cancer -> Moon in Cancer. Ends at self-ruled Moon. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Neptune in Scorpio -> Mars in Scorpio. Ends at self-ruled Mars. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Traditional dispositor chain: Pluto in Virgo -> Mercury in Pisces -> Jupiter in Cancer -> Moon in Cancer. Ends at self-ruled Moon. This alone does not establish a sole dispositor for the whole chart. traditional-rulership-v1. Derived from these same planetary signs, not independent corroboration.
- Night chart: the Sun is below the horizon, in house 6. Sect light Moon. Benefic of sect Venus, malefic of sect Mars. Out-of-sect benefic Jupiter, out-of-sect malefic Saturn (the hardest classical planet in this chart). Rule: Hellenistic sect by the Sun's house.
- Sun at 1.8° Pisces; no sign dignity or debility; sign ruler Jupiter; term ruler Venus; face ruler Saturn; triplicity rulers Venus, Mars, Moon; peregrine: holds none of domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term or face; out of sect. Rules: traditional sign dignities, Egyptian terms, Chaldean faces, Dorothean triplicities.
- Moon at 13.4° Cancer; in domicile; sign ruler Moon; term ruler Mercury; face ruler Mercury; triplicity rulers Venus, Mars, Moon (holds triplicity); in sect. Rules: traditional sign dignities, Egyptian terms, Chaldean faces, Dorothean triplicities.
- Mercury at 18.5° Pisces; in detriment and fall; sign ruler Jupiter; term ruler Mercury (its own term); face ruler Jupiter; triplicity rulers Venus, Mars, Moon. Rules: traditional sign dignities, Egyptian terms, Chaldean faces, Dorothean triplicities.
- Venus at 26.6° Pisces; in exaltation; sign ruler Jupiter; term ruler Mars; face ruler Mars; triplicity rulers Venus, Mars, Moon; in sect. Rules: traditional sign dignities, Egyptian terms, Chaldean faces, Dorothean triplicities.
- Mars at 1.8° Scorpio; in domicile; sign ruler Mars; term ruler Mars (its own term); face ruler Mars (its own face); triplicity rulers Venus, Mars, Moon (holds triplicity); in sect. Rules: traditional sign dignities, Egyptian terms, Chaldean faces, Dorothean triplicities.
- Jupiter at 25.7° Cancer; in exaltation; sign ruler Moon; term ruler Jupiter (its own term); face ruler Moon; triplicity rulers Venus, Mars, Moon; out of sect. Rules: traditional sign dignities, Egyptian terms, Chaldean faces, Dorothean triplicities.
- Saturn at 28.7° Pisces; no sign dignity or debility; sign ruler Jupiter; term ruler Saturn (its own term); face ruler Mars; triplicity rulers Venus, Mars, Moon; out of sect. Rules: traditional sign dignities, Egyptian terms, Chaldean faces, Dorothean triplicities.
- Mercury is 16.6° from the Sun: under the Sun's beams (within 17 degrees, mildly obscured); evening star, setting after the Sun.
- Element count over the ten planets and the Ascendant: water 8, earth 3. Missing elements: fire, air.
- Mode count over the ten planets and the Ascendant: mutable 7, cardinal 2, fixed 2.
- Planets in angular houses (1, 4, 7, 10), the most visible and active positions: Moon (house 10), Venus (house 7), Jupiter (house 10), Saturn (house 7). Being in an angular house is not the same as being close to an angle.
- Sun at 1.8° Pisces is in the first decan of Pisces, ruled by Saturn in the Chaldean order of faces. Golden Dawn tarot minor: Eight of Cups, "Abandoned Success". Source: Chaldean decan faces and the Golden Dawn Book T attributions; symbolic texture, not separate evidence.
- Venus at 26.6° Pisces is in the third decan of Pisces, ruled by Mars in the Chaldean order of faces. Golden Dawn tarot minor: Ten of Cups, "Perfected Success". Source: Chaldean decan faces and the Golden Dawn Book T attributions; symbolic texture, not separate evidence.
- Mars at 1.8° Scorpio is in the first decan of Scorpio, ruled by Mars in the Chaldean order of faces (its own face). Golden Dawn tarot minor: Five of Cups, "Loss in Pleasure". Source: Chaldean decan faces and the Golden Dawn Book T attributions; symbolic texture, not separate evidence.
- Saturn at 28.7° Pisces is in the third decan of Pisces, ruled by Mars in the Chaldean order of faces. Golden Dawn tarot minor: Ten of Cups, "Perfected Success". Source: Chaldean decan faces and the Golden Dawn Book T attributions; symbolic texture, not separate evidence.
- Dignity scorecard in the Chaldean order (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, slowest to fastest): Saturn +2 (own term +2); Jupiter +1 (exaltation +4, own term +2, retrograde -5); Mars +11 (domicile +5, triplicity +3, own term +2, own face +1); Sun -5 (peregrine -5); Venus +4 (exaltation +4); Mercury -11 (own term +2, detriment -5, fall -4, under the beams -4); Moon +8 (domicile +5, triplicity +3). Rule: Lilly-style points for domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, face, peregrine, detriment and fall, plus cazimi, combustion, the Sun's beams and retrograde motion. A score ranks condition within this chart only.
- Saturn corresponds to Binah (understanding and form) on the Pillar of Severity; Saturn is 28.7° Pisces, condition mixed (score +2: own term). Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Jupiter corresponds to Chesed (mercy and expansion) on the Pillar of Mercy; Jupiter is 25.7° Cancer, condition mixed (score +1: exaltation, own term, retrograde). Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Mars corresponds to Geburah (strength and severity) on the Pillar of Severity; Mars is 1.8° Scorpio, condition strong (score +11: domicile, triplicity, own term, own face). Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Sun corresponds to Tiphareth (the centre and integration) on the Middle Pillar; Sun is 1.8° Pisces, condition weak (score -5: peregrine). Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Venus corresponds to Netzach (desire and attraction) on the Pillar of Mercy; Venus is 26.6° Pisces, condition strong (score +4: exaltation). Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Mercury corresponds to Hod (intellect and form-giving) on the Pillar of Severity; Mercury is 18.5° Pisces, condition weak (score -11: own term, detriment, fall, under the beams). Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Moon corresponds to Yesod (foundation and the image-making mind) on the Middle Pillar; Moon is 13.4° Cancer, condition strong (score +8: domicile, triplicity). Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Uranus corresponds to Chokmah (wisdom and raw force) on the Pillar of Mercy; Uranus is 23.2° Virgo, no traditional condition score, as an outer planet. Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions; outer-planet attributions differ between authors. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Neptune corresponds to Kether (the crown) on the Middle Pillar; Neptune is 24.3° Scorpio, no traditional condition score, as an outer planet. Source: Golden Dawn planet and sefirah attributions; outer-planet attributions differ between authors. A structural metaphor, not separate evidence.
- Pillar balance from the planet conditions above. Pillar of Mercy: Chesed/Jupiter mixed, Netzach/Venus strong, Chokmah/Uranus unscored. Pillar of Severity: Binah/Saturn mixed, Geburah/Mars strong, Hod/Mercury weak. Middle Pillar: Tiphareth/Sun weak, Yesod/Moon strong, Kether/Neptune unscored. Rule: a pillar whose classical planets are weak passes its load to the Middle Pillar in the Golden Dawn reading of the Tree.
- Pisces holds Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn. Golden Dawn path 29, the letter Qoph, joining Netzach to Malkuth. Source: Golden Dawn sign and path attributions; symbolic texture, not separate evidence.
- Cancer holds Moon, Jupiter. Golden Dawn path 18, the letter Cheth, joining Binah to Geburah. Source: Golden Dawn sign and path attributions; symbolic texture, not separate evidence.
- Scorpio holds Mars, Neptune. Golden Dawn path 24, the letter Nun, joining Tiphareth to Netzach. Source: Golden Dawn sign and path attributions; symbolic texture, not separate evidence.
- Virgo holds Uranus, Pluto, Ascendant. Golden Dawn path 20, the letter Yod, joining Chesed to Tiphareth. Source: Golden Dawn sign and path attributions; symbolic texture, not separate evidence.
Kurt Cobain's chart data
Your chart, layer by layer
How to read each placement
Every placement has up to 4 layers. Read them in order, and each one narrows the meaning.
- Planetwhat part of you
- Signhow it behaves
- Housewhere in life it shows
- Aspectswhat other planets change
Sun in Pisces, 6th housepurpose and identity
The planet
The Sun is your core sense of self: what gives you purpose and what you want to become.
In Pisces water sign
Sun in Pisces is associated with finding purpose through imagination and compassion. Making art or supporting a cause can give an ideal a practical expression. The challenge is staying clear about your own wishes while responding to other people.
Sun in Pisces explainedIn the 6th house daily work and routines
Everyday responsibilities and health-related habits. Sun in the 6th house connects personal purpose with daily work and service.
- House 6 begins
- 27°49′ Aquarius
- Your Sun
- 1°48′ Pisces
- House 7 begins
- 23°21′ Pisces
Your Sun falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Sun trine Mars Close, so you feel it strongly · 0.0°
Your Sun flows easily with your Mars. Here, purpose and identity meet drive and action. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspect
Moon in Cancer, 10th housefeelings and needs
The planet
The Moon is your emotional side: what you need to feel safe, and how you react before you think.
In Cancer water sign
A Cancer Moon is associated with seeking comfort through familiar people and places. Reconnecting with someone who knows your history can matter after an unsettling change. The same attachment can make it difficult to accept that a relationship or home has changed.
Moon in Cancer explainedIn the 10th house public role
Career, reputation and responsibilities visible to others. Moon in the 10th house associates emotional investment with work, reputation and responsibilities visible to others.
- House 10 begins
- 21°47′ Gemini
- Your Moon
- 13°23′ Cancer
- House 11 begins
- 27°00′ Cancer
Your Moon falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Moon trine Mercury Wide, so it works in the background · 5.1°
Your Moon flows easily with your Mercury. Here, feelings and needs meet thinking and talking. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspect
Rising sign in Virgohow you meet the world
The point
Your rising sign, or Ascendant, is the sign that was rising on the eastern horizon when you were born. It describes your first reaction to new people and situations.
In Virgo
Virgo rising brings attention to details and what needs adjustment. Its symbolism concerns understanding how something works through practical observation. Mercury adds the style of analysis and explanation.
Your chart ruler
Virgo is ruled by Mercury, so Mercury is your chart ruler. Its placement in Pisces, in the 6th house of daily work and routines, colours how your whole chart is expressed.
Mercury in Pisces, 6th housethinking and talking
The planet
Mercury is how you think, learn and talk: the way you take in information and explain it.
In Pisces water sign
Mercury in Pisces is often interpreted through imagination and associative thought. Consider how an image or feeling becomes an explanation another person can understand and check.
Mercury in Pisces explainedIn the 6th house daily work and routines
Everyday responsibilities and health-related habits. Mercury in the 6th house connects thinking with daily tasks and useful methods. Planning a sequence, keeping records and explaining a process are concrete ways to understand the symbolism.
- House 6 begins
- 27°49′ Aquarius
- Your Mercury
- 18°27′ Pisces
- House 7 begins
- 23°21′ Pisces
Your Mercury falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Mercury opposition Pluto Close, so you feel it strongly · 1.3°
Your Mercury is pulled against your Pluto. Here, thinking and talking meet power and change. This is a point of tension. It can feel uncomfortable, and it is also where a lot of growth and drive come from.
About this aspectMercury trine Moon Wide, so it works in the background · 5.1°
Your Mercury flows easily with your Moon. Here, thinking and talking meet feelings and needs. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspect
Venus in Pisces, 7th houselove and values
The planet
Venus is what you love and value: your taste, how you show affection and what attracts you.
In Pisces water sign
Venus in Pisces connects affection with imagination and sympathy. Pisces is mutable water: the interpretation emphasizes responsiveness to another person and the pleasure found in art or shared feeling.
Venus in Pisces explainedIn the 7th house one-to-one relationships
Partnerships and agreements between people. Venus in the 7th house connects affection and shared values with direct partnership. The placement concerns how agreement is sought with an equal, including a spouse or business partner.
- House 7 begins
- 23°21′ Pisces
- Your Venus
- 26°33′ Pisces
- House 8 begins
- 17°29′ Aries
Your Venus falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Venus trine Jupiter Close, so you feel it strongly · 0.9°
Your Venus flows easily with your Jupiter. Here, love and values meet growth and luck. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectVenus conjunction Saturn Clear and noticeable · 2.2°
Your Venus is fused with your Saturn. Here, love and values meet discipline and limits. The two work as one. They strengthen each other, and it can be hard to tell them apart.
About this aspectVenus trine Neptune Clear and noticeable · 2.2°
Your Venus flows easily with your Neptune. Here, love and values meet imagination and ideals. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectVenus opposition Uranus Clear and noticeable · 3.3°
Your Venus is pulled against your Uranus. Here, love and values meet change and freedom. This is a point of tension. It can feel uncomfortable, and it is also where a lot of growth and drive come from.
About this aspect
Mars in Scorpio, 2nd housedrive and action
The planet
Mars is your drive: how you go after what you want, handle anger and use your energy.
In Scorpio water sign
Mars rules Scorpio, where effort is interpreted through concentration and sustained investment. Scorpio is fixed water: the symbolism concerns pursuing something that has acquired personal significance.
Mars in Scorpio explainedIn the 2nd house personal resources
Possessions, income and what you value. Mars in the 2nd house connects action with acquiring, using and protecting personal resources. The house gives Mars a practical subject: what takes effort to obtain, and what feels worth defending.
- House 2 begins
- 17°29′ Libra
- Your Mars
- 1°48′ Scorpio
- House 3 begins
- 17°10′ Scorpio
Your Mars falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Mars trine Sun Close, so you feel it strongly · 0.0°
Your Mars flows easily with your Sun. Here, drive and action meet purpose and identity. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspect
Jupiter in Cancer, 10th housegrowth and luck · retrograde
The planet
Jupiter is where you grow: what makes you hopeful, generous and willing to take a chance.
In Cancer water sign
Jupiter in Cancer connects growth with care and belonging. Cancer initiates around what feels worth protecting, so expansion is interpreted through making room for people or sustaining a shared home.
Jupiter in Cancer explainedIn the 10th house public role
Career, reputation and responsibilities visible to others. Jupiter in the 10th house connects expansion with a visible role. Teaching publicly, extending a project or considering the responsibilities of greater authority gives this placement a concrete setting.
- House 10 begins
- 21°47′ Gemini
- Your Jupiter
- 25°41′ Cancer
- House 11 begins
- 27°00′ Cancer
Your Jupiter falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Jupiter trine Venus Close, so you feel it strongly · 0.9°
Your Jupiter flows easily with your Venus. Here, growth and luck meet love and values. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectJupiter trine Neptune Close, so you feel it strongly · 1.3°
Your Jupiter flows easily with your Neptune. Here, growth and luck meet imagination and ideals. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectJupiter sextile your rising sign Clear and noticeable · 2.3°
Your Jupiter gets help from your rising sign. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectJupiter sextile Uranus Clear and noticeable · 2.4°
Your Jupiter gets help from your Uranus. Here, growth and luck meet change and freedom. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectJupiter trine Saturn Clear and noticeable · 3.0°
Your Jupiter flows easily with your Saturn. Here, growth and luck meet discipline and limits. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspect
Saturn in Pisces, 7th housediscipline and limits
The planet
Saturn is where life asks for effort: your sense of duty, your fears and what you build slowly.
In Pisces water sign
Saturn in Pisces connects responsibility with imagination and care. Pisces responds to changing experience, while Saturn asks what can be given a dependable form.
Saturn in Pisces explainedIn the 7th house one-to-one relationships
Partnerships and agreements between people. Saturn in the 7th house connects responsibility with direct partnership. Agreements about what each person can expect give Saturn a setting in a relationship between equals.
- House 7 begins
- 23°21′ Pisces
- Your Saturn
- 28°43′ Pisces
- House 8 begins
- 17°29′ Aries
Your Saturn falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Saturn conjunction Venus Clear and noticeable · 2.2°
Your Saturn is fused with your Venus. Here, discipline and limits meet love and values. The two work as one. They strengthen each other, and it can be hard to tell them apart.
About this aspectSaturn trine Jupiter Clear and noticeable · 3.0°
Your Saturn flows easily with your Jupiter. Here, discipline and limits meet growth and luck. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspect
Uranus in Virgo, 12th housechange and freedom · retrograde
The planet
Uranus is your need for freedom and change. Its sign is shared by everyone born within about 7 years, so its house and contacts say more about you.
In Virgo earth sign
Uranus in Virgo is a generational symbol of work and practical methods. Its personal relevance comes from the house it occupies and its calculated contacts with other chart factors.
Uranus in Virgo explainedIn the 12th house solitude and private concerns
Retreat, hidden matters and patterns outside everyday awareness. Uranus in the 12th house connects change with private work and retreat from ordinary participation. Developing an alternative approach before sharing it gives this modern symbolism a concrete setting.
- House 12 begins
- 27°49′ Leo
- Your Uranus
- 23°14′ Virgo
- House 1 begins
- 23°21′ Virgo
Your Uranus falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Uranus conjunction your rising sign Close, so you feel it strongly · 0.1°
Your Uranus is fused with your rising sign. The two work as one. They strengthen each other, and it can be hard to tell them apart.
About this aspectUranus sextile Neptune Close, so you feel it strongly · 1.1°
Your Uranus gets help from your Neptune. Here, change and freedom meet imagination and ideals. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectUranus square your Midheaven Close, so you feel it strongly · 1.5°
Your Uranus clashes with your Midheaven. This is a point of tension. It can feel uncomfortable, and it is also where a lot of growth and drive come from.
About this aspectUranus sextile Jupiter Clear and noticeable · 2.4°
Your Uranus gets help from your Jupiter. Here, change and freedom meet growth and luck. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectUranus opposition Venus Clear and noticeable · 3.3°
Your Uranus is pulled against your Venus. Here, change and freedom meet love and values. This is a point of tension. It can feel uncomfortable, and it is also where a lot of growth and drive come from.
About this aspectUranus conjunction Pluto Clear and noticeable · 3.5°
Your Uranus is fused with your Pluto. Here, change and freedom meet power and change. The two work as one. They strengthen each other, and it can be hard to tell them apart.
About this aspect
Neptune in Scorpio, 3rd houseimagination and ideals
The planet
Neptune is imagination, ideals and the wish to escape. Its sign is shared by a whole generation, so its house and contacts say more about you.
In Scorpio water sign
Neptune in Scorpio is a generational symbol of ideals of depth and intimacy. Its personal relevance comes from the house it occupies and its calculated contacts with other chart factors.
Neptune in Scorpio explainedIn the 3rd house everyday communication
Learning, siblings and connections close to home. Neptune in the 3rd house connects imagination with familiar learning and conversation. Images and associations can carry meaning alongside literal words, making the distinction between an impression and an explicit message useful.
- House 3 begins
- 17°10′ Scorpio
- Your Neptune
- 24°20′ Scorpio
- House 4 begins
- 21°47′ Sagittarius
Your Neptune falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Neptune sextile your rising sign Close, so you feel it strongly · 1.0°
Your Neptune gets help from your rising sign. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectNeptune sextile Uranus Close, so you feel it strongly · 1.1°
Your Neptune gets help from your Uranus. Here, imagination and ideals meet change and freedom. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectNeptune trine Jupiter Close, so you feel it strongly · 1.3°
Your Neptune flows easily with your Jupiter. Here, imagination and ideals meet growth and luck. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspectNeptune trine Venus Clear and noticeable · 2.2°
Your Neptune flows easily with your Venus. Here, imagination and ideals meet love and values. This is a supportive link. It comes naturally, so it can be easy to take for granted.
About this aspect
Pluto in Virgo, 12th housepower and change · retrograde
The planet
Pluto is about power, control and deep change. Its sign is shared by a whole generation, so its house and contacts say more about you.
In Virgo earth sign
Pluto in Virgo is a generational symbol of work and systems of control. Its personal relevance comes from the house it occupies and its calculated contacts with other chart factors.
Pluto in Virgo explainedIn the 12th house solitude and private concerns
Retreat, hidden matters and patterns outside everyday awareness. Pluto in the 12th house connects sustained attention with experiences outside ordinary public view. Private investigation or work developed in solitude gives this modern interpretation a concrete setting.
- House 12 begins
- 27°49′ Leo
- Your Pluto
- 19°47′ Virgo
- House 1 begins
- 23°21′ Virgo
Your Pluto falls between these two house boundaries, so it is in this house even if the sign at the start of the house is different.
Aspects closest first
Pluto opposition Mercury Close, so you feel it strongly · 1.3°
Your Pluto is pulled against your Mercury. Here, power and change meet thinking and talking. This is a point of tension. It can feel uncomfortable, and it is also where a lot of growth and drive come from.
About this aspectPluto square your Midheaven Close, so you feel it strongly · 2.0°
Your Pluto clashes with your Midheaven. This is a point of tension. It can feel uncomfortable, and it is also where a lot of growth and drive come from.
About this aspectPluto conjunction Uranus Clear and noticeable · 3.5°
Your Pluto is fused with your Uranus. Here, power and change meet change and freedom. The two work as one. They strengthen each other, and it can be hard to tell them apart.
About this aspect
These layers explain each placement on its own. Your personal reading puts them together, so you can see how they change one another.
House signs and placements
Houses describe areas of life in astrology. Each house starts at the cusp shown below and ends at the next cusp.
Traditional rulers follow the sign on each house’s starting cusp. Follow the ruler below to see which other house it connects to.
Your 12 Placidus houses
1st houseSelf and appearance
23°21′ Virgo
Personal presence and how you present yourself.
Bodies and pointsNo listed bodies
Traditional ruler · Virgo2nd housePersonal resources
17°29′ Libra
Possessions, income and what you value.
Bodies and pointsTraditional ruler · Libra3rd houseEveryday communication
17°10′ Scorpio
Learning, siblings and connections close to home.
Bodies and pointsTraditional ruler · Scorpio4th houseHome and family
21°47′ Sagittarius
Your private life and family background.
Bodies and pointsNo listed bodies
Traditional ruler · Sagittarius5th houseCreative expression
27°00′ Capricorn
Play, enjoyment, romance and children.
Bodies and pointsNo listed bodies
Traditional ruler · Capricorn6th houseDaily work and routines
27°49′ Aquarius
Everyday responsibilities and health-related habits.
Traditional ruler · Aquarius7th houseOne-to-one relationships
23°21′ Pisces
Partnerships and agreements between people.
Traditional ruler · Pisces8th houseShared resources
17°29′ Aries
Joint finances, inheritance and experiences of loss.
Bodies and pointsNorth Node (true)
Traditional ruler · Aries9th houseBeliefs and wider learning
17°10′ Taurus
Higher education, philosophy and travel beyond familiar surroundings.
Bodies and pointsNo listed bodies
Traditional ruler · Taurus10th housePublic role
21°47′ Gemini
Career, reputation and responsibilities visible to others.
Traditional ruler · Gemini11th houseGroups and aspirations
27°00′ Cancer
Friendship networks, communities and hopes for the future.
Bodies and pointsNo listed bodies
Traditional ruler · Cancer12th houseSolitude and private concerns
27°49′ Leo
Retreat, hidden matters and patterns outside everyday awareness.
Traditional ruler · Leo
A house with no listed bodies still has a sign and a planetary ruler. In astrology, it does not mean that this area of life is missing. Read the house's sign and its ruler's placement for more context.
Explore aspects 17 contacts
Aspects describe angles between chart positions. A square is 90°; a square with a 2° orb is 2° away from that angle.
A smaller orb means a closer geometric match. Applying means the orb is shrinking at birth; separating means it is widening.
Aspects, closest first
Sun trine Mars
Trine · 120° angle
- Orb
- 0°01′
- Orb limit
- 6°
- Motion
- Separating
Ascendant conjunct Uranus
Conjunction · 0° angle
- Orb
- 0°06′
- Orb limit
- 3°
- Motion
- Not reported
Venus trine Jupiter
Trine · 120° angle
- Orb
- 0°52′
- Orb limit
- 5°
- Motion
- Separating
Ascendant sextile Neptune
Sextile · 60° angle
- Orb
- 1°00′
- Orb limit
- 3°
- Motion
- Not reported
Uranus sextile Neptune
Sextile · 60° angle
- Orb
- 1°06′
- Orb limit
- 4°
- Motion
- Separating
Mercury opposite Pluto
Opposition · 180° angle
- Orb
- 1°20′
- Orb limit
- 4°
- Motion
- Applying
Jupiter trine Neptune
Trine · 120° angle
- Orb
- 1°21′
- Orb limit
- 4°
- Motion
- Applying
Midheaven square Uranus
Square · 90° angle
- Orb
- 1°28′
- Orb limit
- 3°
- Motion
- Not reported
Midheaven square Pluto
Square · 90° angle
- Orb
- 2°00′
- Orb limit
- 3°
- Motion
- Not reported
Venus conjunct Saturn
Conjunction · 0° angle
- Orb
- 2°10′
- Orb limit
- 5°
- Motion
- Applying
Venus trine Neptune
Trine · 120° angle
- Orb
- 2°13′
- Orb limit
- 4°
- Motion
- Separating
Ascendant sextile Jupiter
Sextile · 60° angle
- Orb
- 2°20′
- Orb limit
- 3°
- Motion
- Not reported
Jupiter sextile Uranus
Sextile · 60° angle
- Orb
- 2°27′
- Orb limit
- 4°
- Motion
- Applying
Jupiter trine Saturn
Trine · 120° angle
- Orb
- 3°02′
- Orb limit
- 5°
- Motion
- Separating
Venus opposite Uranus
Opposition · 180° angle
- Orb
- 3°18′
- Orb limit
- 4°
- Motion
- Separating
Uranus conjunct Pluto
Conjunction · 0° angle
- Orb
- 3°27′
- Orb limit
- 4°
- Motion
- Applying
Moon trine Mercury
Trine · 120° angle
- Orb
- 5°04′
- Orb limit
- 6°
- Motion
- Applying
Questions about Kurt Cobain's chart
What is Kurt Cobain's Sun sign?
Kurt Cobain's Sun is in Pisces, at 1.8°. The Sun sign describes the core drive and sense of purpose.
What is Kurt Cobain's Moon sign?
Kurt Cobain's Moon is in Cancer, at 13.4°. The Moon describes emotional needs and what brings a sense of safety.
What is Kurt Cobain's rising sign?
Kurt Cobain has Virgo rising, with the Ascendant at 23.4°. The rising sign needs an exact birth time, and this one comes from a time rated AA.
What time was Kurt Cobain born?
Kurt Cobain was born at 7:38 pm local time on 20 February 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington, United States. Astro-Databank rates the time AA, from a birth certificate or birth record.
Where the birth data comes from
The birth date matches Kurt Cobain's Wikipedia article. The time is from a birth certificate or birth record: Birth certificate shown in the documentary Montage of Heck (2015), quoted by Roman Craft. Astro-Databank's Rodden rating for it is AA.