Born: November 27, 1942, 10:15 AM local time, Seattle, Washington, USA. Source: Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA.
The AA rating means the birth time comes from a birth certificate or an official record, so the rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses below can be read with confidence. Open Jimi Hendrix's chart on Astrolas to follow along.
One cluster defines the chart. The Sun, Mercury and Venus all sit within a few degrees of each other in lSagittarius, the sign of reaching outward, spanning the 11th and 12th houses. The Astrolas library reads that stack as a restless, exploring mind paired with real creative magnetism, and both qualities run through a career that started as a backing guitarist on the road and ended as one of the most studied electric guitarists in popular music.
Three more features back that up: the Moon conjunct Jupiter in Cancer in the 7th house, a Scorpio Mars driving the 10th house of career, and Saturn and Uranus both in Gemini, pulling in opposite directions between duty and reinvention.
Sun, Mercury and Venus together in Sagittarius
The Sun sits at 4ยฐ50' Sagittarius and Mercury at 2ยฐ57' Sagittarius, both in the 11th house, with Venus close behind at 7ยฐ36' Sagittarius just over the line in the 12th. Sun conjunct Mercury, orb 1ยฐ53', and Sun conjunct Venus, orb 2ยฐ46', are two of the tightest contacts anywhere in the chart.
The Astrolas library reads Sun conjunct Mercury as a lucid, fast-moving mind with real talent for speaking and writing, prone to anxiety and a narrowed view when thought turns too far inward around the self. It reads Sun conjunct Venus as magnetic and creative, often carrying genuine artistic talent, with a strong need for closeness and a tendency to overspend on whatever, or whoever, it loves.
The library's Sagittarius Sun describes an optimistic, restless nature that feels most alive while exploring and experiencing, suited to work built on ideas and communication rather than routine, with a weak spot for promising more than it can deliver on the small details. Mercury in the same sign reads as a quick, blunt, straightforward mind driven by a lifelong appetite for new knowledge. Both sit in the 11th house, which the library ties to friendship, shared ideals and group endeavor, valuing purpose there over personal recognition. Venus in the 12th, just past that line, reads as a selfless, almost hidden depth of feeling: real artistic flair and intuition, paired with a pull toward withdrawing after hurt rather than naming it outright.
He left Seattle for the road in his early twenties, backing touring acts including the Isley Brothers and Little Richard before he had a name of his own. His own reputation came later, in London, where he formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell in 1966.
Moon conjunct Jupiter in Cancer, seventh house
The Moon at 28ยฐ05' fCancer and Jupiter at 24ยฐ52' Cancer, retrograde, sit together in the 7th house, a conjunction with an orb of 3ยฐ13'. The Astrolas library reads the pair as warm, optimistic and genuinely compassionate, a placement that feels best while expanding its world through knowledge or new experience, with inner security built more on learning and belief than on material things.
The library's Cancer Moon is the Moon in its own sign: deep feeling, a sharp memory for impressions, and real difficulty showing emotion outright even while it runs the deepest layer of the personality. The 7th house adds that most people with the Moon there want a steady partner and stay unusually attuned to the moods of whoever stands opposite them. Jupiter retrograde in the same house still brings luck through other people, the library says, but filtered through caution, trust that builds slowly rather than all at once.
The Experience, the trio that carried him to fame, was exactly that kind of close three-person partnership, built in a matter of weeks with two musicians he had only just met in London.
Mars in Scorpio, tenth house: the career edge
Mars sits at 17ยฐ31' Scorpio in the 10th house, the house of career and public standing. The Astrolas library's Scorpio Mars describes an intense, enduring energy: iron will, total focus and a stubbornness that becomes a formidable advantage once a goal is fixed. In the 10th house, the library reads that drive as ambition aimed squarely at reaching the top, paired with decisive, practical problem-solving, and a caution against the impatience that invites conflict with whoever sits above.
He built that reputation on stage rather than in interviews, through a handful of performances still used to define him: setting his guitar alight at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and closing the Woodstock festival in 1969 with a solo instrumental take on "The Star-Spangled Banner." Electric Ladyland, the double album he released in 1968, became his best-selling record.
Saturn and Uranus in Gemini: duty and reinvention
Saturn at 9ยฐ22' and Uranus at 2ยฐ28' both sit in dGemini, Saturn retrograde in the 6th house and Uranus retrograde in the 5th. The library's Saturn in Gemini sharpens a quick intellect with discipline and focus, suited to fields built on communication and craft, with a caution against turning sharp-tongued or too hard on itself. In the 6th house of daily work, it reads as a strong pull toward duty, often taking on tasks nobody else wants and keeping professional relationships carefully separate from personal ones.
Uranus in Gemini is a generational signature, since everyone born in these years carries it, marking an era of reform in communication and thought. Personally, through the 5th house of creative self-expression, retrograde Uranus reads as a quiet, unconventional pursuit of novelty: curiosity about new tools and technology, an amateur, self-taught creative streak, with ideas that flare quickly and sometimes end before they are finished.
He is remembered less for conventional technique than for rebuilding what an electric guitar could sound like, through feedback, distortion and a wah-wah pedal pushed past its intended use, the kind of work that needed both the discipline to repeat a sound until it held together and the restlessness to abandon it for something stranger.
Neptune in Libra and Pluto in Leo: two generational signatures
Neptune sits at 1ยฐ40' Libra in the 9th house, and PPluto at 7ยฐ11' Leo, retrograde, in the 8th. Both are generational placements, carried by everyone born in these years rather than personal to him alone. The Astrolas library ties Neptune in Libra to a generation idealistic about fairness, love and cooperation, the era of the United Nations' founding and the anti-war movement of the 1960s. It ties Pluto in Leo to the generation shaped by the Second World War and the early rise of celebrity culture, driven by ambition and self-expression.
The 9th house makes the Neptune placement personal: the library reads a strong pull toward spiritual and far-reaching ideas, with intuition as a real strength even when it idealizes more than it verifies, and an ability to inspire others through emotional depth rather than outward polish. The 8th house does the same for Pluto, reading an all-or-nothing intensity and a capacity for real transformation, alongside a depth of character that can turn private and withdrawn just as easily as it turns magnetic.
His career unfolded entirely inside the counterculture moment he is still identified with, playing constantly across the US, the UK and continental Europe for only a few years before it ended.
Four aspects inside one degree, and angles still outside the library
Four contacts in this chart sit inside a single degree of exactness, tighter than anything else here: Venus trine Pluto, orb 0ยฐ25', the tightest link in the whole chart, Mercury opposite Uranus, orb 0ยฐ29', Jupiter square the Midheaven, orb 0ยฐ40', and Uranus trine Neptune, orb 0ยฐ48'. None of them has a library entry yet, so this piece won't build a reading on what they mean, only note that they sit there, exact almost to the minute.
The birth record also puts the Ascendant at 24ยฐ41' Sagittarius, the Descendant at 24ยฐ41' Gemini, the Midheaven at 24ยฐ12' Libra and the IC at 24ยฐ12' Aries. The Astrolas library doesn't yet have entries for this rising sign or this Midheaven sign either.
What the chart adds up to
The chart doesn't explain where the sound came from. What it shows is a repeated pairing of reach and intensity: three planets stacked in Sagittarius pushing outward, a Scorpio Mars and a Leo Pluto driving the same chart from underneath.
He died in London in September 1970, at the age of 27, just under four years after the Experience first formed.
Open Jimi Hendrix's chart on Astrolas, look at the Sagittarius cluster in the 11th and 12th houses, then compare it with a chart you know.
Questions people ask
What is Jimi Hendrix's rising sign?
Sagittarius, at 24ยฐ41', based on his AA-rated birth time of 10:15 AM. The Astrolas library doesn't yet have a specific entry for this Ascendant.
What are Jimi Hendrix's Sun and Moon signs?
His Sun is at 4ยฐ50' Sagittarius in the 11th house, conjunct Mercury and close to Venus in the same sign. His Moon is at 28ยฐ05' Cancer in the 7th house, conjunct a retrograde Jupiter.
What is the strongest feature of his chart?
The Sun, Mercury and Venus together in Sagittarius, spanning the 11th and 12th houses. The Astrolas library ties that stack to a restless, exploring mind and real creative magnetism, the combination behind both his early years on the road and his later reputation.