Count Basie birth chart

August 21, 1904
Red Bank, New Jersey, United States
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunLeo

☽︎MoonCapricorn

Main elementEarth 51%

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Only in this chart

Count Basie is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Moon in Capricorn, Jupiter in Taurus and Saturn in Aquarius at once. James Hetfield comes closest: same Moon and Saturn, but Jupiter in Aries.

Jupiter in Taurus with Saturn in Aquarius. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 344 here, That Vegan Teacher and Marco van Basten among them.
Three planets retrograde: Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Louis Armstrong and Bill Haley have the same set, 1 chart in 120 here.
Eight different signs. Hardly any doubling up, a spread only 1% of charts here reach.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Leo Sun reads as warm and proud, a Capricorn Moon as ambitious and long-term: a 150° gap astrologers call awkward, two parts that need translating, the same pair James Hetfield carries. By the book, Venus in Virgo + Mercury in Virgo + Jupiter in Taurus reads as someone who shows care by fixing things, catches every typo and grows by building slowly. Elements run earth 51%, fire 40%, air 7%, water 2%, fixed first at 47%, the nearest mix to Valkyrae.

Planets

Gold line: Sun trine Jupiter (2.0°). Red dash: Mars square Jupiter (4.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♌︎ Leo 28°wants the room to noticenearest chart: Sergey Brin 28°
☽︎Moon · emotions♑︎ Capricornhandles feelings like a job, degree depends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♍︎ Virgo 25°catches every typonearest chart: An Yu-jin 25°
♀︎Venus · taste♍︎ Virgo 10°shows care by fixing thingsnearest chart: Robin Williams 10°
♂︎Mars · drive♌︎ Leo 4°fights in publicnearest chart: George Eliot 4°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♉︎ Taurus 0° ^℞grows by building slowlynearest chart: Adel Emam 0°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♒︎ Aquarius 16° ^℞learns to belongnearest chart: William Blake 16°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♐︎Uranus in Sagittarius10% of charts here

♆︎ ♋︎Neptune in Cancer4% of charts here

♇︎ ♊︎Pluto in Gemini7% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Mercury square Uranus (0.6°). The mind keeps colliding with the rule-breaking streak, as tight as Vincent Kompany’s.
Sun trine Jupiter (2.0°). The ego and appetite for more run downhill together, as tight as Orlando Bloom’s.
Sun trine Uranus (2.1°). The ego and the rule-breaking streak run downhill together, as tight as Lamine Yamal’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Cedric Diggory
Marvel: Iron Man
Star Wars: Mace Windu
Superman: Brainiac
The Chronicles of Narnia: Puddleglum
Sherlock Holmes: Colonel Moran
Bungo Stray Dogs: Ango Sakaguchi

Famous people whose charts click with Count Basie

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Closest chart twins

Mohammed VI of Morocco, born 1963. 3 of 6 planets share a sign (Sun, Mercury and Saturn), and Venus splits, Virgo here against Leo.
Kenny Rogers is the nearest in music (1938): same Sun, Mercury and Mars, split on Venus and Jupiter.

Born on August 21

August 21 also belongs to Kacey Musgraves (1988, music), Joe Strummer (1952, music) and Kenny Rogers (1938, music). August 21, 1904 was a Sunday, and the Moon was waxing gibbous.

Among musicians

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Capricorn is the rarest among musicians (4%), closest to Aleyna Tilki and PartyNextDoor. Leo ranks 7th of 12 Suns here, with Kenny Rogers and Whitney Houston nearest on the same Sun.