Duke Ellington birth chart

April 29, 1899
Washington, D.C., United States
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunTaurus

☽︎MoonSagittariusorCapricorn

Main elementFire 48%

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By sign alone Duke Ellington has look-alikes, so degrees do the splitting: Saturn at 23° Sagittarius and Mars at 5° Leo, and no other chart here sits within a degree or so on both. Enya misses by one planet.

Mercury in Aries with Saturn in Sagittarius. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 212 here, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Arijit Singh among them.
Three planets retrograde: Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Bill Haley and Louis Armstrong have the same set, 1 chart in 120 here.
Grand trine. Venus, Mars and Uranus sit 120° apart, a closed triangle in fire. Astrologers look for this one; 1 chart in 28 here has it.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Taurus Sun reads as steady and patient, with the Moon in Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on birth hour. By the book, Mercury in Aries + Venus in Aries + Jupiter in Scorpio reads as someone who thinks out loud and fast, likes the chase and grows through hard truths. Elements run fire 48%, earth 39%, air 6%, water 6%, fixed first at 58%, the nearest mix to Fred Astaire.

Planets

Gold line: Venus trine Mars (2.0°). Red dash: Mars square Jupiter (1.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♉︎ Taurus 9°won't be rushednearest chart: JJ 9°
☽︎Moon · emotions♐︎ / ♑︎Sagittarius or Capricorndepends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♈︎ Aries 16°thinks out loud and fastnearest chart: Sunmi 16°
♀︎Venus · taste♈︎ Aries 3°likes the chasenearest chart: Kehlani 3°
♂︎Mars · drive♌︎ Leo 5°fights in publicnearest chart: Ninja 5°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♏︎ Scorpio 4° ^℞grows through hard truthsnearest chart: Erin Moriarty 4°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♐︎ Sagittarius 23° ^℞learns to commitnearest chart: Évariste Galois 22°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♐︎Uranus in Sagittarius10% of charts here

♆︎ ♊︎Neptune in Gemini4% of charts here

♇︎ ♊︎Pluto in Gemini7% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Saturn opposite Neptune (0.2°). Self-control and the dreamer side pull from opposite ends, and only Václav Havel, Vladimir Vernadsky and Carmen Electra have it tighter at noon.
Mars square Jupiter (1.1°). Drive keeps colliding with appetite for more, as tight as Lil Baby’s.
Mars trine Uranus (1.2°). Drive and the rule-breaking streak run downhill together, as tight as Golda Meir’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Rubeus Hagrid
Marvel: Captain America
Star Wars: Poe Dameron
Haikyuu!!: Wakatoshi Ushijima
Frieren: Eisen
Fairy Tail: Natsu Dragneel
Valorant: Iso

Famous people whose charts click with Duke Ellington

Hasan Piker leads at 88%, Jacob Elordi closes the list at 85%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Vladimir Nabokov, born 7 days earlier: Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Venus splits, Aries here against Pisces.
Charlotte Brontë, 83 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter signs, average gap 21°.
Ashe is the nearest in music (1993): same Sun, Mercury and Venus, split on Mars and Jupiter.

Born on April 29

April 29 also belongs to Anggun (1974, music), JJ (2001, music) and Candace Owens (1989, creator). Washington is also the birthplace of Al Gore and Marvin Gaye. On April 29, 1899 the Moon was waning gibbous.

Among musicians

Of this chart's placements, Jupiter in Scorpio is the rarest among musicians (6%), closest to Kali Uchis and Umm Kulthum. Taurus ranks 1st of 12 Suns here (11%, against 9% across the base), with Ashe and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky nearest on the same Sun.