Blues singer

Bessie Smith

The Empress of the Blues and the highest paid Black entertainer of the 1920s. She died after a car crash in Mississippi at forty-three.

Born1894-04-15, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USAA Sunday
Died1937-09-26, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USAA Sunday, aged 43
At birthSun in Aries, Moon in Virgo

Birth Chart

1894-04-15, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/New_Yorkthe zone used then

Ordered-orbit layout: angles come from chart longitudes; orbit radii are fixed by planet order. Moon orbits Earth.

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunAries25°41′Direct
MoonVirgo0°45′Direct
MercuryPisces28°35′Direct
VenusPisces10°05′Direct
MarsAquarius12°54′Direct
JupiterGemini2°39′Direct
SaturnLibra21°31′Retrograde
UranusScorpio14°04′Retrograde
NeptuneGemini11°34′Direct
PlutoGemini9°18′Direct

This is Bessie Smith's chart for 1894-04-15, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Death Chart

1937-09-26, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/Chicagothe zone used then

Ordered-orbit layout: angles come from chart longitudes; orbit radii are fixed by planet order. Moon orbits Earth.

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunLibra3°13′Direct
MoonGemini26°49′Direct
MercuryVirgo16°07′Direct
VenusVirgo1°54′Direct
MarsSagittarius27°35′Direct
JupiterCapricorn17°44′Direct
SaturnAries1°35′Retrograde
UranusTaurus13°06′Retrograde
NeptuneVirgo19°14′Direct
PlutoCancer29°51′Direct

This is Bessie Smith's chart for 1937-09-26, the day they died, cast the same way a birth chart is cast. Cast one for any recorded date. It predicts nothing: the date is one you already have.

Their Astrocartography

Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Bessie Smith was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.

The birth time is unknown, so this map is cast for noon. The SHAPE of it is right and the whole pattern slides east or west with the real time, so treat the longitudes as approximate.

Sun MCSun ICSun ACSun DCMoon MCMoon ICMoon ACMoon DCMercury MCMercury ICMercury ACMercury DCVenus MCVenus ICVenus ACVenus DCMars MCMars ICMars ACMars DCJupiter MCJupiter ICJupiter ACJupiter DCSaturn MCSaturn ICSaturn ACSaturn DCUranus MCUranus ICUranus ACUranus DCNeptune MCNeptune ICNeptune ACNeptune DCPluto MCPluto ICPluto ACPluto DC
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Ten planets on four angles is forty lines, which is more than the interactive tool opens with on purpose. Draw your own map to choose which planets to show.

Charts are computed from real planetary positions (Swiss Ephemeris) for the recorded moment and place. Recorded times can carry small uncertainties; treat house and ascendant placements accordingly.