Poet and memoirist

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was the first of seven autobiographies and made a childhood in the segregated South legible to people who had never considered it.

Born1928-04-04, St Louis, United StatesA Wednesday
Died2014-05-28, Winston-Salem, United StatesA Wednesday, aged 86
At birthSun in Aries, Moon in Libra
TimezonesAmerica/Chicago · America/New_YorkHistorical, for the place and the date. Not the zone that place uses now.

Birth Chart

1928-04-04, St Louis, United States · time unknown, noon chart

America/Chicago

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

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunAries14°43′Direct
MoonLibra10°15′Direct
MercuryPisces20°17′Direct
VenusPisces21°37′Direct
MarsAquarius27°48′Direct
JupiterAries16°05′Direct
SaturnSagittarius19°05′Retrograde
UranusAries4°01′Direct
NeptuneLeo26°40′Retrograde
PlutoCancer14°59′Direct

Death Chart

2014-05-28, Winston-Salem, United States · time unknown, noon chart

America/New_York

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

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunGemini7°14′Direct
MoonGemini5°56′Direct
MercuryGemini29°29′Direct
VenusAries29°31′Direct
MarsLibra9°29′Direct
JupiterCancer19°43′Direct
SaturnScorpio18°42′Retrograde
UranusAries15°21′Direct
NeptunePisces7°33′Direct
PlutoCapricorn13°08′Retrograde

Their Astrocartography

Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Maya Angelou 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
Ring, where you were bornTap a line for what it meansZoom with the buttons · full screen to pinch, drag and rotate

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. Historical times can carry small uncertainties; treat house and ascendant placements accordingly.