No guitarist ever traveled farther on six strings than Jimi Hendrix, and his Sagittarius Sun names the impulse: expansion past every known boundary. In four short years of fame he took the electric guitar somewhere it had never been, playing with the fearless, horizon-chasing abandon that is Sagittarius at full flame, his Sun placed in the eleventh house of collectives and the counterculture that claimed him.
His recorded birth time puts Mars in Scorpio in the tenth house, the searing, transformative intensity of his public performances, instruments set alight and anthems rewired. Mercury beside the Sun in Sagittarius describes his freewheeling, visionary musical language, while a Cancer Moon in the seventh house reveals the tender, private sensitivity bandmates and lovers knew offstage.
The complete chart below maps all of it in detail, placement by placement and house by house. To hear what your own sky is playing, generate your birth chart on MySkyChart.
The Chart Wheel
Planetary Placements
| Planet | Sign | House |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sagittarius | 11th house |
| Moon | Cancer | 7th house |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 11th house |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 12th house |
| Mars | Scorpio | 10th house |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 7th house |
| Saturn | Gemini | 6th house |
| Uranus | Gemini | 5th house |
| Neptune | Libra | 9th house |
| Pluto | Leo | 8th house |
Key Placements Explained
Sun in Sagittarius
A Sagittarius Sun aims your identity like an arrow at the horizon. Ruled by expansive Jupiter in mutable fire, you are here to seek meaning through experience: travel, study, belief, risk, laughter. You feel most yourself in motion toward something bigger, and confinement of any kind, physical or intellectual, dims you fast. Your purpose is to find truth firsthand and share it generously, while learning that freedom deepens rather than disappears when you commit.
Read the full Sun in Sagittarius guide →Moon in Cancer
The Moon rules Cancer, so this placement is the Moon at full strength: deep memory, powerful intuition, and an emotional life that moves in genuine tides. You absorb the moods of every room you enter and remember feelings the way others remember facts. Nurturing is your instinct and your art. Your core need is belonging — a home, chosen or given, where your sensitivity is treated as the gift it is.
Read the full Moon in Cancer guide →Mercury in Sagittarius
Mercury in Sagittarius aims for meaning the way an arrow aims for distance. You think in patterns, principles, and punchlines, skipping the fine print to ask what it all adds up to. Your honesty is legendary — refreshing at its best, unsolicited at its worst — and your enthusiasm can make a whole room believe in something. The growth edge is precision: making sure the inspiring story survives contact with the facts.
Read the full Mercury in Sagittarius guide →Venus in Sagittarius
Venus in Sagittarius falls in love with horizons — and with people who feel like one. You need romance that expands you: shared travel, big questions, laughter that startles the neighbors. Honesty is your love language, sometimes brutally so, and possessiveness is your one unforgivable sin. You love generously and optimistically, treating each relationship as an adventure. Your quest is discovering that commitment, done right, is the longest journey of all.
Read the full Venus in Sagittarius guide →Mars in Scorpio
Mars in Scorpio is the strategist's placement — Mars in its ancient home, running silent and deep. You pursue what you want with total commitment or not at all; half-measures strike you as dishonest. Your will can survive years of setbacks that would break other placements, because you draw power from precisely the crises others flee. Desire is fusion, anger is glacial and patient, and your presence is felt before you say a word.
Read the full Mars in Scorpio guide →What do you share with Jimi Hendrix?
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