Aretha Franklin’s birth chart
The aspects
24 March 1942, 22:30, Memphis, TN, USA
A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Aretha as “you”.
Important elements of every horoscope are also the aspects – they are angles which the planets and other important points form with each other.
Here, we consider six most important aspects: Conjunction (0 degrees), Sextile (60 degrees), Square (90 degrees), Trine (120 degrees), Inconjunction (150 degrees), Opposition (180 degrees).
The more accurate the angle between two planets is, the more important and influential is their relationship in your horoscope. When calculating the aspects, we also consider a certain deviation, which depends on the importance of the aspect and the planets involved (deviation can be anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees of the exact angle).
There are also many smaller aspects, which are only important, if they are very accurate (up to 1 degree) and they, of course, have smaller power or influence. They can be of help with a more detailed and deeper analysis or description of personal horoscope, but for now, we do not take them into consideration.
Continue reading the analysis for all your aspects.
Sun square Moon
The Sun square the Moon often forces you to a certain inner fight between reason and emotions and that is why you are not always most successful in harmonizing the two areas. You often put you reason above your emotions (but this also depends on other positions and aspects), which usually leads to dissatisfaction. On the other hands, this inner dissatisfaction often motivates you, drives you forward and also encourages you to solve conflicts and pushes you to personal growth. You have difficulty completely relaxing, you often seem tense and nervous (that is why you often experience emotional problems or stress, which can lead to disease, especially if other positions and aspects also emphasize it).
Sun opposition Neptune
With such aspect, you are very emotional, sensitive and intuitive, your radars are always working, you react strongly to all vibrations from the environment. You have a very vivid imagination, creative nature and talent for art, but you often don't know how to use these potentials well, whether because you withdraw into your world and consequently being too sensitive, whether because you are lazy, since you can be prone to laziness. Therefore, it is very important for you to find a way to use and direct your abilities and gifts into constructive actions early in life. Healthy environment is also important for you, since it offers you enough support and firmness, because you can quickly withdraw into your own worlds and this additionally distances you from others. You are sometimes prone to allergies and addictions (if other aspects and positions aren't stronger).
Sun trine Pluto
With such trine, you are usually firm, decisive, persistent and reliable. You often radiate a certain inner strength and charisma and others appreciate and respect you. You are a good judge and you use your advantages well. You are mostly ambitious and know exactly what you want and are approaching your goals with persistence and stubbornness. You aren't afraid of risks and challenges or physical exertions, nothing is too hard for you, when you are motivated and once you decide to do it. Physically and intellectually, you are usually extremely efficient and have good ability of renewal. You handle also bigger exertions and work well in difficult and bad conditions – often you perform best in difficult circumstances and situations. You are interested in sport and are often also involved in it.
Moon trine Mercury
With such trine, you are very active, flexible and sociable, that is why you are liked in all sorts of companies. You like being efficient and useful, you are constantly planning, your mind is always active (often you are also always in action physically).
Mercury square Mars
You are restless and always active, your mind is always working. You quickly say things, often without reservations, sometimes you are also argumentative. You quickly get upset when things don't go according to plans. You have a combative and competitive nature. Because of these characteristics, others sometimes find you difficult. You can direct your excessive energy and inner unrest to sport that you are attracted to and often also involved in. You need to nurture tactfulness and patience.
Mercury square Jupiter
You are restless, impetuous, something must always be happening to you. You are talkative, prone to exaggerating and dramatizing and you usually like being in center of attention. You are often drawn on a journey or you make business quickly and without previous thought or plan, that is why you sometimes need to face circumstances that you could otherwise avoid with a more calm and wiser approach and ways. You like being informed and educated, you can find a lot of pleasure in science and research.
Mercury trine Ascendant
You are friendly, open and pleasant, agreeable, sociable and talkative and are mostly popular because of your positive energy, easiness, openness and sociable nature. You have countless friends and acquaintances with whom you have good relationships and with whom you nurture contacts, often they can in some way also be beneficial for you. You think quickly, are extremely literate, you express without difficulty, you usually have good rhetorical abilities and good vocabulary. You are fast and restless, flexible and dynamic, you are always in action and in movement, you love travels (although shorter ones).
Venus trine Jupiter
You are pleasant, agreeable, hearty, passionate and generous, that is why you are usually popular and wanted in every company, you are also usually a good host. You have sense of beauty and aesthetics, also of value of things. You love people, animals and nature, you enjoy good things, you also like it when others around you feel good and often know how to motivate others. You have a lot of friends and acquaintances, you love travelling and exploring new countries (as well as their art and cuisine).
Venus square Saturn
You are usually enterprising and ambitious, ready to make sacrifices to reach the goals you have set, but are not too flexible, adaptable and not too tolerant. You have your methods and ways which might be efficient for you, but not always for others, so you often have difficulties cooperating with others. You are distrustful and have difficulties relaxing completely.
Venus square Ascendant
You want love and understanding and so you perhaps see a mirror in everyone, but you place too much importance in everything and too quickly identify with others and perhaps spend a lot of time searching for yourself through all sorts of contacts and relationships, until you find the right environment or conditions for your growth and calming down. You often find peace and fulfillment through creating (mostly in artistic area).
Venus opposition MC
You have many acquaintances and friends and numerous contacts with manifold people, but you still often feel lonely and misunderstood. Sometimes you feel that you progress only with difficulty and achieve what you want with difficulty. Despite the fact that you need a lot of warmth and love, you sometimes bond or make relationships on more of material than emotional foundations.
Mars conjunction Jupiter
You have incredible energy, inner strength and high physical performance. You are extremely flexible, dynamic and active, you like movement and travelling (although perhaps not long distance travelling), you are audacious and adventurous. You are interested in sports, often also involved in them and can even achieve good results. You are combative and competitive, but also of noble and honorary spirit. You have a passionate and impulsive character and also big appetites in all areas.
Mars inconjunct Ascendant
You are often in a sort of conflict with yourself and this often originates from a pattern from your early period of life, when you perhaps felt that you need to especially prove and validate yourself, because you perhaps lacked attention and validation or thought you weren't appreciated enough. So you can either engage in all possible areas to find confirmation or you withdraw to inactivity and laziness, if you give up because of disappointment.
Jupiter inconjunct Ascendant
You are usually passionate, impetuous, dramatic and prone to exaggerating. You have strong emotions and reactions. You are very demanding and not too adaptable, you often have strong desires, needs and appetites and also great expectations, which others hardly live up to and so you often feel disappointed. Your plans and goals are not always in harmony with realistic possibilities, so you don't always fulfill them and this angers and frustrates you and additionally strengthens your inner feeling of unfilfillment and yearning.
Saturn conjunction Uranus
You are ambitious and enterprising, also individualistic and you don't always follow preordained paths, but you try to do things your own way and leave a mark. You are often very skillful and also technical. Sometimes nervousness is your weakness, your feelings can change from being overly excited to being depressed.
Saturn trine Neptune
You are polite, respectful and understanding. You often have creative nature, good and original ideas and vivid imagination, also sense of balancing your earthly and firmer side with your emotional and experimental side, so you can fulfill numerous plans and set goals.
Saturn square MC
You are ambitious and enterprising and want to be successful and also have material safety, that is why you devote a lot of your time and energy into business and planning (of the future). You follow your own systems and trust your methods the most, but they are not always compatible with procedures of others and because you are not too adaptable and you make compromises with difficulty, your business and other relationships are hard and success is somehow evading. You neglect your emotional and family life because you are so ambitious.
Uranus trine Neptune
You are sensitive, emotional and intuitive. You have vivid imagination, strongly developed intellect and the ability to absorb enormous amount of information. You are inventive, interesting, original and creative, you often use new and fresh approaches. You are interested in art, also in spirituality and esoterics.
Uranus square MC
You are restless and changeable, individualistic, stubborn and rebellious; you often have a unique nature and don't adapt well to preordained paths and existing standards, but you often introduce your own ways and approaches which others perhaps find unacceptable. Also, your character is too fast for most people and they can't keep up with you and so you are often also misunderstood. However, they also listen to you, because of your exciting energy, inventiveness and fresh approach, if only you persist long enough and if you learn to present your ideas and thoughts in a comprehensive way.
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