Erykah Badu’s birth chart
The aspects
26 February 1971, 12:00, Dallas, TX, USA
A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Erykah 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 conjunction Mercury
Conjunction is actually the only aspect which the Sun and Mercury can form, because the maximum distance between them is less than 30 degrees (and so less than one astrological sign). You are usually a dynamic, moveable and persuasive person and usually have good ability of speech and communication. You quickly make conclusions and connections (unless Mercury is in another bad aspect or goes retrograde) and you often also have a good nose for business, you also master the art of bluffing. You have a sharp and quick mind, sense of detail and you are cunning, although you are also often talented in languages, writing, music and art. You are very sociable, also easy going and adaptable, that is why you have many acquaintances and friends and people, as a rule, like you and often invite you places. You have an audacious, curious and youthful nature and often also looks.
Sun square Jupiter
You are usually impulsive, impetuous and passionate. You like indulging in all life's pleasures, including good food, that is why you are often prone to obesity. In general, you have strong and big needs, desires and appetites, you like dramatizing and exaggerating that is why you often live beyond your capabilities. You often have high-flying plans and goals which are too numerous to all be fulfilled. You often tend to be snobbish. You are usually an ambitious and enterprising, also competitive person.
Sun square Neptune
You often have difficulties harmonizing your desires, expectations and dreams with reality and actual abilities or possibilities. On the other hand, these desires and dreams lead to fulfillment of your numerous goals, because you have many abilities in different areas. Unfortunately, you sometimes take advantage of these abilities merely as a good bluff or you can use them positively in numerous artistic areas, such as acting, and also many others, in which you need imagination besides getting in touch with other people's feelings and testing and shaping different roles and situations.
Moon sextile Venus
You are an agreeable and good-humored person, that is why people like you and being around you. You have a mild and compassionate nature, you find something good in everything. You love children, animals, nature, all beautiful things and life's pleasures. You are interested in art and often move in artistic circles, sometimes you also work in art.
Moon square Mars
You are usually a fast, restless and impulsive person. For you, everything is happening too slowly, because you tend to act (too)fast and also to speed up events, which sometimes leads to having conflicts with others. You have a lot of energy, which you know how to direct and use well. You have a very passionate nature and are often involved in dramatic relationships, sometimes also colored with violence (if other aspects or positions also indicate this). You are combative and competitive, have an eager and impetuous character, that is why others sometimes hardly keep up with your tempo and they find you difficult. It is useful and advisable for you to be involved in any kind of sport.
Moon trine Neptune
With such aspect, you are emotional, sensitive and compassionate. You have vivid imagination and strongly developed intuition which guides you through life. You are usually creative, are interested in art and are talented for art, you can be especially creative in painting and music, you are also interested in film and photography. You are pleasant and mild (if, of course, other stronger positions or aspects don't prevail) and people like you. You often bring a sort of freshness and colorless to a room. You are interested in psychology and esoterics, are attracted to everything which is mystical, mysterious. You have a very developed inner and dream world, into which you often withdraw to process current events.
Moon opposition Pluto
This aspect gives impetuousness and intensity, you are impulsive and react strongly, both emotionally and physically. You have enormous inner strength, which you don't always direct in a useful and good way. You don't like standstills, if things happen too slow, you get upset and try to speed them up, with which you often waste good opportunities. You have a strong influence on others, are attractive and exciting, passionate and dramatic. You are not, however, the most adaptable person and you have difficulty making compromises in emotional relationships, so they can be difficult sometimes; it is not easy for you to find a partner who can handle you and can manage such an emotional specter. You demand a lot, from yourself and others, in your enthusiasm you often act inconsiderately and destructively; you want a quick reaction and don't always understand that others perhaps don't have such (strong) emotions as you. For you, it is necessary, that you nurture tolerance and calmness, it is very advisable for you to be involved in sports and recreation.
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 square Neptune
You are restless, sensitive and often quickly change your mood. You are moody, you often seem dispersed and unorganized, that is why you seem confused and chaotic on the outside. You have a very vivid imagination and strong intuition, which you don't always take advantage of well or do it in the “wrong” way.
Mercury inconjunct Pluto
You are usually intelligent and insightful, you intuitively perceive the essence of the situation, but despite this you don't act and judge best in these situations, because you too often make conclusions based only on yourself and don't consider other circumstances and don't always adapt to them well. Although you have a lot of thinking energy and a perspicacious nature, you often don't distinguish between what is important and what is useless, so you can be inspecting some completely meaningless and unnecessary things, as if under a microscope.
Mercury conjunction MC
You are sociable and have a good nose for sociable happenings – for 'being at the right place at the right time' (especially if other positions and aspects also contribute to this). You know an enormous number of people and have many friends and acquaintances and many are also useful for you in business sense. You are fast, active and flexible, you do well in basically any area and usually have good sense of business.
Venus trine Saturn
You are organized, hard-working and diligent. You are reliable and have a good attitude towards authorities and work and you have good working habits. You are usually polite, respectful, have nice manners and behavior, so you mostly get along well with everybody and most often make a good impression. Although you often indulge in good things, you don't like excessive indulgements in pleasures and are not very passionate and fiery, but rather more reserved, easy-going, committed and loyal, and such are also your emotional relationships.
Venus trine Pluto
You are impetuous, passionate and dedicated. You have enormous emotional potential and limitless inner energy, also good ability of renewal. You often radiate a certain magnetism, also charisma, so others find you attractive and interesting and want your company. You have a good sense of value of all things, also of business. Whatever you do, your heart and enthusiasm are in it, this is also true of your emotional and other relationships; you give a lot, but also expect and demand a lot.
Mars inconjunct Saturn
You are usually energetic, ambitious and enterprising, but not always patient and tactful enough, also not too understanding. You don't always have sense of individual levels of progression and also not of hierarchy. You don't like authorities too much and can be in bad relationships with them.
Mars opposition Ascendant
You are usually passionate and fiery, also fast and restless. You calm down with difficulty and are always in motion or involved with something. You are bored, when and if nothing is happening. You are not always patient and tolerant, also not tactful. You often have an unpredictable, reckless, impulsive character and react too quickly and too strongly, because you have difficulty restraining yourself and so you may also experience misunderstandings or disputes with others. Your extreme need for manifestation of power and energy, which is sometimes, unfortunately, also destructive, can originate from the earliest life period, when it perhaps developed in an environment which didn't influence you mildly and encouragingly, and perhaps you felt that you have to acquire everything with difficulty. You are interested in sport and can also be involved in it, but you have to be careful about injuries, since you may be prone to them.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune
You are a pleasant, well-meaning, sensitive and perceptive for all vibrations from the environment. You are compassionate, have a strong intuition and vivid imagination. You are interested in spirituality and esoterics, also philosophy, psychology and religion. You love nature, where you often get inspiration, you are usually very creative. You are attracted to film and photography, because you are a visual type of person and you like all art forms.
Saturn inconjunct Uranus
You sometimes have difficulty coordinating your serious, firm and stable part with modernity, individuality and rebelliousness. You want to walk the trodden and verified paths, but are at the same time also attracted to the new, the unknown and not yet discovered.
Uranus trine Ascendant
You are usually agreeable, sensitive, intuitive and often very original and creative. You have a sociable and interesting nature and often a certain inner fire, that is why others find you attractive and like you. You are open and progressive, have modern approaches and open views. You are without prejudice and don't differentiate, you mostly make contacts with ease and have a very wide, but also varied and interesting circle of friends and acquaintances. You have good coordination and often a sense of the right moment and the right place. Your life can be very diverse and many interesting things can happen to you.
Neptune sextile Pluto
You are emotional, intuitive and usually have a very rich inner and dream world. You are interested in everything which is mysterious and creates agitation. You are creative and have active imagination.
Neptune square MC
You are restless and extremely sensitive, you experience and feel everything strongly and react to everything strongly and emotionally, that is why others sometimes find you too soft, weak, over sensitive and confused, also moody and you are not always understood. You are creative and often have an artistic talent, but you don't always find an appropriate way of expression or you quickly give up and quit, sometimes because you are not grounded and lazy, often also because you are too sensitive to opinions and critique of others.
Pluto inconjunct MC
You are energetic and capable, ambitious and enterprising, you want to achieve success. You are often puzzled by what is happening in your inner world and your enormous inner strength, which you try to disregard sometimes, but the circumstances always force you to become aware of it and learn to accumulate and practically use it and efficiently and sensibly direct it. Therefore you perhaps try out many paths and ways, before you find something for yourself or until you learn use these abilities to your advantage.
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