Kurt Cobain's Birth Chart
Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967 at 19:38 in Aberdeen, WA. The chart has the Sun in Pisces and the Moon in Cancer, with Virgo rising.
| Born | February 20, 1967 |
| Time | 19:38 |
| Place | Aberdeen, WA |
Kurt Cobain's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Pisces: What Moves Through You
Your sense of self has soft edges. You take on the mood of the room, the pain of a friend, the tone of whatever you are reading, and you are often not sure which feelings were yours. People experience you as kind, imaginative and hard to pin down, and they tell you things they tell no one else. Your vitality comes from the inner life, from music, faith or art, and drains in harsh light and hard schedules. You shine by letting something larger move through you.
Moon in Cancer: Shell and Tide
Feeling is your first language, and you register the temperature of a room before anyone speaks. You need a place and people that are yours, and safety is measured in who stays. Memory holds everything, the kindness and the slight, with the same clarity years later. You look after others by instinct, often before you are asked, and you retreat just as instinctively when hurt, going quiet rather than loud. Home is less an address than a feeling you carry and rebuild wherever you land.
Virgo rising: Smudge on the Sleeve
You arrive noticing what is wrong with the room. Strangers meet a tidy body, a watchful face, and a manner that offers help before it offers warmth. People trust you with detail early and hand you the thing that needs fixing, then wonder why you seem tired. Your own appearance is checked and rechecked, and a smudge on your sleeve occupies more of your attention than the person across the table would guess. You remember the one error in a day that went well.
Planet positions in Kurt Cobain's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 1°49′ |
| Moon | Cancer | 13°24′ |
| Mercury | Pisces | 18°28′ |
| Venus | Pisces | 26°33′ |
| Mars | Scorpio | 1°48′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Cancer | 25°42′ |
| Saturn | Pisces | 28°44′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Virgo | 23°15′ |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 24°21′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Virgo | 19°48′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Taurus | 9°35′ |
| Chiron | Pisces | 24°17′ |
| Ascendant | Virgo | 23°21′ |
| Midheaven | Gemini | 21°47′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 0, Earth 2, Air 0, Water 8. By modality: Cardinal 2, Fixed 2, Mutable 6. No planet falls in Fire or Air signs.
A water emphasis
A water emphasis makes you emotional, intuitive, and sensitive: you feel deeply, attune to others, and navigate life through instinct and empathy.
A mutable emphasis
A mutable emphasis makes you adaptable and flexible: you adjust easily, juggle change, and thrive on variety and versatility.
The tightest aspects in Kurt Cobain's chart
- Sun trine Mars, orb 0°01′
- Neptune trine Chiron, orb 0°04′
- Venus trine Jupiter, orb 0°52′
- Uranus opposite Chiron, orb 1°02′
- Mercury opposite Pluto, orb 1°20′
- Jupiter trine Neptune, orb 1°21′
- Jupiter trine Chiron, orb 1°25′
- Venus conjunct Saturn, orb 2°10′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Sun trine Mars: Effortless Ignition
Doing the thing costs you almost nothing, which is the catch. Energy pours straight into action without resistance, so momentum builds before anyone including you checks the direction. It amplifies whatever it's aimed at: an athletic streak, an easy physical confidence, or a habit of picking fights and burning the body through sheer unmonitored output.
Neptune trine Chiron: Effortless Merciful Reading
You read damage in other people without trying, the way some people read a room's temperature. Because it flows, there is no gate on it: their sorrow arrives inside you unlabeled and you absorb illness, mood, and story alike. The same channel that makes you a natural comfort also makes you a natural sponge.
Venus trine Jupiter: Easy Abundance Current
Money, food, affection and opportunity flow toward you without much visible effort, which is exactly why it goes unnoticed. The current amplifies whatever it runs through, so a good habit around resources gets richer and a sloppy one gets expensive fast. Comfort arrives so smoothly it can quietly remove the reason to sharpen anything.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Kurt Cobain's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.