Muhammad Ali's Birth Chart
Muhammad Ali was born on January 17, 1942 at 18:35 in Louisville, KY. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Aquarius, with Leo rising.
| Born | January 17, 1942 |
| Time | 18:35 |
| Place | Louisville, KY |
Muhammad Ali's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Capricorn: Older Than Your Years
You become yourself through what you have built and what you have carried. Identity here is earned rather than given, and you measure yourself against a standard that was serious from a young age. People experience you as capable, dry and older than your years, and they rarely see the effort or the fear of falling short underneath. Authority sits on you and sometimes heavily. Your vitality grows with age and with responsibility, and you are often more at ease at fifty than you were at twenty.
Moon in Aquarius: Warm at a Distance
You feel things at one remove, watching your reactions before you agree to have them. Comfort is room to breathe, a friend who asks nothing, an idea big enough to take you out of yourself. Closeness that arrives too fast makes you step back, and you belong more easily to a group or a cause than to one person's hunger for you. People find you warm and untouchable, and your loyalty works quietly, remembering what someone said years ago and acting on it without a word.
Leo rising: The Room Was Waiting
You arrive as if the room had been waiting. Strangers meet a straight back, a warm face, a voice that carries without trying, and they tend to look at you whether or not you are saying anything. People expect generosity from you and usually get it, along with a need to be seen giving it. Being overlooked lands in the body as a real injury, and a flat greeting can sour a whole evening. You are loyal in public and wounded in private, and the difference rarely shows.
Planet positions in Muhammad Ali's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 27°18′ |
| Moon | Aquarius | 12°26′ |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 13°31′ |
| Venus (retrograde) | Aquarius | 20°40′ |
| Mars | Taurus | 3°03′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Gemini | 11°57′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Taurus | 21°40′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Taurus | 26°28′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Virgo | 29°48′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Leo | 4°48′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Virgo | 14°16′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Leo | 12°29′ |
| Ascendant | Leo | 19°32′ |
| Midheaven | Taurus | 12°14′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 5, Air 4, Water 0. By modality: Cardinal 1, Fixed 7, Mutable 2. No planet falls in a Water sign.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
A fixed emphasis
A fixed emphasis makes you steady and determined: you sustain, persist, and hold your ground, sometimes to the point of stubbornness.
The tightest aspects in Muhammad Ali's chart
- Moon opposite Chiron, orb 0°03′
- Moon trine Jupiter, orb 0°29′
- Jupiter sextile Chiron, orb 0°32′
- Sun trine Uranus, orb 0°49′
- Venus square Saturn, orb 0°59′
- Mercury opposite Chiron, orb 1°02′
- Moon conjunct Mercury, orb 1°05′
- Mercury trine Jupiter, orb 1°33′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Moon opposite Chiron: Held Versus Hurting
Across the gap sits the need for a safe home on one end and an unhealed structure on the other, both loud. Leaning fully into comfort buries the wound; living in the wound makes home impossible. Balance comes from letting each stay itself, which is why you can hold family warmth and old damage in the same evening without collapsing either.
Moon trine Jupiter: Generous By Default
You feed people. Warmth and expansion move through you without any effort, which is why you rarely notice you are doing it, and why the flow amplifies whatever it carries. Genuine care goes out enormous, and so does self-soothing, indulgence, or a family belief that was never questioned. Nothing in this aspect tells you which one is running.
Jupiter sextile Chiron: Wisdom On Request
Nothing here happens by itself. The hurt sits quietly in one place and the wide view sits in another, and they only cooperate when you actually put them in the same room. When you do, hard experience turns into something teachable, funny even, and other people take it in without feeling lectured at.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Muhammad Ali'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.