Taylor Swift's Birth Chart
Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989 at 05:17 in Reading, PA. The chart has the Sun in Sagittarius and the Moon in Cancer, with Scorpio rising.
| Born | December 13, 1989 |
| Time | 05:17 |
| Place | Reading, PA |
Taylor Swift's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Sagittarius: Room to Move
You are yourself on the way somewhere. Identity here is built from the horizon rather than the home, from the belief, the trip or the argument that promises to make the world larger. People experience you as generous, blunt and certain, and your honesty lands as refreshing or as tactless depending on the day. Routine makes you restless, and a conversation with no big idea in it feels like a waste of breath. Your vitality is bound up with having room to move and something worth believing in.
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.
Scorpio rising: Taking Your Measure
You arrive watching, and people feel watched. Strangers meet a still body, a steady gaze, and a face that gives nothing until it has taken your measure, and some of them are drawn in while others step back. People tell you their secrets and assume you have worse ones of your own. Trust is given slowly and withdrawn completely, and a betrayal years old still sits in your posture when that person walks in. Your intensity reads as threat or magnetism depending on the day.
Planet positions in Taylor Swift's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sagittarius | 21°23′ |
| Moon | Cancer | 1°30′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 8°38′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 1°51′ |
| Mars | Scorpio | 26°41′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Cancer | 7°41′ |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 13°27′ |
| Uranus | Capricorn | 4°39′ |
| Neptune | Capricorn | 11°20′ |
| Pluto | Scorpio | 16°30′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Aquarius | 17°59′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Cancer | 15°03′ |
| Ascendant | Scorpio | 25°35′ |
| Midheaven | Virgo | 8°47′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 4, Air 1, Water 4. By modality: Cardinal 6, Fixed 3, Mutable 1.
A cardinal emphasis
A cardinal emphasis makes you an initiator: you start things, push for change, and prefer to lead rather than wait.
The tightest aspects in Taylor Swift's chart
- Mercury opposite Jupiter, orb 0°57′
- Pluto trine Chiron, orb 1°27′
- Pluto square North Node, orb 1°29′
- Saturn opposite Chiron, orb 1°37′
- Saturn conjunct Neptune, orb 2°07′
- Mercury conjunct Neptune, orb 2°41′
- Jupiter opposite Uranus, orb 3°03′
- Saturn sextile Pluto, orb 3°03′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mercury opposite Jupiter: Data Versus Meaning
You swing between the person who wants the exact figure and the person who wants what it all means. Both are real and both go wrong alone: pure detail leaves you clever and directionless, pure vision leaves you preaching things you never checked. Held apart on purpose, each keeps its own strength, and you become the rare person who can explain something big without lying about it.
Pluto trine Chiron: Wound Runs Deep
Going into the wound feels natural to you, which is exactly the risk. The intensity flows straight into the fractured place without any friction, so healing work and obsessive re-wounding use the same open channel and feel identical from the inside. What you produce from it can be genuinely transformative for other people or a very sophisticated loop.
Pluto square North Node: Pressure Against Direction
Control and growth grind against each other. The intense side wants to run the show, dominate the outcome, keep a grip on everything, while the direction you're meant to move refuses to be forced. Growth answers first here, and the willpower stops being domination and turns into staying power. Left unworked, it shows up as power struggles at every threshold.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Taylor Swift'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.