Miles Davis
Miles Davis (born May 26, 1926, Alton, United States, 05:00; died 1991), was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Best-known releases include Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way. Davis's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
Miles Davis’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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Miles Davis’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
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~123,225
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Miles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Miles, according to the stars
Core essence
Miles is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Miles needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Miles feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Miles needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Miles wants to be loved
Miles wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Miles creates
How Miles makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Miles creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Miles is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Miles is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Miles slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Miles's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Miles sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Miles Davis's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Miles Davis was born on May 26, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Miles Davis's birth date, May 26, 1926, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Miles’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Miles Davis' timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Mercury in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Saturn in the 7th house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Miles Davis' timed chart is Saturn square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Miles Davis combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Miles’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 0.2° orb
Miles’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 0.5° orb
Miles’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonconjunctionSaturnapplying · 1.0° orb
Miles’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoonsquareNeptuneapplying · 1.2° orb
Miles’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 1.3° orb
Miles’s mind grinds against their imagination.
MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 1.6° orb
Miles’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
MoonoppositionMercuryapplying · 2.5° orb
Miles’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
MercurysquareJupiterapplying · 3.0° orb
Miles’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarstrinePlutoseparating · 3.0° orb
Miles’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
JupiteroppositionNeptuneseparating · 4.3° orb
Miles’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MoontrineMarsseparating · 4.6° orb
Miles’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 4.6° orb
Miles’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
VenussextileJupiterapplying · 4.8° orb
Miles’s affections open doors for their growth.
MoonsquareJupiterapplying · 5.6° orb
Miles’s feelings grind against their growth.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 5.6° orb
Miles’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 6.9° orb
Miles’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Miles’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.
⚷ ChironTaurus 0°05′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Miles building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 23°27′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Miles is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 27°16′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Miles is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCancer 25°31′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Miles is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 28°29′ · House 4
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Miles is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres square Mercury 0.0°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.3°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.6°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres square Moon 2.5°
- Ceres square Ascendant 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Miles’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune8 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon7 pts
disposes Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Miles is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Miles’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Grand cross · Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, NeptuneTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.- Grand cross · Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.2°
- Moon quincunx Venus 0.7°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
Miles’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Aries, house 12 | Mercury | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 1 | Sun | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 7 | Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 2 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Aries, house 12 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 3 | Moon, Saturn | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aquarius, house 10 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Pisces, house 11 | Jupiter | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 4 | Mars, Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Pisces, house 11 | Venus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Miles’s cards
Every card is computed from May 26, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Miles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q93341, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Miles Davis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Miles Davis?
- Miles Davis was a Gemini: born May 26, 1926, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- What was Miles Davis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1926 birth.
- What time was Miles Davis born?
- 05:00 local time in Alton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Miles Davis's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 05:00 birth time in Alton, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Miles Davis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the May 26, 1926 birth date.
- What was Miles Davis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 0°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 26, 1926 birth time.
- Where was Miles Davis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 28°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Miles Davis's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
