Yoko Ono has the Sun in Aquarius, the Moon in Sagittarius and Libra rising, with three planets in the 5th house of creativity: the chart of an artist who treated an idea as a work of art.

She was born at 8:30 in the evening on 18 February 1933 in Tokyo. Astro-Databank rates the time A, from memory, which is reliable but not from a birth record. Her family moved to New York State in the early 1950s, and by 1960 she was running a series of concerts and performances in her loft on Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan.

Sun, Venus and Mercury in the 5th house

The 5th house is creativity, play and self-expression. Hers holds the Sun and Venus in Aquarius, the sign of ideas and the future, with Mercury just over the line into Pisces. Aquarius in the 5th house makes art out of a concept rather than an object. In Cut Piece (1964) she sat still on a stage while the audience cut away her clothes with scissors. In Grapefruit (1964), a book of "instruction pieces", the artwork is a set of short directions for the reader to carry out, or only to imagine.

Her Sun sits at the very last degree of Aquarius, close to Pisces. Astrologers often read a last-degree Sun as a sign that is fully grown, with one foot already in the next: Aquarian ideas, carried with Piscean imagination.

Libra rising, with Uranus in the 7th house

Libra is the sign of partnership, and the 7th house, opposite the Ascendant, is the partner. In her chart that house holds Uranus, the planet of the sudden and the unconventional. Few charts describe a public life so shaped by one partnership. She met John Lennon at her exhibition at the Indica Gallery in London in November 1966, and their life together became a work in public: the "Bed-ins" for peace in Amsterdam and Montreal in 1969, and the "War is over! (If you want it)" billboards in cities around the world that December.

Moon in Sagittarius in the 3rd house

The Moon is the private self, and in Sagittarius it needs room, belief and a horizon. In the 3rd house, the house of words, short messages and everyday communication, it fits an artist whose best-known works are often a single line of text: "Imagine", "Yes", "Breathe". In 2017 she was officially added as a co-writer of the song "Imagine", which Lennon had said was drawn from her book.

Pluto in Cancer at the top of the chart

Her Midheaven, the public role, is in Cancer, with Pluto close by in the 10th house. Pluto in the 10th is intense public exposure, often a strong reaction from the public before understanding follows. For years she was blamed in the press for things that were not hers to answer for. Later, major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2015 and Tate Modern in London in 2024, gave her retrospectives, and the view of her as a pioneering artist became the common one.

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If you share her Aquarius Sun or her Libra rising, you may know the pull between your own ideas and the people you share them with. Add your details below to see how your chart meets hers.