Birth Chart
Harold Budd
Harold Montgomery Budd Jr
Sun Gemini
Moon Cancer
Ascendant Virgo
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Gemini - 03°28' - in house 10
↣ Moon in Cancer - 25°32' - in house 11
↣ Mercury in Gemini - 13°07' - in house 10 - retrograde
↣ Venus in Taurus - 23°49' - in house 9
↣ Mars in Gemini - 08°03' - in house 10
↣ Jupiter in Sagittarius - 21°38' - in house 4 - retrograde
↣ Saturn in Pisces - 21°14' - in house 7
↣ Uranus in Taurus - 07°07' - in house 9
↣ Neptune in Virgo - 13°59' - in house 1 - retrograde
↣ Pluto in Cancer - 25°36' - in house 11
↣ North Node in Capricorn - 03°46' - in house 4
↣ Ascendant in Virgo - 14°39' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Gemini - 13°10' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Virgo - 10°14'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 10
↣ Moon in house 11
↣ Mercury in house 10
↣ Venus in house 9
↣ Mars in house 10
↣ Jupiter in house 4
↣ Saturn in house 7
↣ Uranus in house 9
↣ Neptune in house 1
↣ Pluto in house 11
↣ North Node in house 4
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Mercury conjunction (9°40' applying) parallel
↣ Sun and Venus conjunction (9°39' applying)
↣ Sun and Mars conjunction (4°35' applying) parallel
↣ Sun and Equatorial Ascendant square (6°47' separating)
↣ Sun and Midheaven conjunction (9°43' separating)
↣ Moon and Venus sextile (1°44' separating) parallel
↣ Moon and Saturn trine (4°18' separating)
↣ Moon and Pluto conjunction (0°04' applying)
↣ Mercury and Mars conjunction (5°05' applying) parallel
↣ Mercury and Jupiter opposition (8°30' separating) antiparallel
↣ Mercury and Neptune square (0°52' separating)
↣ Mercury and Equatorial Ascendant square (2°53' applying)
↣ Mercury and Ascendant square (1°31' separating)
↣ Mercury and Midheaven conjunction (0°03' separating) parallel
↣ Venus and Saturn sextile (2°34' separating)
↣ Venus and Pluto sextile (1°48' applying)
↣ Mars and Jupiter antiparallel
↣ Mars and Neptune square (5°57' applying)
↣ Mars and Equatorial Ascendant square (2°11' separating)
↣ Mars and Midheaven conjunction (5°08' separating) parallel
↣ Jupiter and Saturn square (0°24' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Pluto antiparallel
↣ Jupiter and North Node parallel
↣ Jupiter and Midheaven opposition (8°27' applying) antiparallel
↣ Saturn and Neptune opposition (7°15' separating)
↣ Saturn and Pluto trine (4°22' applying)
↣ Saturn and Ascendant opposition (6°36' applying) antiparallel
↣ Uranus and North Node trine (3°21' separating)
↣ Uranus and Equatorial Ascendant trine (3°07' separating)
↣ Neptune and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (3°45' applying)
↣ Neptune and Ascendant conjunction (0°40' separating)
↣ Neptune and Midheaven square (0°49' applying)
↣ Pluto and North Node antiparallel
↣ Pluto and Midheaven parallel
↣ North Node and Equatorial Ascendant trine (6°28' separating)
Birth data
- Original name
- Harold Montgomery Budd Jr
- Chart date
- 24/05/1936
- Chart time
- 12:31
- Date and time quality
- AA Birth record in hand what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
-
Los Angeles (CA), USA - Latitude and longitude
- 34°03' North · 118°15' West
- Time zone
- 08:00 West
The data used to calculate the charts comes from public sources, as do the descriptive texts. We use sources such as Wikipedia.
About
Harold Budd was an American composer and poet noted for his contributions to minimalism and the avant-garde music scene of Southern California. Trained in composition, he taught at the California Institute of the Arts and emerged in the 1960s–70s with works that blended drones, influences from John Cage and Morton Feldman, and an aesthetic akin to Mark Rothko’s abstract painting.
In the late 1970s and 1980s Budd gained international recognition for his studio work and pivotal collaborations with Brian Eno and Robin Guthrie. His albums with Eno, notably Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980) and The Pearl (1984), established his sustained, atmospheric piano style, a technique he called the “soft pedal.”
Over his career he alternated between electronic and instrumental practices, maintaining a contemplative approach that moved among experimental music, jazz, and ambient without being reducible to a single label. His output influenced generations of musicians interested in sonic textures and timbral space, leaving a legacy in electroacoustic chamber music and in the intersections between minimalism and atmospheric pop.
