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Beyoncé

Singer and performer

Singer who rose to fame with Destiny’s Child before a solo career of genre-defining albums. One of the most awarded artists in Grammy history.

Born
September 4, 1981
Time
Unknown
Place
Houston, Texas, US
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Sun

Virgo

11°35′–12°33′ across the day

Moon

Scorpio

15°56′–27°50′ across the day

Rising

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Notes on this chart

Libra holds half this chart. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto are all there, all of them in the second solar house, and the Sun is not among them: it stands alone in Virgo, the only body here holding an Earth sign.

A group that size in one sign is a stellium, and five is a large one where three is the usual threshold. The count is not the interesting part. Jupiter and Saturn sit 3°18′ apart inside the group, and those two meet roughly once every twenty years, so the stellium has a generation’s marker buried in it.

Neptune barely moved that day, 0.001° in twenty-four hours. A planet running that slowly is at a station, the point where its apparent direction reverses, and this chart catches it in the pause.

Every placement, to the arcminute

The sky over Houston, Texas, US across September 4, 1981. Ranges cover the whole day. Tropical · solar whole-sign houses.

BodySignPositionHouseMotion
Sun Virgo11°35′ Virgo → 12°33′ Virgo1stDirect
Moon Scorpio15°56′ Scorpio → 27°50′ Scorpio3rdDirect
Mercury Libra1°55′ Libra → 3°25′ Libra2ndDirect
Venus Libra19°44′ Libra → 20°55′ Libra2ndDirect
Mars Leo1°21′ Leo → 1°59′ Leo12thDirect
Jupiter Libra12°18′ Libra → 12°30′ Libra2ndDirect
Saturn Libra9°00′ Libra → 9°07′ Libra2ndDirect
Uranus Scorpio26°27′ Scorpio → 26°29′ Scorpio3rdDirect
Neptune Sagittarius22°05′ Sagittarius4thDirect
Pluto Libra22°39′ Libra → 22°41′ Libra2ndDirect
Chiron Taurus22°50′ Taurus9th Retrograde
Black Moon Lilith Scorpio27°47′ Scorpio → 27°54′ Scorpio3rdDirect · mean
North Node Cancer29°29′ Cancer → 29°25′ Cancer11th Retrograde · mean
South Node Capricorn29°29′ Capricorn → 29°25′ Capricorn5th Retrograde · mean

The Moon that day

Waxing Crescent

Read from the day’s range; the exact face depends on the hour.

The shape of this sky

The ten classical planets, weighed by element and modality. Only sign-certain placements are counted.

Elements

  • Fire
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Water

Modalities

  • Cardinal
  • Fixed
  • Mutable

Marks of the moment

  • Born under a Waxing Crescent Moon
  • No planets were retrograde
  • Houses are solar: whole signs from the Sun

How the planets sit with each other

Aspects are the working relationships in a chart, listed tightest first. A smaller orb is a stronger contact. Contacts marked "part of the day" depend on the unknown birth time.

Tension

Squares and oppositions: friction that makes the engine turn.

  • Moon opposition Chiron 0.1–6.9° part of the day
  • Uranus opposition Chiron 3.6–3.7°· all day

Flow

Trines and sextiles: what runs easily, sometimes too easily.

  • Neptune sextile Pluto 0.6° exact all day
  • Mercury sextile Mars 0.6–1.4°· all day
  • Venus sextile Neptune 1.2–2.4°· all day
  • Black Moon Lilith trine North Node 1.5–1.7°· all day
  • Moon trine North Node 1.6–13.5° part of the day
  • Uranus trine North Node 2.9–3.0° part of the day
  • Moon trine Mars 4.2–15.4° part of the day
  • Sun sextile Moon 4.4–15.3° part of the day
  • Mars trine Uranus 4.9–5.5° part of the day

Fused

Conjunctions: planets standing so close they act as one.

  • Moon conjunction Black Moon Lilith 0.1–11.8° part of the day
  • Moon conjunction Uranus 0.4–10.5° part of the day
  • Uranus conjunction Black Moon Lilith 1.3–1.4°· all day
  • Venus conjunction Pluto 1.8–2.9°· all day
  • Mars conjunction North Node 1.9–2.6°· all day
  • Jupiter conjunction Saturn 3.3–3.4°· all day
  • Mercury conjunction Saturn 5.7–7.1° part of the day
The full aspect grid

The astrologer’s aspectarian: each glyph on the stair names its row and its column. Hover any symbol for the contact in words.

Sun Sun
Moon Sun Sextile Moon, orb 4.4–15.3°, in orb part of the day Moon
Mercury Mercury
Venus Venus
Mars Moon Trine Mars, orb 4.2–15.4°, in orb part of the day Mercury Sextile Mars, orb 0.6–1.4° Mars
Jupiter Jupiter
Saturn Mercury Conjunction Saturn, orb 5.7–7.1°, in orb part of the day Jupiter Conjunction Saturn, orb 3.3–3.4° Saturn
Uranus Moon Conjunction Uranus, orb 0.4–10.5°, in orb part of the day Mars Trine Uranus, orb 4.9–5.5°, in orb part of the day Uranus
Neptune Venus Sextile Neptune, orb 1.2–2.4° Neptune
Pluto Venus Conjunction Pluto, orb 1.8–2.9° Neptune Sextile Pluto, orb 0.6° Pluto
Chiron Moon Opposition Chiron, orb 0.1–6.9°, in orb part of the day Uranus Opposition Chiron, orb 3.6–3.7° Chiron
Black Moon Lilith Moon Conjunction Black Moon Lilith, orb 0.1–11.8°, in orb part of the day Uranus Conjunction Black Moon Lilith, orb 1.3–1.4° Black Moon Lilith
North Node Moon Trine North Node, orb 1.6–13.5°, in orb part of the day Mars Conjunction North Node, orb 1.9–2.6° Uranus Trine North Node, orb 2.9–3.0°, in orb part of the day Black Moon Lilith Trine North Node, orb 1.5–1.7° North Node

Named shapes in this sky

Configurations detected from the aspects above; nothing here was assumed.

Stellium in Libra

Mercury Venus Jupiter Saturn Pluto

Three or more planets gathered in one sign: one theme, turned up loud.

Solar houses

Without a birth time there is no Ascendant, so houses here are whole signs counted from the Sun: the standard solar chart astrologers use when the clock is unknown.

1st Virgo
2nd Libra
3rd Scorpio
4th Sagittarius
5th Capricorn
6th Aquarius
7th Pisces
8th Aries
9th Taurus
10th Gemini
11th Cancer
12th Leo

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Beyoncé

  • Sun in Virgo
  • Moon in Scorpio
  • Rising unknown: no birth time
  • Born September 4, 1981 · Houston, Texas, US

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