Lionel Messi Birth Chart: Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon

Notes on this chart

The Moon was out of bounds for the whole of that day, and it travelled a long way while it was. Its declination ran between 26.07° and 27.89° north, nearly two degrees of movement, none of it inside the 23.44° that bounds the Sun.

Declination is the coordinate a chart wheel cannot draw, so none of that appears in the picture. What does appear is that the Moon covered twelve degrees of longitude the same day, 8°42′ to 20°48′ Gemini, without changing sign. For once the sign is not the uncertain part.

Five of the ten classical planets were retrograde, Mercury among them at 16°29′ Cancer and slipping back to 16°14′. Venus and Saturn reached an exact opposition somewhere in the day and never opened past 1°04′.

How we know this chart

His mother told a television programme he was born at 4:20 in the afternoon. A biography, and a local investigation that names the obstetrician, put the birth shortly before six in the morning. Both accounts are linked below, and no time is asserted.

Without a time, Undersky computes the sky across the whole of that day and never invents a Rising sign. Fast-moving bodies show their full range; aspects are labeled by whether they held all day. The same honest rules apply in the free calculator.

Sources

Telefe: Celia Cuccittini says her son was born at 4:20 in the afternoona disputed birth time
El Tiempo: a local reconstruction of the birth, naming the obstetrician, puts it shortly before six in the morninga disputed birth time
Wikipedia: Lionel Messibirth date, birthplace and identityas it read on August 31, 2026
Wikidata: Q615identity

Portrait: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Every placement, to the arcminute

The sky over Rosario, Argentina across June 24, 1987. Ranges cover the whole day. Tropical · solar whole-sign houses.

Body	Sign	Position	House	Motion
Sun	Cancer	2°06′ Cancer → 3°03′ Cancer	1st	Direct
Moon	Gemini	8°42′ Gemini → 20°48′ Gemini	12th	Direct
Mercury	Cancer	16°29′ Cancer → 16°14′ Cancer	1st	Retrograde
Venus	Gemini	15°43′ Gemini → 16°56′ Gemini	12th	Direct
Mars	Cancer	21°57′ Cancer → 22°36′ Cancer	1st	Direct
Jupiter	Aries	24°54′ Aries → 25°04′ Aries	10th	Direct
Saturn	Sagittarius	16°47′ Sagittarius → 16°43′ Sagittarius	6th	Retrograde
Uranus	Sagittarius	24°25′ Sagittarius → 24°23′ Sagittarius	6th	Retrograde
Neptune	Capricorn	6°45′ Capricorn → 6°43′ Capricorn	7th	Retrograde
Pluto	Scorpio	7°18′ Scorpio	5th	Retrograde
Chiron	Gemini	23°04′ Gemini → 23°10′ Gemini	12th	Direct
Black Moon Lilith	Cancer	23°49′ Cancer → 23°56′ Cancer	1st	Direct · mean
North Node	Aries	7°16′ Aries → 7°13′ Aries	10th	Retrograde · mean
South Node	Libra	7°16′ Libra → 7°13′ Libra	4th	Retrograde · mean

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.

Venus opposition Saturn 0.0–1.1°· all day
Moon opposition Saturn 0.1–8.1° part of the day
Neptune square North Node 0.5° exact all day
Jupiter square Black Moon Lilith 1.1°· all day
Uranus opposition Chiron 1.2–1.3°· all day
Mars square Jupiter 2.5–3.0°· all day
Moon opposition Uranus 3.6–15.7° part of the day
Sun opposition Neptune 3.7–4.7°· all day
Sun opposition Uranus 7.7–8.7° part of the day

Flow

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

Jupiter trine Uranus 0.5–0.7° exact all day
Neptune sextile Pluto 0.6° exact all day
Moon sextile North Node 1.4–13.6° part of the day
Jupiter sextile Chiron 1.8–1.9°· all day
Sun trine Pluto 4.2–5.2°· all day
Moon sextile Jupiter 4.3–16.2° part of the day

Fused

Conjunctions: planets standing so close they act as one.

Moon conjunction Venus 0.3–7.0°· all day
Mars conjunction Black Moon Lilith 1.3–1.9°· all day
Moon conjunction Chiron 2.4–14.4° part of the day
Mercury conjunction Mars 5.5–6.4° 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		Moon
Mercury			Mercury
Venus		Moon Conjunction Venus, orb 0.3–7.0°		Venus
Mars			Mercury Conjunction Mars, orb 5.5–6.4°, in orb part of the day		Mars
Jupiter		Moon Sextile Jupiter, orb 4.3–16.2°, in orb part of the day			Mars Square Jupiter, orb 2.5–3.0°	Jupiter
Saturn		Moon Opposition Saturn, orb 0.0–8.1°, in orb part of the day		Venus Opposition Saturn, orb 0.0–1.1°			Saturn
Uranus	Sun Opposition Uranus, orb 7.7–8.7°, in orb part of the day	Moon Opposition Uranus, orb 3.6–15.7°, in orb part of the day				Jupiter Trine Uranus, orb 0.5–0.7°		Uranus
Neptune	Sun Opposition Neptune, orb 3.7–4.7°								Neptune
Pluto	Sun Trine Pluto, orb 4.2–5.2°								Neptune Sextile Pluto, orb 0.6°	Pluto
Chiron		Moon Conjunction Chiron, orb 2.4–14.4°, in orb part of the day				Jupiter Sextile Chiron, orb 1.8–1.9°		Uranus Opposition Chiron, orb 1.2–1.3°			Chiron
Black Moon Lilith					Mars Conjunction Black Moon Lilith, orb 1.3–1.9°	Jupiter Square Black Moon Lilith, orb 1.1°						Black Moon Lilith
North Node		Moon Sextile North Node, orb 1.4–13.6°, in orb part of the day							Neptune Square North Node, orb 0.5°				North Node

Stellium in Cancer

Sun Mercury Mars

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

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Lionel

Sun in Cancer
Moon in Gemini
Rising unknown: no birth time
Born June 24, 1987 · Rosario, Argentina

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Lionel Messi

Notes on this chart

Every placement, to the arcminute

The Moon that day

The shape of this sky

Elements

Modalities

Marks of the moment

How the planets sit with each other

Tension

Flow

Fused

Named shapes in this sky

Stellium in Cancer

Solar houses

Who else lives under this sky

Lionel’s sky, beside yours

Lionel

You

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Bodies drawn

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