Beyoncé's Birth Chart

Rank combines how seldom a feature appears among 1980s charts with the weight astrologers give it. Of the eight, six hold from midnight to midnight; the lone Sun needs a birth after 4:01 AM and the western tilt an evening one.

The Sun's only aspect is a trine to the Midheaven, 6°28′ wide, lapsing at 9:53 PM. No planet reaches it (about one chart in 20), and Pluto touches it only by declination, a parallel within 0°11′. Modern astrologers read so solitary a Sun as an identity run on its own terms.

The tightest contact, 0°15′ from exact, sets the Moon on Uranus in Scorpio, which psychological astrologers tie to abrupt shifts of mood; it held from 5:28 AM. Venus is conjunct Pluto all day, 1°52′ apart here, and squares the Midheaven by the same margin only from 9:24 PM to 10:24 PM.

Her State of Texas birth certificate, a City of Houston certified copy, appears with most fields blurred in the COWBOY CARTER Art Book, its time field reading 9:47 P. A fan account posted a low-resolution photo of the page on X on April 17, 2025; a news site gave the same time a day later. With the hospital blurred, the chart uses Houston's coordinates and Central Daylight Time, UTC−5.

Until 2025 astrologers used a morning hour, a family recollection the AstroTwins took by phone in 2003 and have worded as about 10:00 AM or 10:30 AM; they now call it a morning-evening mix-up. Either gives Libra rising, a day chart, Venus as ruler and a new house for all ten planets, though no planet changes sign.

Aries rose from 8:25 PM to 9:50 PM, tied with Pisces as the day's quickest rise at Houston, so the written minute falls 3 minutes short of Taurus. Back the clock up and Aries lasts 1 hour 21 minutes, though Neptune, the Moon, the Sun and Uranus shift house within 17 minutes; forward, every house holds 48 minutes.

Mercury through Pluto were all moving direct (about one chart in 4); Neptune had turned direct about two days earlier, leaving Chiron the only retrograde point. None is out of bounds: Neptune, at 21°53′ south, comes nearest the limit of 23°26′.

Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Pluto fill Libra, a grouping common in the decade (about 48%), and are the chart's only air planets (five or more in air: about one chart in 11). The planets span 140°09′, a bowl among Marc Edmund Jones's chart shapes, and every one sits in the western houses (about one chart in 5 for eight or more there). That tilt lasts from 5:55 PM until 2:37 AM on September 5; the morning hours put every planet east.

Any birth from 7:36 PM to 7:04 AM next morning gives a night chart, with the Moon leading the sect and Venus the favored benefic. Venus, at home in Libra (about one chart in 7), heads the strength table; exalted Saturn (about one chart in 4) ranks second but sits out of sect. The Moon's fall in Scorpio (about one chart in 12), a strain to medieval astrologers, is offset at this minute by its angular 7th house. Mars, ruler under both schemes, runs fast and in sect from the 4th house; Mercury stands 20°49′ away from the Sun, beyond its beams.

Roger Federer, the databank's nearest chart, shares her Scorpio Moon. Bongbong Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos and Freddie Mercury follow on the Virgo Sun; the elder Marcos adds a Mercury within a degree of hers, and Freddie Mercury's Sun sits almost on hers.

Lahiri's correction of 23°35′ returns the Sun to Simha (Leo) and the Libra group to Kanya, where Jyotish counts Venus as debilitated; the Moon stays in Vrishchika, 0°08′ from its deepest debilitation. Mesha lagna, at 5°23′, holds from 9:31 PM to 11:05 PM; the morning wordings would have meant a Tula Moon and a Kanya or Tula lagna.

Saturn first returned on October 12, 2010, in one direct pass; Jupiter's first two returns took three passes each, its third a single crossing on November 7, 2016.

Longitudes come from precise astronomical calculations and Placidus houses, which at this minute leave Taurus and Scorpio intercepted, a pair present from 9:44 PM to 10:42 PM. Rates compare the chart with simulated births across the 1980s, measuring frequency, not meaning.