Famous People Born with the Moon in Aries

The 1970s are the busiest decade at 31, one more than the 1960s, and the pair hold 34% of the list. Angelina Jolie, the Film actor, director and humanitarian born on June 4, 1975, counts toward the 1970s. The count then falls to 15, 48% of the decade before and below every decade from the 1940s on except the 2000s, which the roster's adults-only rule cuts short. The 1990s climb back to 19.

The basketball player LeBron James, born December 30, 1984, and Rihanna, the Singer, entrepreneur and actress, born February 20, 1988, are two of those 15. Across the whole settled-Moon roster the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s each supply nearly the same number of people, so the dip is this list's own. Split one roster by Moon sign and again by decade, and some small cells stray this far by luck; nothing here tests the 1980s beyond that.

The roster files actors, film directors, comedians, presenters and models under entertainment, and they take 83 places where the roster's rate predicts 78: 46% of the list against 44% of all settled Moons. Sports runs the other way, 26 against 30, and music matches its rate at 22. Each gap is inside one binomial standard deviation.

Arts comes fourth with 19 names and politics fifth with 17. Writers fill most of the arts places, among them Twain and Roald Dahl, the British writer and poet, born September 13, 1916.

Over 1800 to 2009, Aries held the Moon for 8.3% of all hours, slightly below one twelfth, which predicts about 184.2 of the 2,213 settled entries. The list has 179, an observed share of 8.1%: 5.2 short, or 2.8% under the forecast. A binomial model puts that at less than half a standard deviation, and a gap at least that wide comes up by chance more often than not.

A readership ranking is no random draw; its lean toward recent decades and screen careers shapes the counts above but has little grip on this share, since the Moon passes through Aries about 13.4 times a year in every decade. What remains is mostly chance, and this shortfall sits well within it.

Chuck Norris, the American martial artist and action actor, born March 10, 1940, heads the cards, which follow the roster's demand order; James is second. Most cards give no Moon degree, since the Moon moves about 13.2 degrees between one local midnight and the next.

The five cards that show a degree draw it from a sourced birth time in the record, among them James at 16°41′ of Aries. Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder born February 24, 1955, stands at 7°44′ and is listed only because of that time: the Moon crossed from Pisces into Aries during his birth date, so the date test would have dropped him. His chart page gives the minute of that crossing.