Famous People Born with the Moon in Virgo

That 8.3% is the fraction of hours, sampled across two centuries with precise astronomical calculations, in which the Moon stood in Virgo; it lands near one twelfth, since the Moon's changes of speed even out over the years. On 2,213 settled entries it predicts about 185 Virgo Moons, and the page holds 207, a surplus of about 22.

Measured against the scatter that random draws of 2,213 births would produce, the surplus is more than one standard deviation and less than two. The same roster is split twelve ways, one page per Moon sign, so gaps of this order are expected somewhere among them by chance, and singling one out after looking makes it seem larger than it is. No significance test was run, and nothing here suggests a Virgo Moon helps anyone become widely read.

The roster bends the share too. People enter it by readership, not as a random draw of births, and entertainers make up 44% of its 2,213 settled entries, so a sign that catches a few extra actors gains names for reasons unrelated to the Moon. An entry without a birth time counts only if the Moon stayed in Virgo from local midnight to midnight; a date on which it crossed into or out of the sign hangs on the hour, so it drops out of both the 207 and the 2,213. A databank chart with a recorded birth time is placed by that hour instead.

Entertainment supplies 99 names, 48% here compared with 44% roster-wide, where the roster's own mix predicts about 91. That excess sits in the same band as the page's overall surplus, between one and two standard deviations of the spread random draws would give, and it was not tested either. With ten fields on the page, some drifting this far from their predictions is to be expected.

Sports, the second field, misses its prediction by one: 34 athletes where the mix calls for 35. Music runs two short with 24, and the arts, at 20, edge out politics, at 17.

Cards follow the roster's demand score. Rob Reiner, the American filmmaker and actor born March 6, 1947, is first, with Elon Musk, born June 28, 1971, and Kennedy, born May 29, 1917, behind him. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, born August 27, 1908, appears further down, so two consecutive American presidents land on this page, a coincidence of the calendar.

Only two cards print a Moon degree, for the people whose databank chart has a birth time from a record: Musk at 8°14′ Virgo and Kennedy at 17°12′. Madonna and the tennis player Serena Williams also have databank charts, yet nobody has traced where their published birth hours came from, which leaves both cards without a degree. Madonna's birth date, August 16, 1958, is also the actress Angela Bassett's, and both are listed by the date alone, which requires the Moon to have stayed in Virgo for all of that day where each was born.

Friedrich Engels, born November 28, 1820, is the earliest member and the Formula One driver Kimi Antonelli, born August 25, 2006, the latest; only 13 were born before 1900. The 1980s lead with 29, one ahead of the 1970s, and the five decades from the 1940s through the 1980s hold 130, or 63% of the list.

The count eases from 6 in the 1890s to 5 in the 1900s, then climbs toward the 1980s with two dips on the way: the 1930s fall back to 12 after the 1920s gave 17, and the 1950s slip to 21 after 25 for the 1940s. The drops are five and four names, so moving a few births across a decade line would flatten either one.