Lady Gaga's Birth Chart

The ranking scales each feature's frequency among simulated 1980s births by a weight for its kind: Mercury near a station (about one chart in 7), Mercury retrograde (about one chart in 5), no planet in air (about one chart in 9), the Sun exalted in Aries (about one chart in 12), the Moon's fall in Scorpio (about one chart in 12), Mars exalted in Capricorn (about one chart in 10), Mars beyond the solstice declination (about one chart in 6) and Mercury's detriment in Pisces (about one chart in 6). None of the eight hangs on the hour.

Astrotheme credits 9:53 AM to a tweet by Gaga, 2:00 PM and 5:07 PM to her statements and 10:55 PM to an unnamed source, linking none. The trail for the morning time ends at The Christian Post's birthday item of March 28, 2012, quoting an unnamed fan, not Gaga. None is better sourced, so the page casts the most widely repeated. All four are on Eastern Standard Time, UTC−5; New York's clocks did not go forward until April 27, 1986.

The casts share every planet's sign, the Moon's included: it held Scorpio from 3:05 PM the afternoon before to 4:20 PM the afternoon after. The Ascendant goes from Gemini to Leo, Virgo and Sagittarius, all ten planets change house at each alternative, and only 10:55 PM is a night birth.

Gemini rose over Manhattan from 8:10 AM to 10:05 AM. Later by 5 minutes, the Sun moves to the 10th house; by 13 minutes, Cancer is rising; by 14 minutes, Mars slips into the 6th house. Earlier, nothing changes house for 20 minutes.

Mercury stands at 18°04′ Pisces, backing up only 0°10′ a day and 19°33′ clear of the Sun; many astrologers count a planet that near standing still as emphasized. Mars, in Capricorn for less than a day, sits at 0°14′ Capricorn and dips 23°29′ south of the equator, just 0°02′ past the 23°26′ that caps the Sun's own declination.

The tightest contact is minor: the Sun's quincunx to Pluto, 0°53′. Jupiter in its own sign squares retrograde Saturn (1°11′), a pairing older textbooks describe as growth pulling against restraint, and the Sun takes Saturn's trine (2°00′) and Neptune's square (1°50′). Mars opposite the Ascendant (3°02′, across a sign boundary) and Jupiter on the Midheaven (5°22′) are gone in the 2:00 PM cast.

Every planet lies within 167°25′, from Pluto at 6°44′ Scorpio round to Venus at 24°09′ Aries: a bowl, in Marc Edmund Jones's terms. Water leads with five of twelve counted points, and mutable signs hold six. Air has only the Gemini Ascendant (Chiron, also in Gemini, is not counted), and every rival time except 5:07 PM, which puts the Midheaven in Gemini, removes even that.

Sunrise came 4 hours 6 minutes before the adopted minute, and every candidate except 10:55 PM gives a day chart (sect calculator). Mars and Jupiter share the top dignity-and-condition score, 96 of 100. Mercury, the chart ruler, scores 23, last of the ten: Pisces is both its detriment and its fall in the essential dignities tables.

Mark Zuckerberg comes nearest, through the Scorpio Moon; Emma Watson, B. R. Ambedkar and Heath Ledger share the Aries Sun, Ambedkar with Jupiter within a degree of Gaga's too. The databank lists no one else born that day.

After Lahiri's 23°39′ correction, the Sun lands on 13°58′ Pisces and the Moon on 17°48′ Libra, signs no candidate hour alters. The sidereal Ascendant is still Gemini, 3°31′ into the sign; the rivals give Cancer, Virgo and Scorpio.

Saturn regained 9°37′ Sagittarius aged 29.7, crossing once with no retrograde loop. Jupiter came back on March 11, 1998, February 23, 2010 and February 6, 2022.

Each candidate was cast with precise astronomical calculations for Lenox Hill Hospital, at Wikidata's coordinates, in Placidus houses; the rates pit the chart against simulated 1980s births from random cities and hours.