LeBron James's Birth Chart

Jupiter's fall, Jupiter under the Sun's beams, Mercury's detriment and the absence of retrograde planets from Mercury to Pluto hold all day on December 30. The other six ranked features depend on the clock, and the earlier time drops the first, pushing the Sun 12°54′ from its Descendant.

A time quoted by the person, a relative or an associate stands below one copied from a document; this one rests on one joking remark, with no second report found. Akron kept Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5) that day, daylight saving time having ended on October 28, 1984.

Astrotheme and astro-charts.com print 4:04 PM; Astrotheme credits it to a contributor's birth record, yet neither site shows the document, so it counts here as a lead. Cast for it, the Ascendant drops to 26°27′ Gemini and Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune change house.

Cancer rose from 4:19 PM until 6:41 PM, and about 33% of 1980s births fall no more than 20 minutes from a change of rising sign. The Moon sits 0°51′ past the eleventh cusp and would slip into the tenth with a birth 3 minutes later, Saturn into the sixth with one 9 minutes earlier.

The Sun (9°23′ Capricorn) and Jupiter (21°12′ Capricorn) sit above the Descendant in the seventh house. Neptune, at 1°26′ Capricorn, lies just below it in the sixth, 3°02′ from the angle and closer to it than the Sun. Traditional authors count a planet that near an angle among a chart's most prominent and give the seventh to partners and open rivals.

Nothing from Mercury to Pluto is retrograde, true of about one chart in 4 born in the 1980s; Chiron alone carries the R mark. The Sun's declination, 23°06′ south, is the chart's furthest from the equator, and no body is out of bounds.

Mars in Pisces trines Pluto in Scorpio, the tightest contact here, and the Ascendant trines both within 0°11′. Some astrologers would count the three as a grand trine; this page's pattern search uses planets only and lists none.

The Sun-Moon square is 7°17′ wide, a pairing seen in about one chart in 10 born in the 1980s, with the Moon at its first quarter. Modern writers tie that phase to friction between intention and action.

Only the Moon lies east of the meridian; the other nine planets sit in the fifth through ninth houses, a western tilt found in about one chart in 5 born in the 1980s. Spanning 162°21′ from Pluto to the Moon, they form a bowl (pattern analyzer). Counting the Ascendant and Midheaven, water and cardinal signs lead the balance; Venus is the only planet in an air sign.

The Sun was 3°32′ up and set at 5:06 PM, so both candidate times give a day chart, placing the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn in sect (sect calculator).

Jupiter, in its fall (about one chart in 10 born in the 1980s), is also 11°48′ from the Sun, under the beams. Mercury, in detriment (about one chart in 6 born in the 1980s), cadent and slow, scores lowest on the strength table at 38; Pluto in Scorpio scores 85 and Saturn, lord of the geniture, 77.

Dalí's chart comes closest, on both signs, though the rising match holds only if James's 4:39 PM does. Lewis Hamilton follows on a Capricorn Sun with Jupiter and Saturn near James's; Deepika Padukone shares only the Sun sign, and Ratan Tata the Sun sign with Mars within a degree. No other page has his birth date.

Taking 23°38′ off every longitude, the Lahiri correction, turns this into a Sagittarius Sun and a Pisces Moon with Gemini rising. Jupiter moves into Sagittarius, a sign it rules, so its fall belongs to the tropical chart only.

Saturn completed its first return on November 7, 2014, crossing the natal degree once. Jupiter has passed over its birth position seven times across three returns, from December 14, 1996 to November 2, 2020, the second and third each adding a retrograde loop.

Precise astronomical calculations fix every position for 21:39 UTC on December 30, 1984 at the hospital's coordinates, 41°04′ N, 81°30′ W. The rates come from simulated 1980s births run through this same pipeline.