Taylor Swift's Birth Chart

Of the eight features ranked here, four hold whatever the hour: Mars and Venus unaspected, Jupiter exalted, Mercury out of bounds. The Sun stays unaspected at both reported times, on a thin margin: at 5:17 AM the Moon sits 0°06′ beyond the Sun–Moon opposition orb used here. The Moon and Jupiter on the Descendant and Mercury on the Ascendant exist only at 8:36 AM.

Astrotheme lists 8:36 AM, crediting a Sarah Oliver book, Inside Taylor Nation, that could not be checked, and flags it as disputed because other sources differ; astro-charts.com gives 5:17 AM, credited to Astrodienst, with no original source named. The date and place are firm: December 13, 1989, at Reading Hospital, West Reading, Pennsylvania (TODAY, December 2023), on Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5). This page uses 8:36 AM: it is the only one credited to a named book.

At 5:17 AM, before the 7:18 AM sunrise, 25°33′ Scorpio is rising and all ten planets change house. Sagittarius held the horizon in between, from 5:39 AM to 8:01 AM, so splitting the difference yields a third rising sign. The Moon had entered Cancer at 2:48 AM, before either time.

Even at 8:36 AM, Capricorn rising holds only 34 minutes back and 1 hour 20 minutes forward. A birth less than a minute later would already shift Mars to the 10th house; 3 minutes later shifts Mercury to the 12th, and 3 minutes earlier shifts Jupiter to the 7th.

Mars at 26°46′ Scorpio receives no major aspect from any planet (about one chart in 21). The Sun at 21°31′ Sagittarius is just as bare (about one chart in 20), and so is Venus at 1°54′ Aquarius (about one chart in 14), touching only the Midheaven and, by quincunx, the Moon. Some astrologers say such a planet acts on its own, apart from the rest of the chart; others give the idea little weight.

The two tightest aspects between planets both span Capricorn and Cancer: the Moon opposite Uranus and Mercury opposite Jupiter, each within 1°09′.

At 8:36 AM Mercury lies 0°37′ past the Ascendant (about one chart in 15), Jupiter 0°32′ short of the Descendant (about one chart in 15) and the Moon 4°42′ short of it (about one chart in 9). Tradition weights planets this near the horizon heavily, if the time holds.

Beyond the Sun's 23°26′ limit of declination lie three planets: Mercury at 25°25′ south, the Moon at 26°57′ north and Uranus at 23°37′ south, the last by only 0°11′. An out-of-bounds Mercury turns up in about one chart in 8.

From Pluto to Venus, eight planets crowd into 75°24′; the Moon and Jupiter face them from Cancer across gaps of 151°35′ and 128°49′. The chart pattern analyzer calls this a seesaw (about 30% of the decade's charts). Earth and water tie at five points each at either time; fire and air have only the Sun and Venus.

The Sun had gained 11°00′ of altitude by 8:36 AM, so the chart counts as diurnal. Saturn, ruler of the rising sign, holds four traditional strengths: day sect, its own sign, the 1st house and fast motion. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer (about one chart in 23) yet is the only retrograde planet. The Moon tops the site's strength score; Mercury, 17°18′ from the Sun and without essential dignity, comes last.

The databank's matching skips the Moon, which changed sign that morning, and the rising sign, which needs an exact hour. Brad Pitt's planets sit nearest hers, then Pope Francis's, Manny Pacquiao's and Billie Eilish's, though the Sagittarius Sun is the only sign each shares with her. The roster holds no other birth that day.

Removing Lahiri's ayanamsa of 23°43′ moves the Sun to 27°48′ Scorpio, the Moon to 9°47′ Gemini and Jupiter to 13°57′ Gemini, outside its exaltation. The lagna falls at 14°29′ Sagittarius at 8:36 AM; the other time would give 1°50′ Scorpio.

Saturn's first return was one clean crossing, on January 18, 2019. Jupiter's first stretched across three crossings between August 19, 2001 and April 6, 2002; the next two, on July 30, 2013 and July 13, 2025, needed one pass apiece.

Positions come from precise astronomical calculations; houses are Placidus, cast for West Reading. Rates compare Swift's features with simulated 1980s births drawn from world cities at all hours.