Tupac Shakur's Birth Chart

From 25°48′ Pisces at the opening midnight the Moon ran to 10°00′ Aries by the closing one, changing sign at 7:05:38 AM: 7 hours 5 minutes of Pisces Moon, then 16 hours 54 minutes of Aries Moon, so a random hour falls in Aries 70% of the time. Such a change within one birth date occurs on about 44% of sampled 1970s dates. Robinson's account leans toward Aries without settling it.

Every sign took a turn on the East Harlem horizon that day, Aquarius twice: up since 10:43 PM the evening before, it rose again at 10:39 PM. A birth hours after afternoon labor began would most likely follow Libra's rise at 1:18 PM, leaving Libra through the second Aquarius. Sunset at 8:29 PM leaves even day or night open, and no houses are computed.

Ranking weighs frequency against the attention astrologers give a feature, putting combust Mercury above the less common air emphasis. Further down: Saturn in a final degree (about one chart in 4 has a traditional planet so placed), Jupiter retrograde (about 30% of charts) and a last-quarter Moon phase held all day (about one chart in 8).

Mercury ran from 17°57′ Gemini to 20°06′ Gemini, moving swiftly and trailing the Sun by 6°25′ when the day opened and 5°13′ when it closed. Medieval authors called a planet that close combust and counted it weakened; the far tighter cazimi exception does not apply. Yet Mercury rules Gemini by the dignity tables, true of about one chart in 6, so tradition pits strength by sign against weakness by position.

The Sun (24°22′ to 25°19′), Mercury and Venus fill Gemini, while Aquarius holds Mars and Libra holds Uranus, completing the air group. Fire and water hold one planet each, Neptune and Jupiter, so the Moon breaks the tie: water before 7:05 AM, fire after. Saturn, at 29°49′ of Taurus as the date closed and some 36 hours short of Gemini, opposed Jupiter, retrograde at 28°44′ Scorpio; retrograde Uranus was one day from turning direct.

At noon the Sun's declination, 23°20′ north, sat 0°06′ below its yearly limit, with Mercury parallel 0°01′ away; neither was out of bounds.

Among the 13 all-day aspects, Mercury trine Mars was closest, exact at some moment. The Sun squared Pluto within 2°37′. Saturn opposed Jupiter by 1°03′ and Neptune by 1°19′, while Jupiter and Neptune were conjunct across the Scorpio–Sagittarius line; four of the day's aspects straddle sign lines like this, a type some astrologers discount.

The Moon's contacts turn on the hour. The Sun–Moon square ended at 1:21 PM and the Moon's trine to Neptune at 8:22 PM; after that, only its sextile to Venus and opposition to Uranus remained.

The databank's closest matches are Rahul Gandhi, Morgan Freeman, Prince and Angelina Jolie. Lacking a Moon or rising sign, each shares only the Gemini Sun with Shakur. Nobody else in the roster has his birth date.

In Lahiri's reckoning, 23°27′ behind the tropical one on this date, the Sun (0°54′ of Gemini), Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto keep their signs. Mars backs into Capricorn, Uranus settles in Virgo and Neptune in Scorpio; Mercury and Venus land in Taurus beside Saturn. The Moon, 2°20′ to 16°33′ of the sign, never leaves sidereal Pisces.

Jupiter came round to its natal degree first on December 19, 1982, at age 11, then on December 3, 1994, at 23. Shakur died on September 13, 1996, aged 25, before Saturn completed a circuit, so no Saturn return is listed.

Precise astronomical calculations placed each body at both midnights bounding June 16, 1971, at coordinates for the hospital's block, on Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4). A condition, Mercury's combustion included, counts only when both ends agree, and aspects were sampled every 10 minutes of the local date. Each rate is the fraction of a computed sample of 1970s births, at random moments and cities, that shows the feature.