Celebrity Birth Charts

How reliable is a celebrity's birth time?

The date of birth is usually public; the minute is not. Astro-Databank grades every birth time with the Rodden rating, a system created by the astrologer Lois Rodden. We list the top three grades; a B chart carries a note next to its birth time.

• AA from a birth certificate or birth record (listed here)
• A quoted by the person, family or a friend (listed here)
• B from a biography (listed here)
• C caution, source not known
• DD conflicting times, none confirmed

The rating matters most for the rising sign. It changes about every two hours, and near the edge of a sign a few minutes decide it: Beyoncé's certificate time puts her ascendant in the last degree of Aries, and three minutes later Taurus was rising. The Sun sign almost never depends on the hour, and the Moon only on some days.

Who is not on the list, and why

These people are searched for just as often, but their birth time is not confirmed, so we do not draw a full chart for them. Their Sun sign is still certain from the date.

How to read a celebrity chart

Read it the way you would read your own: the Sun, Moon and rising sign first, then each planet in its sign and house, then the aspects. Our birth chart calculator explains each step and draws your own chart in the same format, and the Sun, Moon and rising page shows how often each combination comes up.

Keep one limit in mind. A chart describes what the astrological tradition says about a moment; it does not explain why someone became famous. Thousands of people were born in the same hour, and many of the patterns that look striking in a famous chart, such as Beyoncé's five planets in Libra, were shared by everyone born in the same weeks.

Questions about celebrity birth charts

Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science. We publish birth data only with its source and rating and make no claims about anyone's character, health or private life. Birth data from Astro-Databank (Astrodienst); positions from our own calculation with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, tropical zodiac.