Kendrick Lamar began releasing music as a teenager under the name K-Dot and signed with Top Dawg Entertainment. His first studio album, Section.80, came out in 2011, and good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012) debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. Time named him one of its 100 most influential people in 2016, and in 2018 Damn. became the first album outside classical and jazz to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
What the certificate leaves open
Astro-Databank's note for this chart is a single line: birth certificate in hand, from the collector Viktor E. The time is rated AA, and the entry lists no rival times.
A certificate gives the minute but not the room around it. Libra rose over Compton from 1:11 p.m. to 3:33 p.m. The birth fell 113 minutes into that stretch, and Scorpio began to rise at 3:34 p.m., 30 minutes after the recorded time. The Moon never changes sign that day.
| Point | Sign at birth | In that sign | Before and after |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising sign | ♎︎ Libra | 1:11 p.m. to 3:33 p.m. | Virgo before, Scorpio after |
| Midheaven | ♋︎ Cancer | 1:11 p.m. to 3:19 p.m. | Gemini before, Leo after |
| Moon | ♓︎ Pisces | all day | n/a |
Jupiter on the descendant, one minute from exact
The ascendant is at 23°53′ Libra, so the descendant, the cusp of the 7th house, sits at the same degree of Aries. Jupiter is at 23°54′ of Aries. Both read 23° in whole degrees, and the gap between Jupiter and the exact opposite point is about a minute of arc. Jupiter is in the 7th house under both Placidus and Whole Sign.
Jupiter is the planet of expansion in the tradition, and the 7th is the house of other people, partners and collaborators among them. Jupiter there is taken as growth that comes through dealing with others. Jupiter also trines Uranus in Sagittarius, 0°47′ from exact, a fire-to-fire link. The Sun makes a sextile to Jupiter, 2°17′ apart.
Our pages: Jupiter in Aries · Libra rising · 7th house · rising sign calculator.
Cancer at the midheaven, Leo close behind
The midheaven is at 26°23′ Cancer, late in the sign. Cancer held the top of the sky over Compton from 1:11 p.m. to 3:19 p.m., and Leo took it at 3:20 p.m., 16 minutes after the recorded time.
Mercury at 16°25′ and Mars at 17°58′, both in Cancer, are 1°33′ apart, in the same sign as the midheaven. Placidus puts both in the 9th house, which covers publishing and study. Whole Sign houses move them to the 10th, the house of career. Mercury stands for words and Mars for drive, so a pair like this is read as speech with force behind it.
Our pages: Cancer midheaven · Mercury in Cancer · Mars in Cancer · 10th house.
Gemini Sun opposite Uranus
The Sun is at 26°11′ of Gemini and Uranus at 24°40′ of Sagittarius, retrograde, 1°30′ from an exact opposition. In both house systems the Sun is in the 9th house and Uranus in the 3rd. That reverses the usual pairing. Tradition ties Gemini to the 3rd house of speech and writing and Sagittarius to the 9th, the house of publishing and long distance, yet here each planet sits in the house of the other sign.
Saturn is in Sagittarius too, at 17°14′. It is 7°26′ from Uranus and stands opposite the Sun by 8°57′, which is a wider orb. In the standard reading, a Sun-Uranus opposition pulls toward the original and unconventional. Venus, also in Gemini, is at 8°09′.
Our pages: Uranus in Sagittarius · Saturn in Sagittarius · Venus in Gemini · Gemini.
Pisces Moon in a water trine
The Moon is at 19°20′ of Pisces. It trines Mars, 1°22′ from exact, and Mercury, 2°55′ off, and both of those are in Cancer. That links three water placements in one triangle, a pattern read as feeling and imagination.
Placidus places the Moon in the 5th house, the house of creative work and performance. Whole Sign houses put it in the 6th. Saturn squares it, 2°06′ from exact, which astrologers read as discipline applied to mood.
Our pages: Moon in Pisces · moon sign calculator · Sun, Moon and rising together.
All major aspects between the planets in Kendrick Lamar's chart
- Neptune sextile Pluto orb 0°29′
- Jupiter trine Uranus orb 0°47′
- Moon trine Mars orb 1°22′
- Sun opposition Uranus orb 1°30′
- Mercury conjunction Mars orb 1°33′
- Moon square Saturn orb 2°06′
- Sun sextile Jupiter orb 2°17′
- Moon trine Mercury orb 2°55′
- Moon square Uranus orb 5°20′
- Mars square Jupiter orb 5°55′
- Jupiter trine Saturn orb 6°40′
- Sun square Moon orb 6°51′
- Saturn conjunction Uranus orb 7°26′
- Mercury square Jupiter orb 7°29′
- Sun opposition Saturn orb 8°57′
Orbs: 8° for conjunction, opposition, square and trine, 6° for sextile, 2° more when the Sun or Moon is involved; Node, Lilith, Ascendant and Midheaven not counted. Same rules as our birth chart calculator.
Questions about Kendrick Lamar's chart
What is Kendrick Lamar's rising sign?
Libra, at 23°53′ Libra. Libra rose over Compton from 1:11 p.m. to 3:33 p.m. on June 17, 1987.
What is Kendrick Lamar's moon sign?
His Moon is in Pisces, at 19°20′, and stayed there all day on June 17, 1987.
What zodiac sign is Kendrick Lamar?
Gemini. Born on June 17, 1987, he has his Sun at 26°11′ of Gemini.
What time was Kendrick Lamar born?
3:04 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time in Compton, California. The source is a birth certificate, graded AA.
Where is Kendrick Lamar's Jupiter?
In Aries, at 23°54′, in the 7th house. It is about one minute of arc from the descendant.
What is Kendrick Lamar's midheaven?
Cancer, at 26°23′ Cancer. Leo took over the midheaven at 3:20 p.m.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Astro-Databank (Astrodienst): published birth charts we test the calculation against
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
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Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science. This page explains what the tradition says about the placements in a published chart; it makes no claims about Kendrick Lamar's character, health or private life. Birth data: Astro-Databank (Astrodienst), checked October 20, 2026. Positions: our calculation with the astronomy-engine ephemeris; it matches the Sun, Moon and ascendant degrees Astro-Databank publishes for this chart to within one arc minute.