The life of Beyoncé
Who is Beyoncé?
Beyoncé built a solo career that reshaped how albums are released, from the surprise drop of Beyoncé in 2013 to the visual album Lemonade in April 2016. She first performed as a teenager in Destiny's Child, the best-selling girl group of its era, and married JAY-Z in April 2008. Her later records move through house, country and Black American musical history, each framed as an argument rather than a collection of songs.
Defining moments
Beyoncé's child Sir Carter is born
Arriving 51 days after Sir Carter's birth, Uranus conjunct her Ascendant in the 12th house marked a private awakening during a powerful window of personal transformation.
The Birth in the timeline ↓JAY-Z and Beyoncé marry
The Marriage in the timeline ↓44th Annual Grammy Awards
Arriving 177 days after the Grammys, a powerful Uranus square to the eleventh-house Moon signaled sudden emotional disruptions within peer circles.
The Award in the timeline ↓Beyoncé's birth chart
This is how a birth chart reads: the wheel plots Beyoncé's placements at the moment of birth, and the three below anchor everything else on this page. Try it on your own chart to run the same read on a chart of your own.
☾ Born Sep 4, 1981 · 9:47 PM CDT · Houston, Texas · Birth data: AA · See sources
3 placements that explain this chart
With a Virgo Sun in the fifth house acting as an elemental singleton against heavy air placements, Beyoncé treats performance and album production as disciplined, structural art forms.
The core drive: exacting, useful, and quietly proud of the details no one else notices.
The emotional undercurrent: intense, private, and allergic to anything shallow.
The first impression: first through the door, decisive, and impatient with anything half-done.
How Beyoncé's chart holds together
Twelve systems read the same birth chart twelve different ways. Match your chart to see how yours lines up with Beyoncé's.
This is what a whole chart looks like at once, before it breaks into individual placements: where the element and modality weight sits, and how the four quadrants divide.
Elements and modalities
Air-led and cardinal by a slight margin.
Elements × modalities
| Cardinal | Fixed | Mutable | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🜂 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 🜃 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 🜁 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 🜄 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
Elements
Modalities
No dominant planet is named because two planets score equally.
Some charts hold a recognizable shape across several placements at once. This is what a pattern reading looks like when one is present.
Chart patterns that stand out
Sun unaspected: running with no major aspect to anchor it
See celebrities with this pattern →Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn & Pluto loading up one modality
See celebrities with this pattern →Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn & Pluto loading up one element
See celebrities with this pattern →Frequencies are measured against the profile corpus, not asserted.
Twelve systems read Beyoncé's chart
the full reading
13 placements in the chart signature →The same birth data, read through each system in turn: this is what a full multi-system reading looks like on one chart.
Natal Chart
placidus houses
Full natal readingCollapse
Exact planetary positions
● Sun, Moon or chart ruler · ℞ retrograde
| Body | Position | House | Motion | Theme | Sabian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chiron | ♉︎ Taurus 22°50' | 1 | ℞ | — | — |
| North node | ♌︎ Leo 0°48' | 4 | ℞ | — | — |
| Mars | ♌︎ Leo 1°56' | 4 | - | — | — |
| Sun | ♍︎ Virgo 12°27' | 5 | - | — | — |
| Mercury | ♎︎ Libra 3°17' | 6 | - | — | — |
| Saturn | ♎︎ Libra 9°06' | 6 | - | — | — |
| Jupiter | ♎︎ Libra 12°29' | 6 | - | — | — |
| Venus | ♎︎ Libra 20°48' | 6 | - | — | — |
| Pluto | ♎︎ Libra 22°40' | 6 | - | — | — |
| Uranus | ♏︎ Scorpio 26°29' | 7 | - | — | — |
| Moon | ♏︎ Scorpio 26°44' | 7 | - | — | — |
| Lilith | ♏︎ Scorpio 27°53' | 7 | - | — | — |
| Neptune | ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°05' | 8 | - | — | — |
| South node | ♒︎ Aquarius 0°48' | — | - | — | — |
| House | Cusp sign | Degree | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 1 | ♈︎ Aries | 29°00' | ⚷ |
| House 2 | ♊︎ Gemini | 0°48' | - |
| House 3 | ♊︎ Gemini | 25°40' | - |
| House 4 | ♋︎ Cancer | 18°56' | ☊♂︎ |
| House 5 | ♌︎ Leo | 14°49' | ☉︎ |
| House 6 | ♍︎ Virgo | 17°39' | ☿︎♄︎♃︎♀︎♇︎ |
| House 7 | ♎︎ Libra | 29°00' | ♅︎☽︎⚸ |
| House 8 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 0°48' | ♆︎ |
| House 9 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 25°40' | - |
| House 10 | ♑︎ Capricorn | 18°56' | - |
| House 11 | ♒︎ Aquarius | 14°49' | - |
| House 12 | ♓︎ Pisces | 17°39' | - |
Full aspects · 28
Chart patterns
House system: placidus · Birth time: sourced, Rodden AA · Angles trusted
Transits
Lifetime cosmic weather & power windows
- 2000s10 EVENTS
43rd Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Saturn opposition Moon
Eighty-four days before the Grammys, Saturn opposed the first-house Moon in an exact power transit, marking a period of intense emotional discipline that preceded the ceremony.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2001Collapse
Aug 25Feb 21Aug 20Aug 25, 2000 – Aug 20, 2001 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Sunslow
- Saturn opposition Moonslow
- Uranus trine Venusslow
- Chiron trine Ascendantslow
- Jupiter sextile Marsfast
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
44th Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Uranus square Moon
Arriving 177 days after the Grammys, a powerful Uranus square to the eleventh-house Moon signaled sudden emotional disruptions within peer circles.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2002Collapse
Sep 3Feb 27Aug 23Sep 3, 2001 – Aug 23, 2002 · 354 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus square Moonslow
- Jupiter square Mercuryfast
American Music Awards 2003
Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 4
No dated transit window covers this date in Beyoncé's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
46th Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 4
3 passages in force · Pluto sextile Venus · Chiron square Venus · Jupiter trine Midheaven
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2004Collapse
Aug 12Feb 8Aug 6Aug 12, 2003 – Aug 6, 2004 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Venusslow
- Chiron square Venusslow
- Jupiter trine Midheavenfast
American Music Awards 2004
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 4
No dated transit window covers this date in Beyoncé's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
48th Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 3 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Uranus opposition Sun
Arriving 217 days after the Grammy win, Uranus opposition Sun in the eleventh house marked a power window that challenged peer expectations and radically altered public standing.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2006Collapse
Aug 12Feb 8Aug 7Aug 12, 2005 – Aug 7, 2006 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus opposition Sunslow
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
- North Node opposition Mercuryfast
- Jupiter sextile Midheavenfast
American Music Awards 2006
Personal year 3 · Pinnacle 4
No dated transit window covers this date in Beyoncé's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
49th Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 22 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Uranus opposition Sun
A power window with Uranus opposing the Sun in the eleventh house 151 days before the Grammys marked a radical shift in artistic identity ahead of the ceremony.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2007Collapse
Sep 13Feb 11Jul 12Sep 13, 2006 – Jul 12, 2007 · 302 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus opposition Sunslow
- Neptune trine Venusslow
- Saturn sextile Venusslow
- Pluto trine Ascendantslow
American Music Awards 2007
Personal year 22 · Pinnacle 4
No dated transit window covers this date in Beyoncé's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
JAY-Z and Beyoncé marry
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 4
6 passages in force · Chiron trine Venus · Uranus sextile Midheaven · Pluto square Mercury · Jupiter square Venus · North Node square Moon · Jupiter conjunction Midheaven
Beyoncé's chart on the wedding day, 2008Collapse
Jan 27Apr 4Jun 11Jan 27 – Jun 11, 2008 · 136 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron trine Venusslow
- Uranus sextile Midheavenslow
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Jupiter square Venusfast
- North Node square Moonfast
- Jupiter conjunction Midheavenfast
- 2010s13 EVENTS
52nd Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Saturn conjunction Mercury
Saturn conjunct Mercury in the sixth house arrived 23 days after the Grammy win, shifting attention to the disciplined work and professional obligations following the ceremony.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2010Collapse
Aug 4Jan 31Jul 30Aug 4, 2009 – Jul 30, 2010 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Saturn conjunction Mercuryslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
- North Node square Venusfast
- North Node conjunction Midheavenfast
Beyoncé's child Blue Ivy Carter is born
Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Neptune square Moon
Neptune squared Moon in house 11 58 days before the birth, bringing a foggy, emotionally surreal anticipation to her community and maternal hopes ahead of the arrival.
Beyoncé's chart on the day of a birth, 2012Collapse
Jul 11Jan 7Jul 5Jul 11, 2011 – Jul 5, 2012 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Ascendantslow
- Neptune sextile Ascendantslow
- Uranus opposition Mercuryslow
- Saturn opposition Ascendantslow
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- Neptune square Moonslow
- North Node square Sunfast
- Jupiter square Marsfast
- Jupiter conjunction Ascendantfast
55th Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Saturn sextile Sun
Saturn sextile Sun in the 7th house peaked 9 days after the ceremony, cementing enduring industry respect and structural authority following the Grammy honor.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2013Collapse
Dec 10Feb 10Apr 13Dec 10, 2012 – Apr 13, 2013 · 124 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Saturn sextile Sunslow
- Uranus opposition Mercuryslow
American Music Awards of 2014
Personal year 2 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Saturn conjunction Moon
Just two days after the ceremony, Saturn conjunct the natal Moon in the seventh house cemented a power window of serious public maturity and heavy emotional responsibility in partnerships.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2014Collapse
Aug 21Nov 23Feb 25Aug 21, 2014 – Feb 25, 2015 · 188 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Saturn conjunction Moonslow
- Chiron opposition Sunslow
- Jupiter sextile Venusfast
- North Node conjunction Venusfast
- North Node square Midheavenfast
57th Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 3 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Pluto trine Sun
Occurring 59 days before the ceremony, Pluto trine Sun in the ninth house set a high-stakes power window that framed this Grammy recognition with lasting creative authority.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2015Collapse
Nov 19Feb 8Apr 30Nov 19, 2014 – Apr 30, 2015 · 162 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn sextile Mercuryslow
- Pluto trine Sunslow
Beyoncé releases Lemonade
Visual album released with an HBO film.Source ↗
Personal year 22 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Jupiter conjunction Sun
The release of Lemonade coincided with an expansive and creatively significant moment for Beyoncé's artistic identity.
Beyoncé's chart on release day, 2016Collapse
Mar 2Apr 23Jun 14Mar 2 – Jun 14, 2016 · 104 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus opposition Venusslow
- Uranus square Midheavenslow
- Neptune opposition Sunslow
- Pluto conjunction Midheavenslow
- Jupiter conjunction Sunfast
2016 MTV Video Music Awards
Personal year 22 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Saturn square Sun
Saturn squared her eighth-house Sun 77 days before the VMAs, bringing rigorous pressure to her public identity and setting the stage for her hard-earned award recognition.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2016Collapse
Jun 12Aug 28Nov 13Jun 12 – Nov 13, 2016 · 154 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn square Sunslow
- Neptune opposition Sunslow
- North Node conjunction Sunfast
- Jupiter sextile Moonfast
American Music Awards of 2016
Personal year 22 · Pinnacle 5
3 passages in force · Uranus opposition Venus · Uranus square Midheaven · Chiron sextile Midheaven
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2016Collapse
Sep 18Nov 20Jan 22Sep 18, 2016 – Jan 22, 2017 · 126 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus opposition Venusslow
- Uranus square Midheavenslow
- Chiron sextile Midheavenslow
59th Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Jupiter conjunction Venus
Arriving 34 days after the Grammy win, Jupiter conjunct Venus in the sixth house expanded everyday work opportunities and professional harmony in the wake of the award.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2017Collapse
Oct 23Feb 12Jun 4Oct 23, 2016 – Jun 4, 2017 · 224 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus opposition Venusslow
- Pluto conjunction Midheavenslow
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Uranus square Midheavenslow
- Jupiter conjunction Venusfast
Beyoncé's child Sir Carter is born
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Uranus conjunction Ascendant
Arriving 51 days after Sir Carter's birth, Uranus conjunct her Ascendant in the 12th house marked a private awakening during a powerful window of personal transformation.
Beyoncé's chart on the day of a birth, 2017Collapse
Apr 19Jun 13Aug 7Apr 19 – Aug 7, 2017 · 110 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto conjunction Midheavenslow
- Chiron trine Moonslow
- Uranus conjunction Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Venusslow
- North Node square Moonfast
2018 MTV Video Music Awards
Personal year 6 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Pluto conjunction Midheaven
Pluto met the Midheaven in the tenth house 14 days after the ceremony, reflecting a massive transformation in public authority and career stature following the win.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2018Collapse
Feb 21Aug 20Feb 16Feb 21, 2018 – Feb 16, 2019 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Uranus square Marsslow
- Pluto conjunction Midheavenslow
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Chiron trine Marsslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Chiron opposition Mercuryslow
61st Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Neptune opposition Sun
A power window opened 77 days before the event as Neptune opposed the eleventh-house Sun, dissolving former aspirations to reshape collective acclaim at the ceremony.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2019Collapse
Aug 14Feb 10Aug 9Aug 14, 2018 – Aug 9, 2019 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Pluto conjunction Midheavenslow
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Uranus conjunction Ascendantslow
- Uranus square Marsslow
- Neptune opposition Sunslow
- North Node square Ascendantfast
- North Node trine Moonfast
- Jupiter sextile Venusfast
American Music Awards of 2019
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Saturn conjunction Midheaven
Sixteen days after the award, Saturn aligned with the Midheaven in the ninth house, marking a time of earned professional stature and long-term public authority.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2019Collapse
Sep 7Nov 24Feb 10Sep 7, 2019 – Feb 10, 2020 · 156 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Chiron trine Marsslow
- Chiron opposition Mercuryslow
- Saturn conjunction Midheavenslow
- Uranus square Marsslow
- Pluto conjunction Midheavenslow
- Jupiter trine Ascendantfast
- 2020s1 EVENTS
94th Academy Awards (Nominations Announced)
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Uranus trine Sun
Eighty-seven days before nominations, Uranus trined the first-house Sun in a potent power window that awakened individual distinction.
Beyoncé's chart on award day, 2022Collapse
Aug 12Feb 8Aug 7Aug 12, 2021 – Aug 7, 2022 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Moonslow
- Uranus trine Sunslow
- North Node opposition Moonfast
Human Design
generator · 2_4 · sacral
This chart doesn't include centre data, so the bodygraph and the centres list aren't shown.
Full Human Design readingCollapse
This chart doesn't include centre data, so the bodygraph and the centres list aren't shown.
Chart properties
Signature
When the strategy is working
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Not-self theme
When it isn't
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Incarnation crossThe Right Angle Cross of Consciousness
Centres and channels derive from the combined design (88° solar arc pre-birth) and personality (natal) gate set; lines come from planetary longitude.
Gene Keys
Hologenetic profile & activation sequence
Hologenetic profile & activation sequence
Full Gene Keys readingCollapse
Hologenetic Profile
Gene Keys derive from the same combined design (88 days pre-birth) and personality (natal) gate set as Human Design, read through the shadow → gift → siddhi spectrum rather than defined/undefined centres.
Vedic Nakshatras
Sidereal lunar mansions & dashas
Full Vedic readingCollapse
Ayanamsa: 23.6012 · Dasha system: Vimshottari · Ascendant nakshatra omitted: no trusted birth time
Mayan Tzolkin
Kin 183 · Yellow Seed · Magnetic
Kan · Magnetic tone
Full Mayan Tzolkin readingCollapse
Seal & tone
Oracle relations
Kin from birth date against the 260-day count, Dreamspell correlation · Seal = kin mod 20, tone = kin mod 13
Numerology
Life Path 5
Full Numerology readingCollapse
Core numbers
Chinese Zodiac
rooster · metal
Full Chinese Zodiac readingCollapse
| Pillar | Stem | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 辛 | 酉 |
| Month | 丙 | 申 |
| Day | 乙 | 巳 |
| Hour | 丁 | 亥 |
Day master
乙 anchors this Four Pillars reading: the Day pillar's Heavenly Stem, and the one value here that never depends on a recorded birth time.
Inner animals
Solar calendar; year boundary at the start of spring, not January 1.
Feng Shui
Kua 8
Favorable: Southwest, Northwest, West, Northeast
Full Feng Shui readingCollapse
Supportive directions
Directions to avoid
Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) method · Kua number from birth year and gender
The Sage
Ask the Sage about Beyoncé
The Sage reads every placement on this page in context. Ask what Beyoncé's chart means, or bring your own.
Begin your journeyQuestions about Beyoncé's birth chart
What is Beyoncé's zodiac sign?
Beyoncé's Sun sign is Virgo.
What is Beyoncé's moon and rising sign?
Beyoncé has a Scorpio Moon and a Aries rising.
When was Beyoncé born?
Beyoncé was born on Sep 4, 1981.
How reliable is this birth data?
This chart carries a Rodden rating of AA: the standard scale astrologers use to grade how well-documented a birth time is. Verified by a birth certificate or official record: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
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Sources
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Birth data
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