The life of The Notorious B.I.G.
Who was The Notorious B.I.G.?
The Notorious B.I.G. released Ready to Die in September 1994 and remade East Coast hip-hop around a slower, denser style of storytelling. He recorded only two albums; Life After Death appeared two weeks after his death. He was shot and killed in Los Angeles in March 1997, six months after Tupac Shakur, and neither case has been solved. He gave his own birth time in a lyric, which is why his chart can be cast at all.
Defining moments
The Notorious B.I.G.'s child T'yanna Wallace is born
Saturn squared his twelfth-house Sun 67 days before the birth, marking a heavy window of impending parental duty and sober maturity.
The Birth in the timeline ↓The Notorious B.I.G. and Faith Evans marry
Saturn crossing his Ascendant in the 12th house 42 days before the wedding signaled a heavy power window, demanding personal maturity as he prepared for marital commitment.
The Marriage in the timeline ↓The Notorious B.I.G. dies
Forty-five days before his death, North Node trining his seventh-house Sun marked a fated power window that cast his final partnerships into the spotlight.
The Death in the timeline ↓The Notorious B I G and Charli Baltimore begin a relationship
The Partnership in the timeline ↓The Notorious B.I.G.: murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
Forty-five days before his death, this power window transit emphasized fated partnerships and public visibility under his seventh house Sun.
The Career Milestone in the timeline ↓The Notorious B.I.G.'s birth chart
This is how a birth chart reads: the wheel plots The Notorious B.I.G.'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 May 21, 1972 · 2:19 AM EDT · Brooklyn, New York · Birth data: A · See sources
3 placements that explain this chart
With his Gemini Sun in the third house trine an analytical Virgo Moon, Biggie Smalls translated street realism into intricate narratives. His dense rhyme schemes and out-of-bounds personal planets matched a fast, magnetic public life.
The core drive: quick, curious, and fluent in more than one version of itself.
The emotional undercurrent: exacting, useful, and quietly proud of the details no one else notices.
The first impression: imaginative, absorbent, and fluent in things that can't be said outright.
How The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart holds together
Twelve systems read the same birth chart twelve different ways. Match your chart to see how yours lines up with The Notorious B.I.G.'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
Earth-led and mutable by a slight margin.
Elements × modalities
| Cardinal | Fixed | Mutable | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🜂 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 🜃 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 🜁 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 🜄 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
Elements
Modalities
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
Moon conjunct an angle: right at the chart's most visible points
See celebrities with this pattern →Venus out-of-bounds: operating outside its usual rules
See celebrities with this pattern →Frequencies are measured against the profile corpus, not asserted.
Twelve systems read The Notorious B.I.G.'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
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Exact planetary positions
● Sun, Moon or chart ruler · ℞ retrograde
| Body | Position | House | Motion | Theme | Sabian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chiron | ♈︎ Aries 15°54' | 1 | - | — | — |
| Mercury | ♉︎ Taurus 14°06' | 2 | - | — | — |
| Sun | ♊︎ Gemini 0°18' | 3 | - | — | — |
| Saturn | ♊︎ Gemini 8°39' | 3 | - | — | — |
| Venus | ♋︎ Cancer 4°05' | 4 | - | — | — |
| Mars | ♋︎ Cancer 5°35' | 4 | - | — | — |
| Moon | ♍︎ Virgo 14°10' | 7 | - | — | — |
| Pluto | ♍︎ Virgo 29°24' | 7 | ℞ | — | — |
| Uranus | ♎︎ Libra 14°37' | 7 | ℞ | — | — |
| Lilith | ♏︎ Scorpio 9°45' | 8 | - | — | — |
| Neptune | ♐︎ Sagittarius 3°59' | 9 | ℞ | — | — |
| Jupiter | ♑︎ Capricorn 7°16' | 10 | ℞ | — | — |
| North node | ♑︎ Capricorn 27°55' | 11 | ℞ | — | — |
| South node | ♋︎ Cancer 27°55' | — | - | — | — |
| House | Cusp sign | Degree | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 1 | ♓︎ Pisces | 12°29' | ⚷ |
| House 2 | ♈︎ Aries | 28°04' | ☿︎ |
| House 3 | ♉︎ Taurus | 28°02' | ☉︎♄︎ |
| House 4 | ♊︎ Gemini | 20°37' | ♀︎♂︎ |
| House 5 | ♋︎ Cancer | 11°40' | - |
| House 6 | ♌︎ Leo | 6°07' | - |
| House 7 | ♍︎ Virgo | 12°29' | ☽︎♇︎♅︎ |
| House 8 | ♎︎ Libra | 28°04' | ⚸ |
| House 9 | ♏︎ Scorpio | 28°02' | ♆︎ |
| House 10 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 20°37' | ♃︎ |
| House 11 | ♑︎ Capricorn | 11°40' | ☊ |
| House 12 | ♒︎ Aquarius | 6°07' | - |
Full aspects · 29
Chart patterns
House system: placidus · Birth time: sourced, Rodden A · Angles trusted
Transits
Lifetime cosmic weather & power windows
The Notorious B.I.G.'s child T'yanna Wallace is born
Personal year 3 · Pinnacle 8
Editorial note · Saturn square Sun
Saturn squared his twelfth-house Sun 67 days before the birth, marking a heavy window of impending parental duty and sober maturity.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart on the day of a birth, 1993Collapse
May 3Aug 10Nov 17May 3 – Nov 17, 1993 · 198 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn square Sunslow
- North Node square Ascendantfast
The Notorious B.I.G. and Faith Evans marry
Personal year 4 · Pinnacle 8
Editorial note · Saturn conjunction Ascendant
Saturn crossing his Ascendant in the 12th house 42 days before the wedding signaled a heavy power window, demanding personal maturity as he prepared for marital commitment.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart on the wedding day, 1994Collapse
Jun 9Aug 4Sep 29Jun 9 – Sep 29, 1994 · 112 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron opposition Ascendantslow
- Saturn conjunction Ascendantslow
- Jupiter trine Marsfast
Ready to Die released
His debut album, which reoriented East Coast hip-hop and made him its central figure.Source ↗
Personal year 4 · Pinnacle 8
Editorial note · Jupiter sextile Moon
Jupiter’s harmonious angle to the eighth-house Moon aligned expansive fortune and emotional resonance with an album exploring dark themes of survival and mortality.
No dated window is recorded for this transit, so it isn't among the passages drawn here.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart on release day, 1994Collapse
Jun 8Sep 13Dec 19Jun 8 – Dec 19, 1994 · 194 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron conjunction Moonslow
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
- Jupiter opposition Mercuryfast
- North Node opposition Mercuryfast
- Jupiter trine Ascendantfast
The Notorious B I G and Charli Baltimore begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q179157, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 8
No dated transit window covers this date in The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s child C.J. Wallace is born
Personal year 6 · Pinnacle 8
Editorial note · Jupiter trine Moon
Arriving 11 days after the birth, Jupiter trine Moon brought an expansive, protective glow to his hopes for fatherhood.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart on the day of a birth, 1996Collapse
Sep 22Oct 29Dec 5Sep 22 – Dec 5, 1996 · 74 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn square Venusslow
- Chiron sextile Midheavenslow
- Saturn sextile Sunslow
- Uranus trine Sunslow
- North Node square Marsfast
- Jupiter sextile Ascendantfast
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
- Jupiter trine Moonfast
The Notorious B.I.G. dies
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 8
Editorial note · North Node trine Sun
Forty-five days before his death, North Node trining his seventh-house Sun marked a fated power window that cast his final partnerships into the spotlight.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart on the day of death, 1997Collapse
Jan 23Mar 9Apr 23Jan 23 – Apr 23, 1997 · 90 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn square Marsslow
- North Node trine Sunfast
The Notorious B.I.G.: murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 8
Editorial note · North Node trine Sun
Forty-five days before his death, this power window transit emphasized fated partnerships and public visibility under his seventh house Sun.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart on a career milestone, 1997Collapse
Jan 23Mar 9Apr 23Jan 23 – Apr 23, 1997 · 90 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn square Marsslow
- North Node trine Sunfast
Life After Death released
Released sixteen days after his murder; it went on to be certified diamond.Source ↗
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 8
1 passage in force · North Node trine Sun
The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart on release day, 1997Collapse
Jan 23Mar 25May 25Jan 23 – May 25, 1997 · 122 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- North Node trine Sunfast
Human Design
manifesting_generator · 1_3 · sacral
This chart doesn't include centre data, so the bodygraph and the centres list aren't shown.
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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 The Sleeping Phoenix
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
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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
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Ayanamsa: 23.4714 · Dasha system: Vimshottari · Ascendant nakshatra omitted: no trusted birth time
Mayan Tzolkin
Kin 172 · Red Skywalker · Electric
Ben · Electric tone
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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 9
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Core numbers
Chinese Zodiac
rat · water
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| Pillar | Stem | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 壬 | 子 |
| Month | 乙 | 巳 |
| Day | 壬 | 申 |
| Hour | 辛 | 丑 |
Day master
壬 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 1
Favorable: Southeast, East, South, North
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Supportive directions
Directions to avoid
Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) method · Kua number from birth year and gender
The Sage
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The Sage reads every placement on this page in context. Ask what The Notorious B.I.G.'s chart means, or bring your own.
Begin your journeyQuestions about The Notorious B.I.G.'s birth chart
What is The Notorious B.I.G.'s zodiac sign?
The Notorious B.I.G.'s Sun sign is Gemini.
What is The Notorious B.I.G.'s moon and rising sign?
The Notorious B.I.G. has a Virgo Moon and a Pisces rising.
When was The Notorious B.I.G. born?
The Notorious B.I.G. was born on May 21, 1972.
How reliable is this birth data?
This chart carries a Rodden rating of A: the standard scale astrologers use to grade how well-documented a birth time is. Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
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