Jay-Z Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
Jay-Z is a Sagittarius, born December 4, 1969.
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Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Sagittarius
- Moon
- Moon in Libra
- Rising
- Pisces
- Chinese zodiac
- Rooster
- BaZi day master
- Water
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, United States
Western + Eastern: Sagittarius Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. Jay-Z's Sagittarius Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Rooster adds a year based cycle and Water names the BaZi day stem symbolism. These systems use different calendars and interpretive traditions, so this page places their keywords side by side as complementary cultural frameworks rather than treating them as interchangeable calculations.
Based on 12:00 default
BaZi day follows the 23:00 convention; someone born after 23:00 may have a different day element.
Interactive birth chart
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Air placements
Based on the 10 classic placements in this chart.
Tropical zodiac · Geocentric · True node · Placidus houses
About Jay-Z
Jay-Z is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur, born on December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, United States.
Jay-Z's Sun sign is Sagittarius, a Fire sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in Brooklyn because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Sagittarius | 12.38° | No |
| moon | Libra | 11.52° | No |
| mercury | Sagittarius | 22.52° | No |
| venus | Sagittarius | 0.12° | No |
| mars | Aquarius | 21.90° | No |
| jupiter | Libra | 27.91° | No |
| saturn | Taurus | 2.87° | Yes |
| uranus | Libra | 8.07° | No |
| neptune | Scorpio | 28.95° | No |
| pluto | Virgo | 27.21° | No |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Pisces
House 1: Pisces · House 2: Aries · House 3: Taurus · House 4: Gemini · House 5: Cancer · House 6: Cancer · House 7: Virgo · House 8: Libra · House 9: Scorpio · House 10: Sagittarius · House 11: Capricorn · House 12: Capricorn
Strongest aspects
Mercury + Mars sextile · 0.63° orb
Mercury (mind and communication) and Mars (drive and action) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Sun + Moon sextile · 0.86° orb
Sun (identity) and Moon (instinct and emotional needs) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Venus + Neptune conjunction · 1.17° orb
Venus (affection and values) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Neptune + Pluto sextile · 1.75° orb
Neptune (imagination and ideals) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Venus + Pluto sextile · 2.92° orb
Venus (affection and values) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Moon + Uranus conjunction · 3.46° orb
Moon (instinct and emotional needs) and Uranus (change and independence) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Elements, modalities & patterns
Elements: Fire 3 · Earth 2 · Air 4 · Water 1
Modalities: Cardinal 3 · Fixed 3 · Mutable 4
Detected patterns: Stellium in Sagittarius · Stellium in Libra
Sun and Moon relationship
The Sagittarius Sun and Libra Moon form a sextile by sign: their intentions and instincts can support one another. In traditional astrology, this describes a link between outward purpose and immediate emotional responses.
These are traditional symbols for reflection, not claims about Jay-Z's private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 9th house
Jay-Z's Sun in Sagittarius. They become more recognizably themselves by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
Jay-Z's Sun in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Moon in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 7th house
Jay-Z's Moon in Libra. Their emotional system settles by learning themselves through equal encounter with another; this makes reciprocity, beauty, fairness, and thoughtful comparison central to how they pursue emotional safety.
Jay-Z's Moon in House 7 touches partnership, agreements, attraction, and projection. It asks them to meet this quality in themselves and the other.
Mercury in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 10th house
Jay-Z's Mercury in Sagittarius. Their mind becomes clear by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
Jay-Z's Mercury in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Venus in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 9th house
Jay-Z's Venus in Sagittarius. Love and self worth deepen by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
Jay-Z's Venus in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Mars in Aquarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 12th house
Jay-Z's Mars in Aquarius. Their drive becomes clean by remaining loyal to an original mind under social pressure; this makes freedom, innovation, friendship, and a future facing vision central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
Jay-Z's Mars in House 12 touches solitude, dreams, unconscious patterns, and compassion. It asks them to reflect until this energy becomes conscious.
Jupiter in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 8th house
Jay-Z's Jupiter in Libra. Growth becomes meaningful by learning themselves through equal encounter with another; this makes reciprocity, beauty, fairness, and thoughtful comparison central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
Jay-Z's Jupiter in House 8 touches intimacy, shared resources, loss, trust, and taboo. It asks them to choose honest exchange over control.
Saturn in Taurus
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 2nd house · Retrograde
Jay-Z's Saturn in Taurus. Maturity develops by building slowly enough for trust to grow; this makes embodiment, enduring value, and patient commitment central to how they pursue earned security and authority.
Jay-Z's Saturn in House 2 touches resources, skill, money, and self worth. It asks them to build value that survives changing circumstances. Retrograde makes their Saturn's authority self-defined. The rules they actually live by are the ones they tested themselves, not the ones they were handed. Mastery here comes from the inside out.
Uranus in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 7th house
Jay-Z's Uranus in Libra. Freedom becomes real by learning themselves through equal encounter with another; this makes reciprocity, beauty, fairness, and thoughtful comparison central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
Jay-Z's Uranus in House 7 touches partnership, agreements, attraction, and projection. It asks them to meet this quality in themselves and the other.
Neptune in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 9th house
Jay-Z's Neptune in Scorpio. Their sensitivity becomes creative by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue a lived connection to imagination and compassion.
Jay-Z's Neptune in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Pluto in Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 7th house
Jay-Z's Pluto in Virgo. Transformation begins by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue truth beneath fear, attachment, and power.
Jay-Z's Pluto in House 7 touches partnership, agreements, attraction, and projection. It asks them to meet this quality in themselves and the other.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Jay-Z's rising sign?
Jay-Z's Rising sign is Pisces, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is Jay-Z's birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is Jay-Z a Sagittarius?
Yes. Jay-Z's Sun sign is Sagittarius in the chart shown here.
How we calculate. Planet signs use the Timing natal chart engine (Swiss Ephemeris based). When an exact birth time is not public, the chart is calculated for 12:00 local time on the birth date, including Rising, houses, and angles; these placements can differ at another time. Publicly sourced birth times are marked reported, unverified.
Updated September 2026
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