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The Weeknd.

16 February 1990 · 14:45 · Toronto, Canada

The Weeknd's birth chart: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Scorpio, Cancer rising. Born February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Canada.

About this chart

What is The Weeknd's sun sign?

The Weeknd's sun is in Aquarius.

What is The Weeknd's moon sign?

The Weeknd's moon is in Scorpio.

What is The Weeknd's rising sign?

The Weeknd's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was The Weeknd born?

The Weeknd was born February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Canada.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of air and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAquarius · 8th house

The self is found in the original angle. Independent, future-facing, often standing just outside the gravity of the room, and the contribution is the difference itself. Lesson: belong without being swallowed. The self is forged in the depths. Encounters with intimacy, power, loss and the hidden remake you, and the descent and return becomes the pattern of a lifetime.

MoonScorpio · 5th house

Feeling runs intense, private and all the way down. Strong instincts, fierce loyalty, slow to trust. The shadow is the iron grip on what cannot be controlled. Soothing needs absolute privacy and the right person. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Scorpio in the 5th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeAquarius · 8th house

The pull is toward Aquarius: contribution to something larger, objectivity, the good of the group. The familiar groove is Leo: needing to be the centre, applause as proof. Growth is worth measured by what you give, not how you are seen.

South NodeLeo · 2nd house

The South Node in Leo (2nd house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Gemini; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Moon · chart rulerScorpio · 5th house

Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

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MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in earth and cardinal signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusCapricorn · 6th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Capricorn

A generation that breaks down institutions and rebuilds them.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneCapricorn · 6th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Capricorn

An era that dreams of universal structure, the spiritualising of authority, the dissolving of institutions.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoScorpio · 5th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Scorpio

Pluto is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundCancer · 12th house

The wound is nurture and belonging: a mother-or-family wound that left you feeling unsafe, unheld, without a true home. You may mother everyone else while starving the child inside you. It plays out most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 5th house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to think differently and free the future from stale rules.
  4. You need depth, loyalty, and emotional truth without theater.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a water, cardinal chart led by Mars. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

Missing: Little or no fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

What leads the chart

Mars is the loudest force in your chart, which means drive, desire, and assertion lead. You are martial, defined by energy and the will to pursue, a person of action who moves on want rather than waiting.

The spine, your Big Three

Aquarius Sun · Scorpio Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of air and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
8%
Earth
28%
Air
26%
Water
38%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Capricorncommon
three or more planets clustered in Capricorn: Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Venus gather in Capricorn. A stellium in Capricorn concentrates the chart on ambition, structure, and long-game authority. You build and carry responsibility at high volume: reputation, work, and the climb are not side plots, they are the spine.

gift

Tremendous focus through Capricorn: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Capricorn energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Capricorn stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Capricorn is also a discharge valve.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Moon conjunction Plutoorb 0.36°

In you, the Moon is fused with Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your relationship to power and deep change. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mars conjunction Neptuneorb 0.45°

In you, Mars is fused with Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus conjunction Saturnorb 1.36°

In you, Venus is fused with Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Sun trine Jupiterorb 3.04°

In you, the Sun flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 3.14°

In you, Saturn works easily with Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Saturn rules Capricornat home

Saturn sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Chiron trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

A natural, flowing ease: Chiron and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mars exalted in Capricornlifted

Mars is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Jupiter exalted in Cancerlifted

Jupiter is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Mars sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 1.6°

An easy, available link: Mars and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Neptune sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 2.0°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Moon in fall in Scorpiostrained

Moon works against the grain in Scorpio. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Mars square Part of Fortuneorb 0.2°

A productive friction: the pull between Mars and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Neptune square Part of Fortuneorb 0.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Neptune and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Moon square North Nodeorb 1.0°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Pluto square North Nodeorb 1.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Pluto and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun in detriment in Aquariusuphill

Sun runs uphill in Aquarius, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

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Chart data for The Weeknd
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun27°52' Aquarius8th housedetriment
Moon17°25' Scorpio5th housefall, chart ruler
Mercury6°39' Aquarius7th house·
Venus22°17' Capricorn6th house·
Mars13°12' Capricorn6th houseexaltation
Jupiter0°54' Cancer12th houseretrograde, exaltation
Saturn20°55' Capricorn6th houserulership
Uranus8°17' Capricorn6th house·
Neptune13°39' Capricorn6th house·
Pluto17°47' Scorpio5th house·
Chiron11°05' Cancer12th houseretrograde
North Node16°23' Aquarius8th houseretrograde
South Node16°23' Leo2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith11°39' Scorpio5th house·
Part of Fortune13°03' Aries10th house·
Vertex10°02' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marssquarepart-of-fortune0.16°separating
moonconjunctionpluto0.36°separating
marsconjunctionneptune0.45°applying
chirontrinelilith0.57°separating
neptunesquarepart-of-fortune0.61°separating
moonsquarenorth-node1.03°separating
venusconjunctionsaturn1.36°separating
plutosquarenorth-node1.39°separating
marssextilelilith1.56°separating
chironsquarepart-of-fortune1.97°separating
neptunesextilelilith2.01°applying
marsoppositionchiron2.13°separating
neptuneoppositionchiron2.58°separating
uranusoppositionchiron2.80°applying
part-of-fortunetrinevertex3.01°separating
suntrinejupiter3.04°applying
saturnsextilepluto3.14°separating
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune3.34°applying
uranussextilelilith3.36°separating
mercurysextilevertex3.38°applying
moonsextilesaturn3.50°applying
moonsextileneptune3.77°separating
moonsextilemars4.22°separating
north-nodesquarelilith4.74°applying
uranussquarepart-of-fortune4.76°applying
moonsextilevenus4.86°applying
marsconjunctionuranus4.93°separating
mercurysquarelilith4.99°applying
uranusconjunctionneptune5.37°applying
moonconjunctionlilith5.78°separating
moontrinechiron6.34°separating
sunsemisquarepart-of-fortune0.17°applying
mercurybiquintilejupiter0.25°applying
sunsemisquaremars0.34°applying
jupitersesquiquadratenorth-node0.48°separating
chironbiquintilenorth-node0.69°applying
sunsemisquareneptune0.79°applying
chironquincunxvertex1.04°applying
plutobiquintilepart-of-fortune1.27°applying
venusquintilelilith1.37°applying
lilithquincunxpart-of-fortune1.40°applying
moonsesquiquadratejupiter1.52°separating
lilithsemisextilevertex1.61°separating
mercurysemisextileuranus1.63°applying
uranussemisextilevertex1.75°applying
sunsesquiquadratechiron1.79°separating
jupitersesquiquadratepluto1.87°separating