Frank Zappa

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Musician · Sagittarius Sun

Frank Zappa birth chart

  • December 21, 1940
  • Baltimore, United States
  • Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses
☉︎SunSagittarius
☽︎MoonVirgoorLibra
Main elementFire 68%

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Only in this chart

Frank Zappa is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Mercury in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Taurus and Saturn in Taurus at once. Joan Baez comes closest: same Jupiter and Saturn, but Mercury in Capricorn.

  • Sun on a sign change. The Sun moved from Sagittarius to Capricorn on this date, and the birth hour is unknown, so the Sagittarius label here is the noon reading.
  • Four planets retrograde: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee have the same set, 1 chart in 306 here.
  • Mercury in Sagittarius with Saturn in Taurus. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 275 here, Max Born and Alix Earle among them.

What the chart says

In astrology, this date sits on the line between two Suns, and without a birth hour the Virgo or Libra Moon stays open too. By the book, Mercury in Sagittarius + Venus in Sagittarius + Saturn in Taurus reads as someone who blurts the big picture, needs room to roam and learns what's enough. Elements run fire 68%, earth 19%, water 13%, air 0%, mutable first at 68%, the nearest mix to Thomas Jefferson.

Planets

Gold line: Jupiter conjunct Saturn (3.0°).

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♅︎ ♉︎Uranus in Taurus5% of charts here
♆︎ ♍︎Neptune in Virgo6% of charts here
♇︎ ♌︎Pluto in Leo8% of charts here

Tightest aspects

  • Jupiter square Pluto (1.9°). Appetite for more keeps colliding with the need for control, as tight as Hasan Piker’s.
  • Sun square Neptune (2.0°). The ego keeps colliding with the dreamer side, as tight as Lee Know’s.
  • Mars opposite Uranus (2.3°). Drive and the rule-breaking streak pull from opposite ends, as tight as Rembrandt’s.
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Famous people whose charts click with Frank Zappa

Billie Eilish leads at 91%, Emma D'Arcy closes the list at 88%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

  • Hayao Miyazaki, born 15 days later: Venus, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Mercury splits, Sagittarius here against Capricorn.
  • Leonid Brezhnev, 33 years earlier, repeats the Mercury, Venus and Mars signs, average gap 24°.
  • Joan Baez is the nearest in music (1941): same Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, split on Mercury and Mars.

Born on December 21

December 21 also belongs to Emmanuel Macron (1977, politics), Cooper Flagg (2006, sport) and Florence Griffith Joyner (1959, sport). Baltimore is also the birthplace of Brandon Hardesty and Michael Phelps. December 21, 1940 was a Saturday, and the Moon went from waning gibbous to last quarter.

Among musicians

Of this chart's placements, Jupiter in Taurus is the rarest among musicians (6%), closest to Joan Baez and Kristian Kostov.

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Sagittarius compatibility

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