IU birth chart

May 16, 1993
Seoul, South Korea
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunTaurus

☽︎MoonPisces

Main elementEarth 42%

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Sun and Mercury on one degree, thirty-one number-one singles

Thirty-one number-one singles is the figure the record gives IU, the most in South Korea.

Both oppose Pluto in Scorpio, a reading of high stakes.

Venus in Aries and Mars in Leo are two fire placements that sound nothing like Taurus patience, though Good Day spending five consecutive weeks at the top of the Gaon Digital Chart is a patient kind of loud.

Astrologers read Sun in Taurus and Mercury in Taurus on the same degree as identity and voice fused, a neat match for a singer-songwriter who took more creative control as lyricist and producer.

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Sun in Taurus

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Mercury in Taurus

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Pluto in Scorpio

Who shares this sky

IU shares this sky. Inanna Sarkis was born 1 day earlier, so the sky is nearly the same, and the split is on the map: Seoul here, Hamilton there.

Mercury glued to the Sun. Within 1° of it at noon, something 1 chart in 250 here can claim.
Mercury in Taurus with Jupiter in Libra. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 197 here, Inanna Sarkis and Morgan Wallen among them.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Taurus Sun reads as steady and patient, a Pisces Moon as intuitive and dreamy: signs that cooperate without much effort, the same pair BamBam carries. Elements run earth 42%, water 30%, fire 19%, air 9%, fixed first at 53%, the nearest mix to Inanna Sarkis.

Planets

Gold lines: Sun conjunct Mercury (0.0°), Venus trine Mars (3.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♉︎ Taurus 25°won't be rushednearest chart: Pierce Brosnan 25°
☽︎Moon · emotions♓︎ Piscessoaks up other people's moods, degree depends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♉︎ Taurus 25°decides slowly and won't budgenearest chart: Johnny Depp 25°
♀︎Venus · taste♈︎ Aries 12°likes the chasenearest chart: Millie Bobby Brown 12°
♂︎Mars · drive♌︎ Leo 9°fights in publicnearest chart: Daniel Ricciardo 9°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♎︎ Libra 5° ^℞grows through partnersnearest chart: Inanna Sarkis 5°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♒︎ Aquarius 29°learns to belongnearest chart: Inanna Sarkis 29°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♑︎Uranus in Capricorn18% of charts here

♆︎ ♑︎Neptune in Capricorn30% of charts here

♇︎ ♏︎Pluto in Scorpio21% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Sun conjunct Mercury (0.0°). The ego and the mind act as one: the tightest one in NEBO's base at noon.
Sun opposite Pluto (1.2°). The ego and the need for control pull from opposite ends, as tight as Alice Cooper’s.

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Which fandom characters would IU be?

Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Fleur Delacour
Marvel: Black Widow
Star Wars: Hera Syndulla
Honkai: Star Rail: Firefly
Pirates of the Caribbean: Elizabeth Swann
Black Clover: Noelle Silva
The Lord of the Rings: Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

Famous people whose charts click with IU

Hwasa leads at 90%, Aaliyah closes the list at 89%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Inanna Sarkis, born 1 day earlier: every planet from Sun to Saturn lands in the same sign.
Mikhail Bakunin, 179 years earlier, repeats the Venus and Saturn signs, average gap 22°.
Haerin is the nearest in K-pop (2006): same Sun, Mercury and Venus, split on Mars and Jupiter.

Born on May 16

May 16 also belongs to Megan Fox (1986, film), Pierce Brosnan (1953, film) and Artur Babich (2000, creator). Seoul is also the birthplace of Park Bo-gum and Haerin. May 16, 1993 was a Sunday, and the Moon was a waning crescent.

Among K-pop idols

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Pisces is the rarest among K-pop idols (3%), closest to Liz (IVE) and Wonyoung. Taurus ranks 4th of 12 Suns here, with Haerin and Baekhyun nearest on the same Sun.