Michael Jackson

Photo: Matthew Rolston; Distributed by Epic Records · Public domain

Musician · Virgo Sun

Michael Jackson birth chart

  • August 29, 1958
  • Gary, Indiana, USA
☉︎SunVirgo
☽︎MoonPisces
Main elementWater 38%

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Bad, five number-ones, and a Moon in Pisces

Michael Jackson

Bad, released in 1987, was the first album to produce five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

Michael Jackson was also the only artist with a US top-ten single in six decades.

Mars in Taurus and Jupiter in Libra supply the muscle, on paper: a slow, steady push and a sense of how an audience will respond.

Astrologers read Moon in Pisces as a soft, absorbing placement, and with the birth hour on record it is fixed here, which makes it an odd fit for that much commercial muscle.

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Moon in Pisces
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Mars in Taurus
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Jupiter in Libra

Only in this chart

Michael Jackson is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Moon in Pisces, Mercury in Leo and Jupiter in Libra at once. Alok comes closest: same Moon and Mercury, but Jupiter in Leo.

  • Sun in Virgo with Mars in Taurus. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 459 here, DjMaRiiO and Jakub Menšík among them.
  • Birth hour on record. 1 chart in 145 here has one, and it pins the Moon to a degree instead of a whole-day range.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Virgo Sun reads as precise and self-critical, a Pisces Moon as intuitive and dreamy: opposite signs, the full-Moon setup where public and private pull apart, the same pair Mahmood carries. Elements run water 38%, earth 31%, fire 27%, air 4%, mutable first at 71%, the nearest mix to Benjamin Harrison.

Planets

Gold line: Venus trine Saturn (2.0°). Red dash: Mercury square Mars (3.0°).

Generational · shared by a whole age group
♅︎ ♌︎Uranus in Leo4% of charts here
♆︎ ♏︎Neptune in Scorpio8% of charts here
♇︎ ♍︎Pluto in Virgo7% of charts here

Tightest aspects

  • Venus trine Saturn (2.1°). Taste and self-control run downhill together, as tight as Arthur Rimbaud’s.
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Famous people whose charts click with Michael Jackson

Olivia Cooke leads at 90%, Zoe Saldaña closes the list at 88%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

  • Madonna, born 13 days earlier: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Sun splits, Virgo here against Leo.
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 178 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn signs, average gap 24°.
  • Kate Bush is the nearest in music (1958): same Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, split on Sun and Mercury.

Born on August 29

August 29 also belongs to Bizarrap (1998, music), Charlie Parker (1920, music) and Destiny Chukunyere (2002, music). August 29, 1958 was a Friday, and the Moon was almost full.

Among musicians

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Pisces is the rarest among musicians (6%), closest to Rita Ora and Sam Cooke. Virgo ranks 2nd of 12 Suns here (11%, against 9% across the base), with Leslie Cheung and Kim Petras nearest on the same Sun.

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Virgo compatibility

By NEBO’s love chemistry, a Virgo Sun clicks most with Leo, Scorpio and Libra. Virgo with every sign →

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