Rapper · Capricorn Sun

LL Cool J birth chart

January 14, 1968
Queens, United States
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunCapricorn

☽︎MoonCancer

Main elementWater 40%

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Capricorn staying power from Def Jam in 1984 to The FORCE

Capricorn is the long-haul sign in astrology, and LL Cool J's record runs a long way: signed to Def Jam in 1984, a debut album, Radio, in 1985, and a fourteenth album, The FORCE, in 2024.

Sun in Capricorn trine Pluto in Virgo reads on paper as staying power with control behind it.

Acting sits alongside the music: Sam Hanna on NCIS: Los Angeles from 2009 to 2023, and host of Lip Sync Battle.

Mercury in Aquarius, read as the odd-angle thinker, fits a name the record puts among the earliest rappers to realize crossover commercial success.

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Sun in Capricorn

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Pluto in Virgo

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Mercury in Aquarius

Only in this chart

LL Cool J is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Sun in Capricorn, Mars in Pisces and Jupiter in Virgo at once. Rakim comes closest: same Mars and Jupiter, but Sun in Aquarius.

Venus in Sagittarius with Jupiter in Virgo. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 197 here, Mac Miller and DJ BoBo among them.
Eight different signs. Hardly any doubling up, a spread only 1% of charts here reach.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Capricorn Sun reads as ambitious and long-term, a Cancer Moon as protective and loyal: opposite signs, the full-Moon setup where public and private pull apart, the same pair Jimmy Page carries. Elements run water 40%, earth 37%, fire 14%, air 9%, cardinal first at 60%, the nearest mix to Audrey Hepburn.

Planets

Gold line: Mercury sextile Saturn (2.0°). Red dash: Mars opposite Jupiter (0.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♑︎ Capricorn 23°plays the long gamenearest chart: Luis Díaz 23°
☽︎Moon · emotions♋︎ Cancerremembers every mood, degree depends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♒︎ Aquarius 4°thinks ten years aheadnearest chart: nicolapeltz 4°
♀︎Venus · taste♐︎ Sagittarius 15°needs room to roamnearest chart: Sam Cooke 15°
♂︎Mars · drive♓︎ Pisces 4°fights sidewaysnearest chart: Christina Grimmie 4°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♍︎ Virgo 4° ^℞grows by getting goodnearest chart: Thibaut Courtois 4°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♈︎ Aries 6°learns patience the hard waynearest chart: Rodri 6°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♍︎Uranus in Virgo5% of charts here

♆︎ ♏︎Neptune in Scorpio8% of charts here

♇︎ ♍︎Pluto in Virgo7% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Mars opposite Jupiter (0.8°). Drive and appetite for more pull from opposite ends, as tight as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s.
Sun trine Pluto (0.8°). The ego and the need for control run downhill together, as tight as Aretha Franklin’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Dobby
Marvel: Groot
Star Wars: Mace Windu
League of Legends: Jayce
Dragon Ball: Vegeta
Superman: Jor-El
The Chronicles of Narnia: Mr Tumnus

Famous people whose charts click with LL Cool J

Raye leads at 88%, Riz Ahmed closes the list at 85%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

DJ BoBo, born 9 days earlier: Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Mercury splits, Aquarius here against Capricorn.
Maria Prymachenko, 59 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn signs, average gap 26°.
Rakim is the nearest in rap (1968): same Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, split on Sun and Venus.

Born on January 14

January 14 also belongs to Jul (1990, rap), Jason Bateman (1969, film) and Declan Rice (1999, sport). Queens is also the birthplace of Martin Scorsese and Metta Sandiford-Artest. January 14, 1968 was a Sunday, and the Moon went from waxing gibbous to almost full.

Among rappers

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Cancer is the rarest among rappers (4%), closest to Drake and Yasiin Bey. Capricorn ranks 11th of 12 Suns here (5%, against 8% across the base), with Zack de la Rocha and Mac Miller nearest on the same Sun.