Marvin Gaye

Photo: Photograph by Jim Britt, whose other (copyrighted) photos of Gaye from the same · Public domain

Musician · Aries Sun

Marvin Gaye birth chart

  • April 2, 1939
  • Washington, D.C., United States
  • Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses
☉︎SunAries
☽︎MoonVirgo
Main elementFire 42%

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Only in this chart

Marvin Gaye is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Moon in Virgo, Mercury in Aries and Mars in Capricorn at once. Zach Bryan comes closest: same Moon and Mercury, but Mars in Aries.

  • Mercury in Aries with Mars in Capricorn. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 229 here, Francis Ford Coppola and Wilhelm Röntgen among them.
  • Three planets retrograde: Mercury, Neptune and Pluto. Fats Domino and Mohammed Rafi have the same set, 1 chart in 120 here.
  • Mars and Saturn swap signs. Mars in Capricorn and Saturn in Aries each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Béla Bartók's chart, 1 chart in 46 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, an Aries Sun reads as bold and first to act, a Virgo Moon as precise and self-critical: a 150° gap astrologers call awkward, two parts that need translating, the same pair Zach Bryan carries. By the book, Mercury in Aries + Mars in Capricorn + Jupiter in Pisces reads as someone who thinks out loud and fast, climbs without drama and grows by trusting. Elements run fire 42%, earth 42%, water 16%, air 0%, cardinal first at 53%, the nearest mix to Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Planets

Gold lines: Sun conjunct Mercury (1.0°), Venus sextile Mars (4.0°).

Generational · shared by a whole age group
♅︎ ♉︎Uranus in Taurus5% of charts here
♆︎ ♍︎Neptune in Virgo6% of charts here
♇︎ ♋︎Pluto in Cancer9% of charts here

Tightest aspects

  • Jupiter opposite Neptune (0.1°). Appetite for more and the dreamer side pull from opposite ends, and only Kanye West, Louis Partridge and T. S. Eliot have it tighter at noon.
  • Sun conjunct Mercury (1.1°). The ego and the mind act as one, as tight as Ronaldo’s.
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Famous people whose charts click with Marvin Gaye

Andrew Tate leads at 90%, Raye closes the list at 87%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

  • Francis Ford Coppola, born 5 days later: every planet from Sun to Saturn lands in the same sign.
  • Wilhelm Röntgen, 94 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars signs, average gap 22°.
  • Billie Holiday is the nearest in music (1915): same Sun, Venus and Jupiter, split on Mercury and Mars.

Born on April 2

April 2 also belongs to Zach Bryan (1996, music), Quavo (1991, rap) and Ninho (1996, rap). Washington is also the birthplace of Isabelle Fuhrman and Al Gore. April 2, 1939 was a Sunday, and the Moon was waxing gibbous.

Among musicians

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Virgo is the rarest among musicians (5%), closest to Bill Kaulitz and Mohammed Assaf. Aries ranks 5th of 12 Suns here, with Billie Holiday and Angelina Mango nearest on the same Sun.

Other famous Aries

Aries compatibility

By NEBO’s love chemistry, an Aries Sun clicks most with Aries, Pisces and Taurus. Aries with every sign →

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