Miriam Makeba

Photo: Reprise Records · Public domain

Musician · Pisces Sun

Miriam Makeba birth chart

  • March 4, 1932
  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses
☉︎SunPisces
☽︎MoonAquarius
Main elementWater 49%

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It takes four placements to single out Miriam Makeba: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Aquarius, Mercury in Pisces and Mars in Pisces. Johnny Cash comes closest: same Sun, Mercury and Mars, but Moon in Scorpio.

  • Venus in Aries with Jupiter in Leo. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 197 here, Johnny Cash and Kenshi Yonezu among them.
  • Sun and Jupiter swap signs. Sun in Pisces and Jupiter in Leo each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Johnny Cash's chart, 1 chart in 92 here.
  • Three planets retrograde: Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. Johnny Cash and George Harrison have the same set, 1 chart in 63 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Pisces Sun reads as intuitive and dreamy, an Aquarius Moon as original and independent: neighboring signs with little in common, which astrologers read as a low itch, the same pair Enrico Caruso carries. By the book, Mars in Pisces + Mercury in Pisces + Jupiter in Leo reads as someone who fights sideways, thinks in pictures and grows by taking the stage. Elements run water 49%, air 33%, fire 16%, earth 2%, mutable first at 49%, the nearest mix to Marie Antoinette.

Planets

Gold lines: Sun conjunct Mercury (6.0°), Sun conjunct Mars (7.0°).

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♅︎ ♈︎Uranus in Aries4% of charts here
♆︎ ♍︎Neptune in Virgo6% of charts here
♇︎ ♋︎Pluto in Cancer9% of charts here

Tightest aspects

  • Mars opposite Neptune (0.1°). Drive and the dreamer side pull from opposite ends, and only Grover Cleveland and Rivers have it tighter at noon.
  • Mercury trine Pluto (0.6°). The mind and the need for control run downhill together, as tight as Günter Grass’.
  • Jupiter trine Uranus (2.9°). Appetite for more and the rule-breaking streak run downhill together, as tight as Benny Cristo’s.
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Famous people whose charts click with Miriam Makeba

Aryna Sabalenka leads at 87%, LeBron James closes the list at 83%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

  • Elizabeth Taylor, born 6 days earlier: every planet from Sun to Saturn lands in the same sign.
  • Bryan Cranston, 24 years later, repeats the Sun and Jupiter signs, average gap 26°.
  • Johnny Cash is the nearest in music (1932): same Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Born on March 4

March 4 also belongs to Antonio Vivaldi (1678, music), Cameron Winter (2002, music) and Volodymyr Ivasyuk (1949, music). Johannesburg is also the birthplace of Sasha Pieterse and Troye Sivan. March 4, 1932 was a Friday, and the Moon was a waning crescent.

Among musicians

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Aquarius is the rarest among musicians (4%), closest to Harry Belafonte and Olivia Dean. Pisces ranks 3rd of 12 Suns here (10%, against 7% across the base), with Johnny Cash and Kenshi Yonezu nearest on the same Sun.

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Pisces compatibility

By NEBO’s love chemistry, a Pisces Sun clicks most with Aries, Gemini and Aquarius. Pisces with every sign →

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