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Musician · Aquarius Sun

The Weeknd birth chart

February 16, 1990
Toronto, Canada

☉︎SunAquarius

☽︎MoonScorpio

Main elementWater 42%

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Scorpio Moon, an anonymous start to Starboy

The Weeknd began releasing music anonymously in 2009, which is an unusual first move.

Mars in Capricorn, Venus in Capricorn and Saturn in Capricorn read as patient, building in stages, and the stages show: three mixtapes in 2011, Trilogy in 2012, Kiss Land in 2013, then alternative R&B blended with pop on Beauty Behind the Madness in 2015 and Starboy in 2016.

Astrologers read a Scorpio Moon, joined here by Pluto in Scorpio, as private and intense, and this chart has a known birth hour, so the Moon is fixed.

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Moon in Scorpio

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Pluto in Scorpio

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Mars in Capricorn

Only in this chart

It takes four placements to single out The Weeknd: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Scorpio, Mercury in Aquarius and Saturn in Capricorn. Plácido Domingo comes closest: same Sun, Moon and Mercury, but Saturn in Taurus.

Only four signs in play. Ten planets crowd into four signs, fewer than 99% of charts here use.
Sun in Aquarius with Saturn in Capricorn. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 145 here, Sam Cooke and Rubius among them.

What the chart says

In astrology, an Aquarius Sun reads as original and independent, a Scorpio Moon as intense and private: signs at a right angle, so outer self and inner self argue, the same pair Plácido Domingo carries. Elements run water 42%, air 29%, earth 22%, fire 7%, fixed first at 53%, the nearest mix to George Michael.

Planets

Gold lines: Venus conjunct Saturn (2.0°), Sun trine Jupiter (3.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♒︎ Aquarius 27°refuses the defaultnearest chart: Jim Brown 27°
☽︎Moon · emotions♏︎ Scorpio 17°keeps feelings locked upnearest chart: Beyoncé 26°
☿︎Mercury · mind♒︎ Aquarius 6°thinks ten years aheadnearest chart: George Washington 6°
♀︎Venus · taste♑︎ Capricorn 22°trusts what lastsnearest chart: victorosimhen 22°
♂︎Mars · drive♑︎ Capricorn 13°climbs without dramanearest chart: Arda Güler 13°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♋︎ Cancer 0° ^℞grows through home and rootsnearest chart: bryanjohnson 0°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♑︎ Capricorn 20°learns to put the load downnearest chart: Taco Hemingway 20°

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

Moon conjunct Pluto (0.4°). The mood and the need for control act as one, which only a known birth hour can show.
Mars conjunct Neptune (0.4°). Drive and the dreamer side act as one, and only Zara Larsson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bill Clinton have it tighter.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Severus Snape
Marvel: Vision
Star Wars: Mace Windu
Valorant: Cypher
The Elder Scrolls: Martin Septim
Fullmetal Alchemist: Van Hohenheim
Charmed: Richard Montana

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Famous people whose charts click with The Weeknd

Drake leads at 96%, Kurt Cobain closes the list at 92%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Rubius, born 3 days earlier: every planet from Sun to Saturn lands in the same sign.
Buzz Aldrin, 60 years earlier, repeats the Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn signs, average gap 23°.
Max Barskih is the nearest in music (1990): same Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, split on Sun and Mercury.

Born on February 16

February 16 also belongs to Ava Max (1994, music), Denzel Curry (1995, rap) and Ice-T (1958, rap). Toronto is also the birthplace of Christopher Plummer and Shenae Grimes. February 16, 1990 was a Friday, and the Moon was waning gibbous.

Among musicians

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Scorpio is the rarest among musicians (5%), closest to Hector Berlioz and Kali Uchis. Aquarius ranks 10th of 12 Suns here (6%, against 8% across the base), with Blanco and Harry Styles nearest on the same Sun.