Singer & songwriter

Marvin Gaye

Fought Motown to release What's Going On, an album about Vietnam, poverty and the environment that the label thought was commercial suicide. His father shot him the day before his forty-fifth birthday.

Born1939-04-02, Washington, D.C., USAA Sunday
Died1984-04-01, Los Angeles, California, USAA Sunday, aged 44
At birthSun in Aries, Moon in Virgo

Birth Chart

1939-04-02, Washington, D.C., USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/New_Yorkthe zone used then

Ordered-orbit layout: angles come from chart longitudes; orbit radii are fixed by planet order. Moon orbits Earth.

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunAries12°03′Direct
MoonVirgo22°13′Direct
MercuryAries13°11′Retrograde
VenusPisces2°46′Direct
MarsCapricorn6°47′Direct
JupiterPisces21°32′Direct
SaturnAries19°51′Direct
UranusTaurus15°47′Direct
NeptuneVirgo21°24′Retrograde
PlutoCancer29°14′Retrograde

This is Marvin Gaye's chart for 1939-04-02, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Death Chart

1984-04-01, Los Angeles, California, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/Los_Angelesthe zone used then

Ordered-orbit layout: angles come from chart longitudes; orbit radii are fixed by planet order. Moon orbits Earth.

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunAries12°16′Direct
MoonAries15°53′Direct
MercuryTaurus1°07′Direct
VenusPisces22°35′Direct
MarsScorpio28°15′Direct
JupiterCapricorn11°45′Direct
SaturnScorpio15°15′Retrograde
UranusSagittarius13°28′Retrograde
NeptuneCapricorn1°25′Direct
PlutoScorpio1°16′Retrograde

This is Marvin Gaye's chart for 1984-04-01, the day they died, cast the same way a birth chart is cast. Cast one for any recorded date. It predicts nothing: the date is one you already have.

Their Astrocartography

Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Marvin Gaye was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.

The birth time is unknown, so this map is cast for noon. The SHAPE of it is right and the whole pattern slides east or west with the real time, so treat the longitudes as approximate.

Sun MCSun ICSun ACSun DCMoon MCMoon ICMoon ACMoon DCMercury MCMercury ICMercury ACMercury DCVenus MCVenus ICVenus ACVenus DCMars MCMars ICMars ACMars DCJupiter MCJupiter ICJupiter ACJupiter DCSaturn MCSaturn ICSaturn ACSaturn DCUranus MCUranus ICUranus ACUranus DCNeptune MCNeptune ICNeptune ACNeptune DCPluto MCPluto ICPluto ACPluto DC
Ring, where you were bornTap a line for what it meansZoom with the buttons · full screen to pinch, drag and rotate

Ten planets on four angles is forty lines, which is more than the interactive tool opens with on purpose. Draw your own map to choose which planets to show.

Charts are computed from real planetary positions (Swiss Ephemeris) for the recorded moment and place. Recorded times can carry small uncertainties; treat house and ascendant placements accordingly.