Cellist
Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist who has recorded the Bach suites three times across forty years and founded the Silk Road Ensemble to play the music of the trade routes. Born in Paris to Chinese parents.
Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four. Ma moved with his family to Boston at age seven and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 92 albums, and received 20 Grammy Awards.
- Born
- 1955-10-07, Paris, FranceA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Libra, Moon in Gemini
- Nationality
- France
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1955-10-07, Paris, France · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Paristhe zone used then
Europe/ParisThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 13°24′ | Direct |
| Moon | Gemini | 28°35′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Libra | 26°28′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Libra | 23°03′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 26°09′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Leo | 24°19′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 19°10′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Leo | 1°52′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 27°25′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 27°54′ | Direct |
Yo-Yo Ma is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Yo-Yo Ma was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.