Celebrity charts · Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey's birth chart: "My Cancer is Sun, and my Leo is Moon"
She tweeted 4:47 PM and sang her big three on Chemtrails Over the Country Club. Computed: Cancer Sun, Leo Moon, Scorpio rising.
Photo: Jessica Devnani / Burst
At a glance
0°24′ Cancer Sun, 10°34′ Leo Moon, 15°28′ Scorpio rising.
- Born
- June 21, 19854:47 PM, New York, New York
- Sun
- 0°24′ Cancer9th house
- Moon
- 10°34′ Leo10th house
- Rising
- 15°28′ Scorpio79 min in, 74 min to go
- Chart ruler
- Mars in Cancer9th house
- Data rating
- Rodden Aa named source
Compare your chart with Lana's15°28′ Scorpio rising, 74 minutes from the nearest sign line.
4:47 PM
A tweet, a lyric and a rising-sign guess
"My Cancer is Sun, and my Leo is Moon." Computed: both true.
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Lana Del Rey has been unusually open about her chart. She tweeted, "I'm actually a cancer I was born at 4:47 PM." On Chemtrails Over the Country Club she sings "My Cancer is Sun, and my Leo is Moon." And in an interview she guessed her rising sign was "either a Gemini or a Cancer again" and wondered aloud.
Astro-Databank rates her own stated time A. At 4:47 PM EDT on June 21, 1985 in New York, our computation gives the Sun at 0°24′ Cancer, Moon at 10°34′ Leo, and the ascendant at 15°28′ Scorpio. Her lyric is right. Her rising-sign guess was not, which is completely normal: you cannot see your ascendant without doing the maths.
Note how close the Sun is to Gemini, under half a degree. She was born on the solstice day, hours after the Sun entered Cancer.
The sky behind it
1985-06-21 20:47 UTC, 40n43, 74w00. It stays Scorpio for about 79 minutes earlier and 74 minutes later. Method on the hub.
Cancer, Leo, Scorpio
Sun in Cancer, Moon in Leo, Scorpio rising
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- Born around June 21? Check whether your Sun is in Gemini or Cancer below. Hers is just under half a degree into Cancer.
The Cancer Sun, born on the June solstice, is in the ninth house with Mercury and Mars. Three planets in Cancer make a small stellium: memory, home, longing and old Americana in the tradition's language. The ninth house adds travel, distance and the dream of elsewhere.
The Leo Moon sits at the top of a whole-sign chart in the tenth house. Leo is the dramatic, glamorous sign, and a tenth-house Moon is one that lives in public. Put a nostalgic Cancer Sun under a cinematic Leo Moon and you have, astrologically speaking, a film star from another decade.
Scorpio rising gives the intense, guarded, slightly noir front door. Saturn and Pluto were both in Scorpio in 1985, and both sit in her first house, retrograde.
The sky behind it
Waxing Crescent, 40.2°. Fire 2 · Earth 2 · Air 1 · Water 5; cardinal 4 · fixed 5 · mutable 1.
Mars, chart ruler
Mars, her chart ruler, in the Cancer stack
With Scorpio rising, her chart ruler is Mars, and Mars is in Cancer in the ninth house, part of that three-planet stellium with the Sun and Mercury. Astrologers read Mars in Cancer as drive that runs on feeling: protective, moody, and fierce about what it loves.
Venus in Taurus, in its own sign, sits in the seventh house of partnerships. It sextiles Mercury and squares Jupiter in Aquarius, both within about a degree and a half. The tradition reads Venus in Taurus as a lush, sensual sense of beauty.
Her Saturn return ran in three passes from January to October 2014. Ultraviolence came out that June, right in the middle of it. We note the timing; we are not claiming it caused anything.
The sky behind it
Tightest aspects (orb): Neptune sextile Pluto 0.25°; Jupiter sextile Uranus 1.13°; Mercury sextile Venus 1.47°; Venus square Jupiter 1.59°; Sun trine Pluto 1.64°. Stelliums (3+ planets in a sign): Cancer (Sun, Mercury, Mars).
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Rising sign: 15°28′ Scorpio.
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Rating A
Rodden A: Del Rey herself, on Twitter (Scholfield)
American singer, songwriter and producer whose album Born to Die (2012) debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. Why we stop at A is on the hub.
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10 bodies, 10 aspects
Scorpio is the 1st house here (whole sign).
| Body | Position | House |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | 0°24′ Cancer | 9th |
| Moon | 10°34′ Leo | 10th |
| Mercury | 16°24′ Cancer | 9th |
| Venus | 14°55′ Taurus | 7th |
| Mars | 8°15′ Cancer | 9th |
| Jupiter (Rx) | 16°31′ Aquarius | 4th |
| Saturn (Rx) | 22°22′ Scorpio | 1st |
| Uranus (Rx) | 15°23′ Sagittarius | 2nd |
| Neptune (Rx) | 2°18′ Capricorn | 3rd |
| Pluto (Rx) | 2°02′ Scorpio | 1st |
| Ascendant | 15°28′ Scorpio | 1st |
| Midheaven | 25°28′ Leo | |
| North Node (mean) | 16°03′ Taurus | 7th |
| Aspect | Orb |
|---|---|
| Neptune sextile Pluto | 0.25° |
| Jupiter sextile Uranus | 1.13° |
| Mercury sextile Venus | 1.47° |
| Venus square Jupiter | 1.59° |
| Sun trine Pluto | 1.64° |
| Sun opposite Neptune | 1.89° |
| Moon square Venus | 4.35° |
| Moon trine Uranus | 4.81° |
| Jupiter square Saturn | 5.85° |
| Moon opposite Jupiter | 5.94° |
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Date and time | June 21, 1985, 4:47 PM (UTC-4) |
| Place | New York, New York (40n43, 74w00) |
| Source | Del Rey herself, on Twitter (Scholfield) |
| Astro-Databank prints | Sun 00°24′, Moon 10°34′, Asc 15°28′ |
| Saturn return | January 28, 2014; April 6, 2014; October 18, 2014 |
All times are UTC. In the Americas the local date can be a day earlier; in Asia and Australia a day later.
Quick answers
What is Lana Del Rey's birth chart?
June 21, 1985, 4:47 PM, New York, New York: Sun 0°24′ Cancer, Moon 10°34′ Leo, Venus 14°55′ Taurus, Mars 8°15′ Cancer, rising 15°28′ Scorpio.
What is Lana Del Rey's rising sign?
Scorpio, at 15°28′, from the 4:47 PM time she tweeted (Astro-Databank rating A). She once guessed Gemini or Cancer; the computation says Scorpio.
Is Lana Del Rey a Gemini or Cancer?
A Cancer, as she has said herself. Her Sun was at 0°24′ Cancer, just after the June solstice.
What time was Lana Del Rey born?
4:47 PM, UTC-4; A (from memory or the person's own statement).
