Erykah Badu’s birth chart
Born 26 February 1971, in Dallas, Texas. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Moon in Pisces or Aries
Erykah Badu’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
26 February 1971 was a Friday: the day Erykah Badu was born in Dallas, Texas. That makes Erykah a Pisces. The Moon left Pisces for Aries at about 17:30 local time, which leaves the Moon sign open without a birth time. Erykah turns 55 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Erykah, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is three fire, three earth, one air and one water, leaving out the Moon and Mercury, whose signs depend on the birth time. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is two, one and five. Sagittarius holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mars, Jupiter and Neptune. The tightest aspect is Sun square Jupiter, about 2.0° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Two planets were retrograde: Uranus and Pluto. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 26 February, among them Johnny Cash, Michel Houellebecq and Pepe.
See the sky the day Erykah was born: the stars over Dallas, Texas, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Erykah Badu’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 7° Pisces at midday
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Erykah Badu the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Pisces or Aries
Pisces until about 17:30, then Aries (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 17:30: Moon in Pisces
With the Moon in Pisces, Erykah may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Born after about 17:30: Moon in Aries
With the Moon in Aries, Erykah is likely to feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and feeling needs a physical outlet. This is a Moon soothed by action, not by talking it over.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Dallas, Texas, at each hour of the day.
Erykah Badu’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Erykah yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 26 February 1971, computed for Dallas, Texas.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:50 | Scorpio rising |
| 00:50 to 03:10 | Sagittarius rising |
| 03:10 to 05:10 | Capricorn rising |
| 05:10 to 06:45 | Aquarius rising |
| 06:45 to 08:05 | Pisces rising |
| 08:05 to 09:25 | Aries rising |
| 09:25 to 11:00 | Taurus rising |
| 11:00 to 13:00 | Gemini rising |
| 13:00 to 15:20 | Cancer rising |
| 15:20 to 17:40 | Leo rising |
| 17:40 to 20:05 | Virgo rising |
| 20:05 to 22:25 | Libra rising |
| 22:25 to 24:00 | Scorpio rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 26 February 1971, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 7° Pisces 29' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Pisces until about 17:30, then Aries |
| Mercury | Aquarius until about 01:55, then Pisces |
| Venus | 23° Capricorn 48' |
| Mars | 21° Sagittarius 38' |
| Jupiter | 5° Sagittarius 31' |
| Saturn | 17° Taurus 10' |
| Uranus | 12° Libra 53'℞ |
| Neptune | 3° Sagittarius 03' |
| Pluto | 28° Virgo 55'℞ |
| North Node | 23° Aquarius 37' |
| South Node | 23° Leo 37' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Erykah Badu’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Erykah Badu’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Erykah Badu's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
Moon in Pisces or Aries
Pisces until about 17:30, then Aries
needs and habits
Born before about 17:30: Moon in Pisces
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Erykah more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
Born after about 17:30: Moon in Aries
The Moon in Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For Erykah, comfort probably comes from action rather than discussion. The instinct of this Moon is to pace the room or go for a walk rather than sit with a feeling until it passes on its own.
Mercury in Aquarius or Pisces
Aquarius until about 01:55, then Pisces
mind and voice
Born before about 01:55: Mercury in Aquarius
In Erykah's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
Born after about 01:55: Mercury in Pisces
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Erykah is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.
For Erykah, Venus in Capricorn means loving in a measured, committed way and valuing stability, ambition and someone to build a life with. The trap is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. With this Venus, love comes out more easily as providing and planning than as words said out loud.
Mars in Sagittarius acts boldly and wants room to move while doing it, and its anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on freedom. Erykah may speak bluntly in the heat of the moment and smooth it over later. Given the choice, this placement walks away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
Jupiter in Sagittarius
5° Sagittarius 31' at midday
growth and excess
With Jupiter in Sagittarius, Erykah is likely to grow through travel, study and direct experience of things bigger than ordinary life. The excess may be promising more than circumstances can deliver, out of optimism rather than dishonesty. This Jupiter carries a conviction that things will work out, and other people borrow it when theirs runs low.
Saturn in Taurus gathers its discipline around security and the things a person relies on, and Erykah is likely to take very little for granted. The doubt is a fear that stability could disappear, even when it clearly has not. This placement likes to know what things cost before committing, and tends to stay careful even in steady times.
Uranus in Libra
12° Libra 53' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Erykah holds Uranus in Libra in common with many people born in the same stretch of years. Together that generation reshapes ideas of partnership, fairness and how relationships are arranged. Its personal side is a readiness to question traditional roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.
Neptune in Sagittarius
3° Sagittarius 03' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Erykah in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Virgo
28° Virgo 55' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Virgo is shared by Erykah and many people born in the same span of years. That generation lives through deep change in work, in how services are organised, and in daily life itself. In one person that can be intensity around control, order and how much any one system can carry.
Aspects in Erykah Badu’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Sun square Jupiter
about 2.0° at midday
Ambition can outpace what time and energy will realistically support, and with this aspect Erykah Badu may promise more than can be delivered and then walk it back. The lesson of a Sun-Jupiter square is scaling a good instinct to a size that holds.
Mercury square Neptune
about 2.3° at midday
Wishful assumptions, or a compelling but unverified story, can blur thinking when Mercury is square Neptune. What helps Erykah is pairing imagination with a habit of checking the details before repeating the story as though it were settled fact.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune
about 2.5° at midday
For Erykah, growth is likely to be idealistic and compassionate, a matter of causes, beliefs or visions bigger than daily concerns. Jupiter conjunct Neptune supplies the inspiration and leaves them the job of checking a beautiful idea against what can be achieved.
Sun square Neptune
about 4.4° at midday
A Sun-Neptune square can blur Erykah's sense of who they are under the pull of an ideal, a cause or someone else's story, until it is unclear where they end and the dream begins. The task is staying inspired without losing their own outline.
Mercury square Jupiter
about 4.8° at midday
Thinking can run ahead of the evidence when Mercury is square Jupiter, leading to overconfident claims or promises made faster than Erykah can check them. Matching enthusiasm to what has been verified makes their confidence more durable, not less.
Venus trine Pluto
about 5.1° at midday
With Venus trine Pluto, affection and the capacity for change tend to strengthen each other in Erykah's chart, the kind of pairing that gives relationships staying power through hard times. Depth can arrive here without constant upheaval, and that is rarer, and more durable, than the intensity some people mistake for closeness.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Neptune sextile Plutoabout 4.1°
- Sun conjunction Mercuryabout 6.8°
Pisces Suns born within 2 years of Erykah Badu
Also born on 26 February
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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