Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s birth chart

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

1. ☉Sun in Taurus

   ♉ 29° Taurus 07'

   purpose and vitality

   They find purpose in building something that lasts, and their vitality runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The tension is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. It shows up in how long they stay at one job or one home before they will admit it is time to move.

2. ☽Moon in Scorpio

   ♏ 6° Scorpio 00'

   needs and habits

   Their emotional needs run deep and private, and they would rather manage a hard feeling alone than explain it while it is still raw. Daily trust is earned slowly and rarely given back once broken. It shows up as needing real privacy, even in a home full of people they love.

3. ☿Mercury in Taurus

   ♉ 14° Taurus 12'

   mind and voice

   They think slowly and thoroughly, and once they have reached a conclusion they rarely revisit it without good reason. Their communication is plain and practical rather than showy. The tension is taking a while to consider a new idea that clashes with what they already believe.

4. ♀Venus in Cancer

   ♋ 11° Cancer 33'

   love and values

   They love by nurturing, and they value emotional safety over almost anything else in a relationship. The tension is holding onto old hurts long after the person who caused them has changed. It shows up as feeding people, checking on people and quietly keeping score of who has shown up for they.

5. ♂Mars in Cancer

   ♋ 23° Cancer 21'

   drive and anger

   They act to protect the people and things they care about, and their anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The tension is going quiet or indirect instead of naming what upset they. It shows up as a mood shift that takes people a while to trace back to its actual cause.

6. ♃Jupiter in Scorpio

   ♏ 26° Scorpio 51' ℞

   growth and excess

   They grow through facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, which tends to pay off later even when it costs something now. The overreach is an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. It shows up as a resilience people notice only after they have already come through the hard part.

7. ♄Saturn in Capricorn

   ♑ 6° Capricorn 09' ℞

   discipline and doubt

   Saturn is at home here, and they build discipline as naturally as breathing, often carrying responsibility earlier than most people their age. The doubt shows up as never quite believing they have achieved enough to relax. It shows up as an authority that others recognise well before Israel is willing to claim it themselves.

8. ♅Uranus in Leo

   ♌ 12° Leo 38'

   freedom, generational

   Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who redefine self-expression and individuality, often through new forms of creativity and visibility unavailable to earlier generations. Personally, it can show up as comfort being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.

9. ♆Neptune in Scorpio

   ♏ 4° Scorpio 57' ℞

   imagination, generational

   Shared across this generation, this placement marks people whose collective imagination is drawn to the hidden, the taboo and the transformative, often through a wider cultural fascination with secrets and endings. Personally, it can show up as being pulled toward mystery for its own sake.

10. ♇Pluto in Virgo

    ♍ 1° Virgo 40'

    power, generational

    Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of work, health systems and daily life itself. Personally, it can show up as intensity around control, order and what a body or a system can actually handle.

Aspects

How the planets in Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

1. Moon sextile Saturn

   0.1° separating

   Their feelings and their sense of structure cooperate, giving they a workable, grounded way of managing difficult emotions. This is quiet resilience rather than avoidance, the kind that holds up well over a genuinely long stretch of time.

2. Moon conjunction Neptune

   1.1° separating

   Their emotional life is deeply sensitive and imaginative, and they pick up on the moods around they almost before they register their own. This gives they real empathy, and the growth edge is learning whose feelings actually belong to they.

3. Saturn sextile Neptune

   1.2° applying

   Their discipline and their imagination cooperate gently, giving their ideas a workable, grounded shape without losing their spark. This is quiet, practical creativity that tends to produce something people can actually use, not just admire.

4. Mercury square Uranus

   1.6° separating

   Their thinking can jump so quickly that other people struggle to follow, or they dismis a slower approach that actually had merit. The lesson is pacing a genuinely good idea so it can actually be used.

• Sun opposition Jupiter2.3°
• Sun square Pluto2.6°
• Mercury sextile Venus2.7°
• Neptune sextile Pluto3.3°
• Mars trine Jupiter3.5°
• Moon sextile Pluto4.3°
• Saturn trine Pluto4.5°
• Jupiter square Pluto4.8°
• Venus opposition Saturn5.4°
• Moon trine Venus5.5°
• Sun sextile Mars5.8°
• Venus trine Neptune6.6°
• Moon square Uranus6.6°
• Moon opposition Mercury8.2°