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IU’s birth chart

Born 16 May 1993, in Songjeong-dong, South Korea. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.

Taurus Sun · Pisces Moon

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IU’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief

IU was born on Sunday, 16 May 1993, in Songjeong-dong, South Korea. The Sun was in Taurus, so Taurus is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Pisces. IU turns 33 in 2026. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.

By element the count is four earth, two fire, two air and two water. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, five and one. Closest of the aspects is the conjunction between Sun and Mercury, exact to a tenth of a degree. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was a waning crescent.

StarMap's dataset holds 21 other people born on 16 May, among them Megan Fox, Pierce Brosnan and Janet Jackson.

See the sky the day IU was born: the stars over Songjeong-dong, South Korea, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.

IU’s Sun, Moon and rising sign

Sun sign

Taurus

about 25° Taurus at midday

A Taurus Sun builds. Comfort, steadiness and things that last probably matter more to IU than novelty, and people tend to trust someone who does not change their mind for show. The growth edge is letting go before something stops working.

All Taurus Suns

Moon sign

Pisces

in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time

With the Moon in Pisces, IU 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.

Everyone with the Moon in Pisces

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 Songjeong-dong, South Korea, at each hour of the day.

IU’s rising sign, by birth time

StarMap has not verified a birth time for IU 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 16 May 1993, computed for Songjeong-dong, South Korea.

Rising sign by time of birth, local time
Born around (local time)Rising sign
00:00 to 00:10Capricorn rising
00:10 to 01:40Aquarius rising
01:40 to 03:00Pisces rising
03:00 to 04:15Aries rising
04:15 to 05:45Taurus rising
05:45 to 07:40Gemini rising
07:40 to 10:00Cancer rising
10:00 to 12:30Leo rising
12:30 to 14:55Virgo rising
14:55 to 17:25Libra rising
17:25 to 19:50Scorpio rising
19:50 to 22:10Sagittarius rising
22:10 to 24:00Capricorn rising

Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.

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The chart wheel

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Drawn for midday on 16 May 1993, 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

IU’s planets by sign
Sun25° Taurus 15'
MoonPisces
Mercury25° Taurus 16'
Venus12° Aries 38'
Mars9° Leo 01'
Jupiter5° Libra 08'℞
Saturn29° Aquarius 48'
Uranus22° Capricorn 01'℞
Neptune21° Capricorn 00'℞
Pluto24° Scorpio 06'℞
North Node12° Sagittarius 18'
South Node12° Gemini 18'

Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.

IU’s planets, sign by sign

Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about IU’s private life.

  1. Sun in Taurus

    25° Taurus 15' at midday

    purpose and vitality

    A Taurus Sun finds purpose in building something that lasts, and IU's vitality probably runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The drawback is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. People with this Sun can stay in one job or one home long after part of them knows it is time to move.

  2. Moon in Pisces

    Pisces, all day

    needs and habits

    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 IU more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.

  3. Mercury in Taurus

    25° Taurus 16' at midday

    mind and voice

    With Mercury in Taurus, IU is likely to think slowly and thoroughly, and a conclusion once reached is rarely revisited without good reason. The communication style is plain and practical rather than showy. A new idea that clashes with what they already believe may have to wait a while for a hearing.

  4. Venus in Aries

    12° Aries 38' at midday

    love and values

    Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For IU that suggests an interest that can fade once the chase is over. The pattern is to fall fast and to need a relationship to keep feeling like a choice, not a routine.

  5. Mars in Leo

    9° Leo 01' at midday

    drive and anger

    Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for IU its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.

  6. Jupiter in Libra

    5° Libra 08' at midday ℞

    growth and excess

    In IU's chart, Jupiter in Libra suggests growth through partnership and a gift for bringing people together. Excess here looks like pleasing people so broadly that every expectation becomes a commitment. Someone with this Jupiter is often the connector whose introductions and events other people benefit from more than they realise.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius

    29° Aquarius 48' at midday

    discipline and doubt

    With Saturn in Aquarius, IU's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn

    22° Capricorn 01' at midday ℞

    freedom, generational

    Many people within a few years of IU's age share Uranus in Capricorn, the mark of a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and structures of authority. Personally, that can mean scepticism towards any system that asks for trust without having shown why it deserves it.

  9. Neptune in Capricorn

    21° Capricorn 00' at midday ℞

    imagination, generational

    Neptune in Capricorn is shared by IU and about fourteen years of births. The imagination of the generation questions or idealises authority and ambition, often shaped by wide disillusionment with institutions. The personal version may be an uneasy relationship with conventional success.

  10. Pluto in Scorpio

    24° Scorpio 06' at midday ℞

    power, generational

    Pluto is at home in Scorpio, and the generation born with it lives through profound upheavals in power, secrecy and shared taboos. IU's own share may be an unusually deep comfort with intensity that others would find overwhelming.

Aspects in IU’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.

  1. Sun conjunction Mercury

    about 0.0° at midday

    With the Sun conjunct Mercury, IU's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.

  2. Sun opposition Pluto

    about 1.2° at midday

    The Sun opposite Pluto sets plain self-assertion against the draw of power struggles with people who seem to threaten IU's sense of control. Working through it leaves IU with a strength that has no need to prove itself.

  3. Mercury opposition Pluto

    about 1.2° at midday

    With Mercury opposite Pluto, other people's attempts to control the story can collide with IU's own conclusions and turn a disagreement into a deeper power struggle. Staying with the argument itself, rather than the fight for control, resolves more.

  4. Sun trine Uranus

    about 3.2° at midday

    Being original feels easy rather than effortful with this aspect, because IU's sense of self and need for freedom sit comfortably together. They are likely to gravitate towards places that let them be exactly who they are without much friction.

  5. Mercury trine Uranus

    about 3.2° at midday

    Insight is likely to come to IU fast and without much effort, the product of thinking and originality that flow together easily. With Mercury trine Uranus, new ideas tend to arrive when they are needed, often faster than they can be written down.

  6. Venus trine Mars

    about 3.6° at midday

    IU is likely to have a warm, confident way of going after what, and who, they want, since affection and drive back each other up. Romance and creative work tend to come without strain under this trine, in a manner other people find refreshingly straightforward.

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.

  • Uranus conjunction Neptuneabout 1.0°
  • Uranus sextile Plutoabout 2.1°
  • Neptune sextile Plutoabout 3.1°
  • Mars sextile Jupiterabout 3.9°
  • Sun trine Neptuneabout 4.3°
  • Mercury trine Neptuneabout 4.3°
  • Mercury square Saturnabout 4.5°
  • Sun square Saturnabout 4.6°
  • Saturn square Plutoabout 5.7°
  • Venus opposition Jupiterabout 7.5°

Taurus Sun and Pisces Moon, like IU

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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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