Karim Benzema’s birth chart
Born 19 December 1987, in Lyon, France, at 22:10 (Rodden AA).
Sagittarius Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Virgo rising
Karim Benzema’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
19 December 1987 was a Saturday: the day Karim Benzema was born in Lyon, France. Their zodiac sign is Sagittarius, with the Moon in Sagittarius and Virgo rising. Karim turns 39 in 2026. The birth time, 22:10, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
By element the count is six fire, two earth, two water and no air. By modality the count is five mutable, three cardinal and two fixed. Five planets stand together in Sagittarius: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Uranus: a conjunction, 0.5° from exact. Every planet was moving direct. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 19 December, among them Édith Piaf, Jake Gyllenhaal and Lee Myung-bak.
See the sky the night Karim was born: the stars over Lyon, France at 22:10, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Karim Benzema’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
27° Sagittarius 25'
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Karim Benzema forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon sign
Sagittarius
15° Sagittarius 19'
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Karim, and being fenced in by other people's moods tends to weigh them down. This Moon needs room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Rising sign
Virgo
0° Virgo 09'
Virgo rising gives Karim a first impression that is precise, observant and modest. People tend to trust the judgement of a Virgo rising and sometimes mistake that reserve for coolness, until they see how much help is on offer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 22:10 on 19 December 1987, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 27° Sagittarius 25' | House 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 15° Sagittarius 19' | House 4 |
| Mercury | 25° Sagittarius 29' | House 4 |
| Venus | 27° Capricorn 02' | House 5 |
| Mars | 16° Scorpio 54' | House 3 |
| Jupiter | 19° Aries 47' | House 9 |
| Saturn | 24° Sagittarius 02' | House 4 |
| Uranus | 26° Sagittarius 55' | House 4 |
| Neptune | 7° Capricorn 19' | House 5 |
| Pluto | 11° Scorpio 39' | House 3 |
| North Node | 27° Pisces 52' | House 8 |
| South Node | 27° Virgo 52' | House 2 |
Karim Benzema’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Karim Benzema’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Karim Benzema's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
The Sun in the fourth house places home and family at the centre of a person's sense of self, and for Karim it points to roots that may matter more than any job title or public reputation. People with this placement tend to think best within four walls they have made their own.
The Moon in Sagittarius needs room to move and a bit of novelty in its routine to feel right. A schedule with no give in it can make Karim edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
For Karim, the Moon in the fourth house can make home the place where emotions live, and the placement is associated with unusual sensitivity to the mood of a household. A settled home probably steadies almost everything else, while chaos there can unsettle them quickly.
Karim's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
Mercury in the fourth house turns the mind towards home, family and origins, and for Karim conversations with family may carry more weight than usual. Mercury here is associated with a way of thinking shaped early, in ways a person goes on discovering as an adult.
For Karim, 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.
Venus in the fifth house can bring romance, creativity and pure enjoyment alive for Karim, and is associated with falling for people and projects with visible enthusiasm. Playfulness may well be one of Karim's most attractive qualities, drawing people in without much effort.
In Karim's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
Mars in the third house makes words come out fast, with a sharp edge under frustration, and Karim probably enjoys a good, direct debate more than most. Directness is how they communicate by default, even when a gentler approach might land better.
Jupiter in Aries
19° Aries 47' · ninth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aries grows through bold, direct action and taking the first step before feeling fully ready. Karim's overreach, on this reading, is starting more than can realistically be finished. A burst of confidence tends to get a new venture off the ground, whether or not the groundwork is in place.
The ninth house is Jupiter's natural home, and travel, higher learning and big philosophical questions excite Karim more than almost anything else. Someone with this placement is often the first to say yes to the unplanned trip or the ambitious course of study.
Saturn in Sagittarius builds discipline around belief and meaning, testing a big idea hard before committing to it. In front of people who might challenge a conviction, Karim is likely to hedge. Over time, someone with this Saturn often becomes a credible voice on the very questions they once felt they had no right to answer.
Saturn sits in the fourth house of Karim's chart, a placement linked with the weight of home and family responsibility on a person's shoulders, often from early on. With this placement, a stable home is apt to be built by sustained effort, and the security created there tends to mean more because of the work it takes.
Uranus in Sagittarius
26° Sagittarius 55' · fourth house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Sagittarius is less about Karim than about the years around their birth. People of that age transform belief and access to knowledge, often through unprecedented exposure to other cultures and ideas. The personal trace is a restlessness with any single worldview presented as the only one.
Uranus in the fourth house goes with an unconventional idea of home, and Karim may well need more independence within a household than most people do. Stability, with this placement, probably includes room to be different rather than a fixed routine imposed from outside.
Neptune in Capricorn
7° Capricorn 19' · fifth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Capricorn is shared by Karim 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.
For Karim, romance and creativity may carry a dreamlike, sometimes idealised quality, and Neptune in the fifth house can fall for a fantasy as easily as for an actual person. Artistic expression, in whatever form, probably gives Karim's imagination somewhere solid to go.
Pluto in Scorpio
11° Scorpio 39' · third house
power, generational
Pluto is at home in Scorpio, and the generation born with it lives through profound upheavals in power, secrecy and shared taboos. Karim's own share may be an unusually deep comfort with intensity that others would find overwhelming.
With Pluto in the third house, Karim's mind is drawn to what lies underneath a conversation, and they rarely settle for the tidy, surface version of an explanation. Words can be a way of exposing what other people would rather leave hidden, even when that makes things briefly uncomfortable.
Aspects in Karim Benzema’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Sun conjunction Uranus
0.5° separating
Independence is central to Karim Benzema's identity with the Sun conjunct Uranus, along with a resistance to being defined by anyone else's idea of them. It makes them original and hard to predict, and the catch is a restlessness with routines that could serve them well.
Mercury conjunction Uranus
1.4° applying
Karim's thinking is likely to be quick, original and a step ahead of convention, with insights that arrive suddenly rather than through slow reasoning. Mercury conjunct Uranus makes for inventive thinking, and the courtesy worth learning is explaining the leap so that other people can follow it too.
Mercury conjunction Saturn
1.4° separating
With Mercury conjunct Saturn, Karim's thinking is likely to be careful and structured, and they tend to say only what they are sure of. That makes their word worth taking, and the risk is that caution keeps an idea back until it feels perfectly finished.
Sun conjunction Mercury
1.9° applying
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Karim'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.
Saturn conjunction Uranus
2.9° applying
With discipline and the need for independence fused, Karim tends to build structure their own way instead of inheriting someone else's. Saturn conjunct Uranus makes them an original builder, and the challenge is letting a good structure stay flexible and not harden into another rule.
Sun conjunction Saturn
3.4° separating
With the Sun conjunct Saturn, identity is built through discipline and steady effort, often with an early sense that a place has to be worked for rather than assumed. It tends to make Karim reliable and serious, and the growth comes from believing that they have done enough to rest.
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.
- Jupiter trine Saturn4.2°
- Neptune sextile Pluto4.3°
- Moon trine Jupiter4.5°
- Mars conjunction Pluto5.3°
- Mercury trine Jupiter5.7°
- Sun trine Jupiter7.6°
- Moon conjunction Saturn8.7°
Sagittarius Sun and Sagittarius Moon, like Karim Benzema
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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; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its 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, Astro-Databank (BC/BR in hand). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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