Katie Melua’s birth chart
Born 16 September 1984, in Kutaisi, Georgia. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Virgo Sun · Moon in Taurus or Gemini
Katie Melua’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Katie Melua was born on Sunday, 16 September 1984, in Kutaisi, Georgia. The Sun was in Virgo, so Virgo is their zodiac sign. The Moon was in Taurus until about 13:25 and in Gemini afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Katie turns 42 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Katie, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is three fire, three earth, two water and one air, leaving out the Moon, whose sign depends on the birth time. Mutable signs hold five, cardinal signs two and fixed signs two. Sagittarius holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mars, Uranus and Neptune. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Venus and Mars: a sextile, about 1.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Every planet was moving direct. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 16 September, among them Lauren Bacall, B. B. King and David Copperfield.
See the sky the day Katie was born: the stars over Kutaisi, Georgia, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Katie Melua’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Virgo
about 23° Virgo at midday
A Virgo Sun refines. Katie Melua is likely to notice what could be better and quietly make it so, keeping the highest standards for themselves. The art of this placement is knowing when good enough is the wiser choice.
Moon sign
Taurus or Gemini
Taurus until about 13:25, then Gemini (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 13:25: Moon in Taurus
A Taurus Moon feels through the body and its surroundings. On this reading, good food, familiar places and slow evenings are what restore Katie, and sudden change lands hard. Once they feel safe, they can be the steadiest person in the room.
Born after about 13:25: Moon in Gemini
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For Katie, talking, writing and switching perspective are likely ways to settle, and silence can make small worries loud. They probably need people who let them think out loud.
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 Kutaisi, Georgia, at each hour of the day.
Katie Melua’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Katie 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 September 1984, computed for Kutaisi, Georgia.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:55 | Gemini rising |
| 00:55 to 03:20 | Cancer rising |
| 03:20 to 05:55 | Leo rising |
| 05:55 to 08:30 | Virgo rising |
| 08:30 to 11:00 | Libra rising |
| 11:00 to 13:35 | Scorpio rising |
| 13:35 to 16:00 | Sagittarius rising |
| 16:00 to 17:55 | Capricorn rising |
| 17:55 to 19:20 | Aquarius rising |
| 19:20 to 20:25 | Pisces rising |
| 20:25 to 21:35 | Aries rising |
| 21:35 to 23:00 | Taurus rising |
| 23:00 to 24:00 | Gemini 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 16 September 1984, 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 | 23° Virgo 35' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Taurus until about 13:25, then Gemini |
| Mercury | 5° Virgo 59' |
| Venus | 18° Libra 30' |
| Mars | 17° Sagittarius 22' |
| Jupiter | 3° Capricorn 35' |
| Saturn | 12° Scorpio 54' |
| Uranus | 9° Sagittarius 53' |
| Neptune | 28° Sagittarius 39' |
| Pluto | 0° Scorpio 34' |
| North Node | 29° Taurus 37' |
| South Node | 29° Scorpio 37' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Katie Melua’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Katie Melua’s private life.
A Virgo Sun finds purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and Katie Melua's energy tends to stay steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. Rest is the hard part, because it can feel undeserved until everything is fixed. Typically a piece of work is still being adjusted long after everyone else would call it finished.
Moon in Taurus or Gemini
Taurus until about 13:25, then Gemini
needs and habits
Born before about 13:25: Moon in Taurus
A Taurus Moon needs routine, familiar food and physical comfort to feel steady from day to day. A sudden change of schedule probably unsettles Katie more than they let on. A good bed, a favourite mug or the same coffee order can turn an unsteady morning around.
Born after about 13:25: Moon in Gemini
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Katie is likely to settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. A day with no one to talk to can leave them restless. The habit is to message a friend the moment something comes to mind, before deciding what to think about it.
For Katie, Mercury in Virgo points to thinking that is precise and attentive to detail, and to clear communication, because the facts have usually been checked first. The catch is fixating on a small error and losing sight of the larger point. This is the placement that edits a message three times before sending something everyone else would have sent in one go.
Venus in Libra loves with an instinct for balance and partnership, and Katie probably values harmony, fairness and someone who makes an effort to look good together. The risk with this Venus is staying in a relationship for the sake of the pairing itself. Katie may give up a personal preference before anyone has even asked.
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. Katie 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 Capricorn
3° Capricorn 35' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Katie would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Katie letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Uranus in Sagittarius
9° Sagittarius 53' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Sagittarius is less about Katie 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.
Neptune in Sagittarius
28° Sagittarius 39' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Katie in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Scorpio
0° Scorpio 34' 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. Katie's own share may be an unusually deep comfort with intensity that others would find overwhelming.
Aspects in Katie Melua’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.
Venus sextile Mars
about 1.1° at midday
A sextile between Venus and Mars tends to let Katie Melua go after what they like without much inner conflict, because affection and drive are pulling the same way. It is a pleasant, workable confidence, at its most useful in the early stages of anything new.
Mercury trine Jupiter
about 2.4° at midday
Katie's thinking and sense of possibility reinforce each other, which gives them an easy, optimistic way of connecting ideas. Learning and explaining come naturally with Mercury trine Jupiter, and a good explanation of theirs tends to stay with people long after the conversation ends.
Jupiter sextile Pluto
about 3.0° at midday
Meaningful growth without constant upheaval is what Jupiter sextile Pluto describes, with Katie's sense of possibility and depth working in concert. The opportunities that matter tend to come at a manageable pace, not all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.
Mercury square Uranus
about 3.9° at midday
With Mercury square Uranus, the mind can jump so quickly that other people struggle to follow, or Katie may dismiss a slower approach that had merit. A good idea, paced, gives other people the chance to use it.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune
about 4.9° at midday
For Katie, 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 5.1° at midday
A Sun-Neptune square can blur Katie'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.
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 1.9°
- Sun square Marsabout 6.2°
- Mars conjunction Uranusabout 7.5°
Virgo Suns born within 2 years of Katie Melua
Also born on 16 September
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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