Lin-Manuel Miranda’s birth chart
Born 16 January 1980, in Manhattan, New York. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Capricorn Sun · Capricorn Moon
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Lin-Manuel Miranda was born on Wednesday, 16 January 1980, in Manhattan, New York. Their zodiac sign is Capricorn, with the Moon in Capricorn. Lin-Manuel turns 46 in 2026. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Of the ten planets, six are in earth signs, two in water, one in fire and one in air. By modality the count is five mutable, four cardinal and one fixed. Three planets stand together in Capricorn: Sun, Moon and Mercury. Three planets stand together in Virgo: Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The tightest aspect is Neptune sextile Pluto, about 0.3° 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 all day: Jupiter and Saturn. Mars changed direction that day, turning retrograde, so whether it was retrograde at the birth depends on the hour. Over the course of the day the Moon went from waning crescent to new.
StarMap's dataset holds 15 other people born on 16 January, among them Susan Sontag, Jennie and Aaliyah. Seydou Keita was born on the very same day.
See the sky the day Lin-Manuel was born: the stars over Manhattan, New York, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
about 25° Capricorn at midday
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Lin-Manuel Miranda up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Capricorn
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Capricorn Moon feels responsibly. With it, Lin-Manuel may hold themselves together for other people, and can be hard on themselves when they cannot. This Moon tends to be restored by accomplishment, by structure, and by the rare person allowed to see them tired.
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 Manhattan, New York, at each hour of the day.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Lin-Manuel 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 January 1980, computed for Manhattan, New York.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:50 | Libra rising |
| 00:50 to 03:20 | Scorpio rising |
| 03:20 to 05:45 | Sagittarius rising |
| 05:45 to 07:40 | Capricorn rising |
| 07:40 to 09:05 | Aquarius rising |
| 09:05 to 10:15 | Pisces rising |
| 10:15 to 11:25 | Aries rising |
| 11:25 to 12:55 | Taurus rising |
| 12:55 to 14:45 | Gemini rising |
| 14:45 to 17:10 | Cancer rising |
| 17:10 to 19:40 | Leo rising |
| 19:40 to 22:15 | Virgo rising |
| 22:15 to 24:00 | Libra 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 January 1980, 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 | 25° Capricorn 43' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Capricorn |
| Mercury | 22° Capricorn 44' |
| Venus | 0° Pisces 40' |
| Mars | 15° Virgo 20'turned retrograde that day |
| Jupiter | 9° Virgo 32'℞ |
| Saturn | 26° Virgo 55'℞ |
| Uranus | 24° Scorpio 43' |
| Neptune | 21° Sagittarius 27' |
| Pluto | 21° Libra 45' |
| North Node | 29° Leo 38' |
| South Node | 29° Aquarius 38' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Lin-Manuel Miranda is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
With the Moon in Capricorn, Lin-Manuel's comfort probably comes from accomplishing something concrete each day, and an unproductive day can leave them oddly unsettled even on holiday. Harder feelings tend to be kept for when they are alone. Before rest is allowed there is usually one more thing to tidy, organise or finish.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Lin-Manuel tends to communicate in a measured, practical way that people trust. The focus on a useful conclusion can be so strong that ideas which have not yet proven their worth are dismissed. Lin-Manuel will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Venus in Pisces loves without much guard, and Lin-Manuel probably values emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The temptation can be to idealise a partner before really seeing them. Generosity in relationships comes easily here, and so does missing the moment when giving starts to outweigh getting.
Mars in Virgo acts carefully and precisely, preferring to get a task right over getting it done fast, and its anger usually comes from things being done sloppily. When upset, Lin-Manuel is more likely to criticise than to confront. A clipped tone often signals frustration well before anything is said directly.
Jupiter in Virgo
9° Virgo 32' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Virgo finds its growth in mastering a craft in unglamorous detail, one small correction at a time. For Lin-Manuel, perfectionism may be the excess, turning growth into an endless list of corrections. People with this Jupiter are often trusted with more responsibility than they feel they deserve, usually because the care in the work shows.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Lin-Manuel may feel like a fraud even when the track record says otherwise. The usual result is someone quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.
Uranus in Scorpio
24° Scorpio 43' at midday
freedom, generational
Much of Lin-Manuel's age group has Uranus in Scorpio. It changes attitudes to power, secrecy and what is held in common, often while living through upheavals in institutions once considered permanent. In an individual it tends to be a low tolerance for hidden agendas.
Neptune in Sagittarius
21° Sagittarius 27' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Lin-Manuel in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Libra
21° Libra 45' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Lin-Manuel belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
Aspects in Lin-Manuel Miranda’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.
Mercury square Pluto
about 1.0° at midday
A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as Lin-Manuel Miranda looks for motives that may not be there. The lesson is trusting a straightforward answer when the evidence supports one, rather than assuming the deeper explanation is always the true one.
Sun sextile Uranus
about 1.0° at midday
There is room for Lin-Manuel to be a little unconventional without losing much by it, since identity and originality get along well here. Other people tend to find this easy, unforced independence refreshing rather than alarming.
Sun trine Saturn
about 1.2° at midday
Effort and identity feel like the same project under a Sun-Saturn trine, because Lin-Manuel's sense of self and capacity for discipline reinforce each other. What they build tends to last, since ambition and patience are already in agreement.
Mercury sextile Uranus
about 2.0° at midday
Fresh angles on ordinary problems come easily to Lin-Manuel, because thinking and originality are friends here. Inventiveness takes little effort with this aspect, and it makes routine problems more interesting than they first appear.
Saturn sextile Uranus
about 2.2° at midday
Discipline and independence combine in this sextile to give Lin-Manuel a workable way of keeping a routine while leaving room to change it. The flexibility is quiet and sustainable, and it keeps a good habit from calcifying into an unquestioned rule.
Sun conjunction Mercury
about 3.0° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Lin-Manuel'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.
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 0.3°
- Sun square Plutoabout 4.0°
- Mercury trine Saturnabout 4.2°
- Saturn square Neptuneabout 5.5°
- Mars conjunction Jupiterabout 5.8°
- Venus square Uranusabout 6.0°
- Mars square Neptuneabout 6.1°
Capricorn Sun and Capricorn Moon, like Lin-Manuel Miranda
Also born on 16 January
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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