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Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali’s birth chart

Born February 16, 1974 in Oakland, birth time not public.

Aquarius Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Air · Fixed

Sun

Aquarius

27° Aquarius 43'

You see differently. Ideas ahead of their time, a wide circle of friends and a stubborn streak of independence define you. Your growth is letting people close without feeling caged.

Moon

Sagittarius

28° Sagittarius 23'

You feel best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter lift you, and being fenced in by other people's moods weighs you down. You need room, and someone who thinks that is fine.

Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.

Rising

Mahershala Ali’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.
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Placements

Sun 27° Aquarius 43'
Moon 28° Sagittarius 23'
Mercury 11° Pisces 45'
Venus 26° Capricorn 02'
Mars 24° Taurus 13'
Jupiter 25° Aquarius 19'
Saturn 27° Gemini 53'
Uranus 27° Libra 40'
Neptune 9° Sagittarius 27'
Pluto 6° Libra 25'
North Node 26° Sagittarius 49'
South Node 26° Gemini 49'

Mahershala Ali's full reading

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

  1. Sun in Aquarius

    27° Aquarius 43'

    purpose and vitality

    Their purpose is tied to being useful to a group or an idea bigger than themselves, and their vitality rises around causes and communities. The tension is detaching from their own needs while championing everyone else's. It shows up as being the reliable one at meetings and the hardest person to reach one on one.

  2. Moon in Sagittarius

    28° Sagittarius 23'

    needs and habits

    They need room to move and a bit of novelty in their routine to feel emotionally well. A schedule with no give in it makes they edgy faster than most people expect. It shows up as planning the next trip before the current one has even finished.

  3. Mercury in Pisces

    11° Pisces 45'

    mind and voice

    They think in images and impressions more than straight lines, and they communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. The tension is struggling to explain a conclusion they nonetheles feel certain about. It shows up as knowing something is off before they can say why.

  4. Venus in Capricorn

    26° Capricorn 02'

    love and values

    They love in a measured, committed way and value stability, ambition and someone they can build a life with. The tension is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. It shows up as showing love through providing and planning more easily than through saying it out loud.

  5. Mars in Taurus

    24° Taurus 13'

    drive and anger

    They act deliberately and stick with a course once they have chosen it, and their anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. The tension is digging in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It shows up as needing real provocation to snap, and staying rattled for a while after they do.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius

    25° Aquarius 19'

    growth and excess

    They grow through community, ideas and causes bigger than their own life. The overreach is so much faith in a theory or a group that they overlook its practical flaws. It shows up as an optimism about the future that makes they a natural organiser of other people's efforts.

  7. Saturn in Gemini

    27° Gemini 53'

    discipline and doubt

    They build discipline around expressing themselves clearly, often after early doubt about whether their ideas were good enough to say out loud. The doubt shows up as overpreparing before they will speak or write anything. It shows up as becoming, later in life, unusually precise and credible with words, once the early self-consciousness eases.

  8. Uranus in Libra

    27° Libra 40'

    freedom, generational

    Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who reshape ideas of partnership, fairness and relationship structure. Personally, it can show up as questioning traditional relationship roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius

    9° Sagittarius 27'

    imagination, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of grand belief systems and utopian journeys. Personally, it can show up as a hopeful faith that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.

  10. Pluto in Libra

    6° Libra 25'

    power, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that transforms ideas of partnership, justice and social contracts. Personally, it can show up as an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.

Aspects

How the planets in Mahershala Ali's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

  1. Sun trine Uranus

    0.1° separating

    Their sense of self and their need for freedom cooperate naturally, so being original feels easy rather than effortful. They tend to find spaces that let they be exactly who Mahershala is without much friction.

  2. Sun trine Saturn

    0.2° applying

    Their sense of self and their capacity for discipline reinforce each other, so effort and identity feel like the same project. They build things that last because their ambition and their patience are already in agreement.

  3. Saturn trine Uranus

    0.2° applying

    Their discipline and their independence support each other, letting they build lasting structures that still leave room for genuine change. Consistency and originality coexist for they with real ease, more comfortably than the usual trade-off between the two would suggest.

  4. Moon opposition Saturn

    0.5° separating

    They feel a pull between wanting emotional closeness and a wariness that keeps they guarded even with people who have earned their trust. Letting the guard down gradually, rather than all at once, tends to work better than either extreme.

  • Sun sextile Moon0.7°
  • Moon sextile Uranus0.7°
  • Mars square Jupiter1.1°
  • Venus square Uranus1.6°
  • Venus trine Mars1.8°
  • Mercury square Neptune2.3°
  • Jupiter trine Uranus2.3°
  • Sun conjunction Jupiter2.4°
  • Jupiter trine Saturn2.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto3.0°
  • Moon sextile Jupiter3.1°
  • Sun square Mars3.5°

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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

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