Missy Elliott’s birth chart
Born 1 July 1971, in Portsmouth, Virginia. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Cancer Sun · Libra Moon
Missy Elliott’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Missy Elliott was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, on 1 July 1971, a Thursday. Their zodiac sign is Cancer, with the Moon in Libra. Missy turns 55 in 2026. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Air carries the most weight: five of the ten planets, against water three, fire one and earth one. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, two and four. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Jupiter and Pluto: a sextile, 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: Jupiter and Neptune. Over the course of the day the Moon went from first quarter to waxing gibbous.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 1 July, among them Agnez Mo, Pamela Anderson and Olivia de Havilland.
See the sky the day Missy was born: the stars over Portsmouth, Virginia, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Missy Elliott’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Cancer
about 9° Cancer at midday
A Cancer Sun protects. For Missy Elliott, home, memory and the people they have decided are theirs tend to sit at the centre of things, and they probably read a room before anyone speaks. Care is the strength of this Sun, and their task is to include themselves in it.
Moon sign
Libra
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Missy, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.
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 Portsmouth, Virginia, at each hour of the day.
Missy Elliott’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Missy 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 1 July 1971, computed for Portsmouth, Virginia.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:30 | Pisces rising |
| 00:30 to 01:50 | Aries rising |
| 01:50 to 03:20 | Taurus rising |
| 03:20 to 05:15 | Gemini rising |
| 05:15 to 07:35 | Cancer rising |
| 07:35 to 10:05 | Leo rising |
| 10:05 to 12:30 | Virgo rising |
| 12:30 to 14:55 | Libra rising |
| 14:55 to 17:25 | Scorpio rising |
| 17:25 to 19:45 | Sagittarius rising |
| 19:45 to 21:40 | Capricorn rising |
| 21:40 to 23:10 | Aquarius rising |
| 23:10 to 24:00 | Pisces 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 1 July 1971, 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 | 9° Cancer 10' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Libra |
| Mercury | 21° Cancer 02' |
| Venus | 23° Gemini 35' |
| Mars | 21° Aquarius 22' |
| Jupiter | 27° Scorpio 23'℞ |
| Saturn | 1° Gemini 30' |
| Uranus | 9° Libra 31' |
| Neptune | 0° Sagittarius 44'℞ |
| Pluto | 27° Virgo 08' |
| North Node | 15° Aquarius 09' |
| South Node | 15° Leo 09' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Missy Elliott’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Missy Elliott’s private life.
With the Sun in Cancer, Missy Elliott is likely to feel most alive when caring for people and places that matter to them, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. Feeling unneeded is the sore spot for this placement, and it can be taken personally. The whole day may go better after checking in on someone they love.
A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Missy's whole afternoon. Comfort comes from pleasant company and pleasant spaces. The habit to watch is smoothing things over before they have worked out what they want.
Mercury in Cancer thinks in terms of memory and feeling as much as logic, and Missy probably communicates best when there is emotional trust in the room. Mood can colour how a fact gets delivered or received. Years after the details have faded, this is a mind that remembers exactly how a conversation felt.
Venus in Gemini loves through conversation, wit and mental connection, and tends to find a dull partner harder to stay with than a challenging one. Missy probably values variety and being kept interested. Attention may wander with this Venus, and that can be treated as more serious than it is. Banter is the natural way to flirt here, more than anything more direct.
Mars in Aquarius acts on principle, and its anger surfaces most over unfairness or hypocrisy rather than personal slights. Missy can detach from a conflict so thoroughly that the other person feels shut out. The issue tends to get argued with heat while the relationship itself is treated with strange calm.
Jupiter in Scorpio
27° Scorpio 23' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Missy, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Missy that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
Uranus in Libra
9° Libra 31' at midday
freedom, generational
Missy holds Uranus in Libra in common with many people born in the same stretch of years. Together that generation reshapes ideas of partnership, fairness and how relationships are arranged. Its personal side is a readiness to question traditional roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.
Neptune in Sagittarius
0° Sagittarius 44' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Missy in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Virgo
27° Virgo 08' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Virgo is shared by Missy and many people born in the same span of years. That generation lives through deep change in work, in how services are organised, and in daily life itself. In one person that can be intensity around control, order and how much any one system can carry.
Aspects in Missy Elliott’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.
Jupiter sextile Pluto
about 0.3° at midday
Meaningful growth without constant upheaval is what Jupiter sextile Pluto describes, with Missy Elliott'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.
Sun square Uranus
about 0.4° at midday
When the Sun is square Uranus, Missy's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.
Saturn opposition Neptune
about 0.8° at midday
Grounded, practical planning sits opposite a tendency towards doubt, or disillusionment about whether the effort is worth it, and Missy is likely to know both. Checking in with the original inspiration, and not only with the workload, tends to restore the balance.
Venus trine Mars
about 2.2° at midday
Missy 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.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune
about 3.3° at midday
For Missy, 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.
Venus square Pluto
about 3.5° at midday
Where Venus squares Pluto, the desire for closeness can get tangled with control, and the aspect is associated with jealousy, possessiveness or testing a partner's loyalty. Whenever Missy chooses trust over control, that intensity becomes a strength instead of a strain.
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 3.6°
- Jupiter opposition Saturnabout 4.1°
- Saturn trine Plutoabout 4.4°
- Mars square Jupiterabout 6.0°
Cancer Sun and Libra Moon, like Missy Elliott
Also born on 1 July
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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