Nelly Furtado’s birth chart
Born 2 December 1978, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Sagittarius Sun · Capricorn Moon
Nelly Furtado’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
2 December 1978 was a Saturday: the day Nelly Furtado was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Their zodiac sign is Sagittarius, with the Moon in Capricorn. Nelly turns 48 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Nelly, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Of the ten planets, five are in fire signs, two in earth, two in water and one in air. Mutable signs hold five, fixed signs three and cardinal signs two. Sagittarius holds a stellium, four planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mercury and Neptune: a conjunction, about 0.3° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Mercury and Jupiter were retrograde. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 2 December, among them Britney Spears, Maria Callas and Lucy Liu. Wikidata links Nelly with two people in the dataset: Justin Timberlake (listed as partners in Wikidata) and Timbaland (listed as partners in Wikidata).
See the sky the day Nelly was born: the stars over Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Nelly Furtado’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
about 10° Sagittarius at midday
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Nelly Furtado 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
Capricorn
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Capricorn Moon feels responsibly. With it, Nelly 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 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, at each hour of the day.
Nelly Furtado’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Nelly 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 2 December 1978, computed for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:30 | Virgo rising |
| 01:30 to 04:15 | Libra rising |
| 04:15 to 07:00 | Scorpio rising |
| 07:00 to 09:25 | Sagittarius rising |
| 09:25 to 11:15 | Capricorn rising |
| 11:15 to 12:30 | Aquarius rising |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | Pisces rising |
| 13:30 to 14:25 | Aries rising |
| 14:25 to 15:40 | Taurus rising |
| 15:40 to 17:30 | Gemini rising |
| 17:30 to 20:00 | Cancer rising |
| 20:00 to 22:40 | Leo rising |
| 22:40 to 24:00 | Virgo 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 2 December 1978, 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 | 10° Sagittarius 17' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Capricorn |
| Mercury | 17° Sagittarius 25'℞ |
| Venus | 7° Scorpio 41' |
| Mars | 22° Sagittarius 33' |
| Jupiter | 8° Leo 58'℞ |
| Saturn | 13° Virgo 29' |
| Uranus | 18° Scorpio 09' |
| Neptune | 17° Sagittarius 44' |
| Pluto | 18° Libra 30' |
| North Node | 23° Virgo 18' |
| South Node | 23° Pisces 18' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Nelly Furtado’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Nelly Furtado’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Nelly Furtado'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.
With the Moon in Capricorn, Nelly'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.
Nelly'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.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Nelly is likely to value depth and total honesty over ease. Testing loyalty can create the very distance this placement fears most. There is an all-or-nothing quality to how this Venus commits, with little interest in anything in between.
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. Nelly 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 Leo
8° Leo 58' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Nelly the overreach may be overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. There is a natural showmanship here that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Nelly 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
18° Scorpio 09' at midday
freedom, generational
Much of Nelly'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
17° 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 Nelly in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Libra
18° Libra 30' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Nelly 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 Nelly Furtado’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 conjunction Neptune
about 0.3° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Neptune, Nelly Furtado's thinking is likely to be imaginative and impressionistic, working through images and instinct as much as straight logic. It is a creative and intuitive strength, at its best when a compelling idea has been held up against the facts before being embraced.
Mercury sextile Pluto
about 1.1° at midday
Nelly's thinking can reach their depth when it needs to, which gives them insight without unnecessary intensity. With this aspect they are likely to notice what others miss, which makes them a useful person to have in a hard conversation.
Venus square Jupiter
about 1.3° at midday
Under this square, Nelly's generosity can run past what is sustainable, whether in time, affection or promises made in a warm moment. The warmth is sincere; the work is matching it to a scale that can be kept up over the months that follow the excitement, not only the first one.
Sun trine Jupiter
about 1.3° at midday
With the Sun trine Jupiter, Nelly's sense of self and instinct for growth support each other, which gives them a warm, expansive confidence. They are likely to be quick to see an opening and to make the most of it without forcing anything.
Sun square Saturn
about 3.2° at midday
With the Sun square Saturn, confidence meets resistance, often in the form of self-doubt or an authority figure whose approval feels hard to win. When Nelly pushes through it anyway, the achievement means more because it was tested.
Mercury square Saturn
about 3.9° at midday
Self-doubt can get into thinking when Mercury is square Saturn, in the form of over-editing or delaying a decision that was ready. Sharing the unfinished thought anyway, again and again, is what loosens the doubt's hold over what Nelly is willing to say out loud.
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 0.8°
- Mars sextile Plutoabout 4.1°
- Saturn square Neptuneabout 4.2°
- Saturn sextile Uranusabout 4.7°
- Mars conjunction Neptuneabout 4.8°
- Mercury conjunction Marsabout 5.1°
- Sun conjunction Mercuryabout 7.1°
- Sun conjunction Neptuneabout 7.5°
Nelly Furtado in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Sagittarius Sun and Capricorn Moon, like Nelly Furtado
Also born on 2 December
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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