Umaru Musa Yar'Adua’s birth chart
Born 16 August 1951, in Katsina, Nigeria. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Leo Sun · Aquarius Moon
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was born on Thursday, 16 August 1951, in Katsina, Nigeria. The Sun was in Leo, so Leo was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Aquarius. Umaru died on 5 May 2010, aged 58. No verified birth time is on file for Umaru; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
By element the count is three fire, three air, two earth and two water. Cardinal signs hold five, fixed signs three and mutable signs two. The tightest aspect is Mars sextile Saturn, about 1.6° 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: Venus and Jupiter. Over the course of the day the Moon went from waxing gibbous to full.
StarMap's dataset holds 22 other people born on 16 August, among them Madonna, James Cameron and Charles Bukowski.
See the sky the day Umaru was born: the stars over Katsina, Nigeria, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Leo
about 22° Leo at midday
A Leo Sun shines. For Umaru Musa Yar'Adua that suggests warmth, generosity and a need to be seen for who they really are, running through much of what they do. This placement grows by learning that the light is not diminished when it is shared.
Moon sign
Aquarius
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Umaru is likely to understand an emotion better than they inhabit it, and to need space and ideas to process. For this Moon, friends are family and freedom is security.
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 Katsina, Nigeria, at each hour of the day.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Umaru 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 August 1951, computed for Katsina, Nigeria.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:30 | Taurus rising |
| 00:30 to 02:35 | Gemini rising |
| 02:35 to 04:45 | Cancer rising |
| 04:45 to 06:50 | Leo rising |
| 06:50 to 08:55 | Virgo rising |
| 08:55 to 10:55 | Libra rising |
| 10:55 to 13:05 | Scorpio rising |
| 13:05 to 15:15 | Sagittarius rising |
| 15:15 to 17:20 | Capricorn rising |
| 17:20 to 19:10 | Aquarius rising |
| 19:10 to 20:55 | Pisces rising |
| 20:55 to 22:35 | Aries rising |
| 22:35 to 24:00 | Taurus 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 August 1951, 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 | 22° Leo 46' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Aquarius |
| Mercury | 15° Virgo 05' |
| Venus | 18° Virgo 08'℞ |
| Mars | 28° Cancer 42' |
| Jupiter | 13° Aries 56'℞ |
| Saturn | 0° Libra 17' |
| Uranus | 12° Cancer 14' |
| Neptune | 17° Libra 21' |
| Pluto | 19° Leo 36' |
| North Node | 9° Pisces 51' |
| South Node | 9° Virgo 51' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Umaru Musa Yar'Adua’s private life.
Purpose for Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is probably tied to creating and being seen doing it, and a Leo Sun's vitality rises the moment there is an audience, even an audience of one. The tension is losing steam when no one is watching. The giveaway is often the extra effort that goes into something the moment someone notices them making it.
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Umaru is likely to need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The temptation is to analyse a feeling instead of simply having it. Even after a good day with people, this Moon needs time alone to recover.
For Umaru, 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.
With Venus in Virgo, Umaru is likely to love through small, practical acts of service and to value competence and reliability in a partner. People with this Venus tend to be hardest on those they love most, and can mistake giving notes for giving care. They may try to fix a partner's problem before simply listening to it.
Mars in Cancer acts to protect the people and things that matter, and its anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The habit to watch, for Umaru, may be going quiet or indirect instead of naming the upset. Other people tend to notice a shift of mood and take a while to trace it back to its cause.
Jupiter in Aries
13° Aries 56' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aries grows through bold, direct action and taking the first step before feeling fully ready. Umaru's overreach, on this reading, is starting more than can realistically be finished. A burst of confidence tends to get a new venture off the ground, whether or not the groundwork is in place.
For Umaru, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Cancer
12° Cancer 14' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Cancer belongs to an age group rather than to Umaru alone. Its mark is a generation that redefines home and family, departing from the structures the previous generation grew up inside. At the personal level it is read as a pull to build family life differently.
Neptune in Libra
17° Libra 21' at midday
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Umaru among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
Pluto in Leo
19° Leo 36' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Umaru, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Umaru Musa Yar'Adua’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.
Mars sextile Saturn
about 1.6° at midday
Sustained effort feels manageable, not draining, when Mars and Saturn are in sextile, and Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has that combination of drive and discipline. What results is quiet, dependable follow-through, the kind that gets a long project finished while flashier approaches give out halfway.
Jupiter square Uranus
about 1.7° at midday
An appetite for growth can turn erratic under Jupiter square Uranus, with sudden changes of direction that leave earlier plans unfinished. The instinct for change this square gives Umaru is a good one, and it does most when channelled into fewer, more deliberate moves that get to see the finish line.
Mercury sextile Uranus
about 2.9° at midday
Fresh angles on ordinary problems come easily to Umaru, 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.
Mercury conjunction Venus
about 3.0° at midday
Mercury conjunct Venus ties Umaru's thinking closely to what they love, so they probably talk about affection and beauty with ease. It lends a diplomatic, pleasant way of putting things, especially when the subject is close to the heart.
Sun conjunction Pluto
about 3.2° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Pluto, Umaru's identity is likely to be intense and transformative, with feelings that run at full volume rather than in moderation. Depth and staying power are the reward, and the thing to outgrow is needing a situation to become a crisis before it feels meaningful.
Jupiter opposition Neptune
about 3.4° at midday
The choice, as this opposition frames it for Umaru, is between pursuing a real opportunity and getting lost chasing an idealised version that does not quite exist. Testing an exciting idea against the plain facts protects the optimism; it does not undermine it.
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 2.2°
- Uranus square Neptuneabout 5.1°
- Sun sextile Neptuneabout 5.4°
- Jupiter trine Plutoabout 5.7°
Leo Sun and Aquarius Moon, like Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Also born on 16 August
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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