The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G. (born Christopher George Latore Wallace; May 21, 1972, Brooklyn, United States; died 1997), was an American rapper. Best-known releases include Ready to Die, Life After Death and Born Again. B.I.G.'s honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Notorious B.I.G.’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rat, with 
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The Notorious B.I.G.’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
The’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
The, according to the stars
Core essence
The is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. The needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, The is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What The needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How The wants to be loved
The wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. The gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How The creates
How The makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. The creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: The is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. The is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means The does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from The's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where The sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 21, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
The Notorious B.I.G. was born on May 21, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s birth date, May 21, 1972, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in The’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in The Notorious B.I.G.'s date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- The Notorious B.I.G. combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
The’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for The Notorious B.I.G., so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSuntrinePluto0.8° to 1.8° orb
The’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.0° to 1.8° orb
The’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.4° to 1.9° orb
The’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb
The’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.9° to 3.2° orb
The’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune4.6° to 4.8° orb
The’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
The’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquarePluto4.7° to 4.9° orb
The’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.8° to 6.0° orb
The’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssquarePluto6.1° to 6.8° orb
The’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 4.2° to 16.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
The’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 15°55′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: The may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 19°42′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. The is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosPisces 2°23′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. The is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 4°38′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has The carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 9°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. The is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Eros square Neptune 1.6°
- Eros square Sun 1.7°
- Eros trine Venus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
The’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: The is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in The’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for The Notorious B.I.G., so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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The’s cards
Every card is computed from May 21, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for The Notorious B.I.G., so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
The’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179157, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same The Notorious B.I.G. at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Notorious B.I.G..
Quick answers about The Notorious B.I.G.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was The Notorious B.I.G.?
- The Notorious B.I.G. was a Gemini: born May 21, 1972, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
- What was The Notorious B.I.G.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 21, 1972 birth.
- What time was The Notorious B.I.G. born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 21, 1972 birth date.
- What was The Notorious B.I.G.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 21, 1972 birth date.
- Where was The Notorious B.I.G.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was The Notorious B.I.G.'s dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Pluto). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
