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, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with The
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.
What The’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Christopher George Latore Wallace, not the name they published under.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on C (3) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
The’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets The apart
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came in 2020, when The Notorious B.I.G. was 48.
Study took The Notorious B.I.G. to George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School and Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School.
The Notorious B.I.G. was 20 when the work began in 1992.
The record gives gunshot wound as the cause, and Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium as the resting place.
The family line: born to Voletta Wallace, married Faith Evans and raised 2 children.
Andrei Sakharov (1921) and Lisa Edelstein (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School and Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2020)
- Working from
- 1992
- Cause of death
- gunshot wound
- Buried at
- Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium
- Wikipedia editions
- 71
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. Working below.
Where The sits
Six lines
The’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to The Notorious B.I.G.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 10.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 69% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 8° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Christopher George Latore Wallace
- Known as
- The Notorious B.I.G.
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1997.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for The Notorious B.I.G.: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual The's chart is
Chart pattern score
17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.8° to 6.0° orb
stableMarssquarePluto6.1° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 15°55′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 19°42′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 2°23′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 4°38′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 9°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
The’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in The’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
The’s cards
Computed from May 21, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
The’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179157 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was The Notorious B.I.G.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
