The Notorious B.I.G.'s Birth Chart: Gemini Sun, Virgo Moon, Pisces Rising

Mercury in Taurus thinks slowly and concretely, and rarely changes its mind twice.

Mercury in the 2nd house applies the mind to earning, pricing and what is worth keeping.

The Sun in Gemini builds identity through curiosity, conversation and variety.

The Sun in the 3rd house finds identity in communication, learning and the local world.

Saturn in Gemini learns slowly and thoroughly, and doubts its own mind.

Saturn in the 3rd house makes speech careful, learning slow and thinking exact.

Venus in Cancer loves protectively, and shows it by taking care of people.

Venus in the 4th house makes home a place of beauty, comfort and welcome.

Mars in Cancer acts to protect, and expresses anger indirectly.

Mars in the 4th house fights for home, works on it, and loses its temper there.

The Moon in Virgo settles through order, usefulness and being needed.

The Moon in the 7th house finds emotional footing through close partnership.

Pluto in Virgo takes apart work, health and the systems behind daily life.

Pluto in the 7th house makes partnership intense, transformative and about power.

Uranus in Libra rewrites the terms of partnership, marriage and fairness.

Uranus in the 7th house wants partnership that leaves both people free.

Neptune in Sagittarius pours longing into belief, travel and the search itself.

Neptune in the 9th house finds meaning through faith and feeling rather than argument.

Jupiter in Capricorn grows slowly, and trusts only what it can prove.

Jupiter in the 10th house builds a wide public reputation, and is tempted to overreach.

Mind and feeling in easy agreement, fluent and articulate, and rarely pushed past the conversational.

Power and identity in easy agreement, giving quiet authority and insight that is seldom examined.

Desire and pursuit fused, frankly attractive and quick to act, with discrimination the missing step.

Drive in tension with expansion, overcommitting to causes until proportion is finally learned.

Pleasure in tension with excess, overspending on money and affection until worth is properly judged.

Identity in tension with illusion, producing misreadings that eventually teach hard discernment.

Reality in tension with the ideal, dismantling illusions that easier charts are allowed to keep.

Affection in conflict with power, compulsive and jealous, returning until the motives are examined.

Need in conflict with restriction, producing early withdrawal and, over time, hard-built emotional strength.

Order and innovation in easy agreement, modernizing carefully and stopping short of structural change.

A Pisces Ascendant meets the world softly, taking on the mood of the room.

A Sagittarius Midheaven seeks work with scope, meaning and room to move.