Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez birth chart: unconfirmed birth time

Birth data

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born on October 13, 1989, in the Parkchester neighbourhood of the Bronx, New York. In 2018 she ran for office for the first time and became the youngest woman elected to Congress at that point. Her birth time is known only second-hand, so the chart is cast for noon. The features that stand out are two stelliums: personal planets in Libra and slow planets in Capricorn.

What is known and what is not

The date and Bronx County are given by the 2022 Congressional Directory, the Parkchester neighbourhood by the official biography on her House office website, and Wikidata agrees. No hospital is named in open sources, so the coordinates are those of Parkchester.

The 11:50 time has this history. In January 2019 an astrologer asked her congressional office for it, first by phone and then by email, and a staffer replied by email. On January 14, 2019, the time appeared in the astrologer's tweet thanking "@AOC and your staff"; the tweet was later deleted, and its text survives in an embed on a Nylon magazine page. Astro-Databank holds the staffer's email on file, labels the data "from memory" and rates it A. Astrotheme repeats 11:50.

There are no words from Ocasio-Cortez or her family about the time, and no document. A single time of unknown origin passed on through an office gives, under our method, Rodden rating C, so we do not use it for the main chart. The 11:50 version is listed above. It gives an Ascendant in the middle of Sagittarius, and the Ascendant stays in Sagittarius from about 10:33 to 12:55, so a small rounding of the time does not change the sign.

The chart is cast for 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC-4): in 1989 New York kept daylight time until October 29. It has no houses, Ascendant or MC, and we give neither the Moon's degree nor its aspects. The Moon's sign depends on the hour: until about 06:42 local time the Moon was in Pisces, after that it moved into Aries. In the 11:50 version the Moon is in Aries. How we handle charts without a time is explained in the methodology.

A stellium in Libra

Mercury at 2°54′ Libra, Mars at 15°41′ Libra and the Sun at 20°17′ Libra form a stellium. The Sun is conjunct Mars with an orb of 4°36′. Tradition links Libra with fairness, the balance of two sides and acting together with others. The classical scheme counts Mars in Libra as in its detriment: its force works through agreement and persuasion rather than direct pressure.

Tension comes from Chiron at 16°27′ Cancer. In the noon chart Mars is square Chiron with an orb of 0°46′, and the Sun squares Chiron with an orb of 3°49′. Mercury squares Uranus with an orb of 1°05′. Astrologers link the cardinal signs, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn, with initiative and the urge to start things.

A stellium in Capricorn

Uranus at 1°48′ Capricorn, Saturn at 8°08′ Capricorn and Neptune at 9°44′ Capricorn form the second stellium. Saturn is conjunct Neptune with an orb of 1°35′. Saturn in Capricorn is in its own sign, and tradition reads it there as patience, structure and long work. Neptune beside it adds an ideal.

Opposite, in Cancer, stands Jupiter at 10°29′ Cancer. Jupiter is in opposition to Neptune with an orb of 0°44′ and in opposition to Saturn with an orb of 2°20′. These planets are slow, so the Jupiter-Neptune opposition holds for the whole day. The classical scheme counts Jupiter exalted in Cancer, and tradition links the Cancer-Capricorn axis with home, roots and public institutions.

Sun, Venus and Uranus

The Sun is semisquare Venus at 5°35′ Sagittarius with an orb of 0°17′. The Sun is quintile Uranus with an orb of 0°28′. Both orbs are given for the noon chart. Astrologers associate the quintile with talent and a personal style, here with an unexpected, inventive approach. Mercury sextiles Venus with an orb of 2°41′, and Venus is biquintile Jupiter with an orb of 1°05′.

Events often compared with the chart

• June 26, 2018: in her first campaign, wins the Democratic primary in NY-14 against Joe Crowley, a ten-term incumbent.
• November 6, 2018: elected to the House of Representatives, at that point the youngest woman elected to Congress.
• January 3, 2019: sworn in with the 116th Congress.
• January 14, 2019: an astrologer posts the 11:50 time received from her office.
• February 7, 2019: releases the Green New Deal resolution outline.
• November 5, 2024: re-elected for a fourth term.
• November 3, 2026: wins the election for a fifth term.

These dates are starting points for your own work with transits. We do not make predictions about the health, court cases or future careers of living people.

Planet positions

Calculation: Swiss Ephemeris core-2026.11.07.

Aspects

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Aspect patterns and fixed stars

Patterns are found from the aspects in the table above, stars by a conjunction within 1°.

• Stellium: Sun, Mercury and Mars in Libra
• Stellium: Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn

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