# IU birth chart without a birth time > IU's birth chart for May 16, 1993, Seoul: the birth time has never been published, rated X, so the chart is cast for noon without houses or Ascendant. URL: https://kb.astroway.info/en/people/iu Birth data: 1993-05-16, unknown, Songjeong-dong, Seongdong District, Seoul, South Korea; Rodden rating X. IU, born Lee Ji-eun, was born on May 16, 1993, in Seoul. Her stage name stands for "I and You", music that brings people together. She debuted as a singer in 2008 at 15 and has since played lead roles in TV dramas. No birth time has been published, so the chart is cast for noon. Its most visible features are the Sun and Mercury side by side in Taurus near the star Algol, and Venus, Mars and the North Node joined by trines in the three fire signs. ## What is known and what is not Wikidata and the Marie Claire Korea profile give May 16, 1993, and TenAsia reported her 31st birthday in May 2024, which also points to 1993. Every source names Seoul, but the district differs. English Wikipedia, citing her own words on an MBC radio show, says Songjeong-dong, Seoul (the neighbourhood is in Seongdong District). Marie Claire Korea says Gwangjin District. The districts border each other, under 2 km apart, which changes nothing in a noon chart. The hospital is not known, so the coordinates are those of Songjeong-dong. Neither IU nor her family nor any collector has given a birth time. Astro-Databank has no page for her, Astrotheme marks the time unknown, and the Korean press has no quote with an hour of birth. The chart therefore carries [Rodden rating](/en/methodology#rodden) X: a date without a time. The chart is cast for 12:00 Korea Standard Time (UTC+9); Korea kept no daylight time in 1993. It has no houses, Ascendant or MC, and the Moon's degree and aspects are left out (see the section on [charts without a time](/en/methodology#unknown-time)). The Moon's sign is certain: it stayed in Pisces for the whole of May 16 and entered Aries only at about 00:25 on May 17. ## Sun and Mercury in Taurus In the noon chart the Sun at 25°15′ Taurus and Mercury at 25°16′ Taurus form a [conjunction](/en/aspects/conjunction) with an orb of 0°00′, the tightest aspect in the chart. The exactness belongs to noon: Mercury moves faster than the Sun. Tradition links Taurus, Venus's sign, with patience and the senses. Mercury beside the Sun is read as thinking that runs with the will, and in Taurus as unhurried speech with words chosen for their weight. Both bodies also stand near the star [Algol](/en/fixed-stars/algol) in Perseus: at noon the Sun is 0°48′ from it, and Mercury is 0°48′ from it too. Modern astrologers read Algol, a star with a heavy name in the old texts, as intensity that needs a form. ## Opposition to Pluto and trines to Capricorn The Sun's [opposition](/en/aspects/opposition) to Pluto at 24°06′ Scorpio has an orb of 1°09′, and in the noon chart Mercury's opposition to Pluto has the same orb of 1°09′. The Taurus-Scorpio axis is read as the pull between what is one's own and what is shared, and Pluto opposite the Sun as pressure that makes a person rebuild themselves more than once. The other side of the chart is softer. The Sun's trine to Uranus at 22°01′ Capricorn has an orb of 3°13′, and the Sun's trine to Neptune at 21°00′ Capricorn has an orb of 4°15′. Uranus and Neptune are conjunct with an orb of 1°01′, a meeting shared by everyone born in those years; personal here is how the Taurus Sun plugs into it. Earth trines are read as a practical channel for sudden ideas and imagination. ## Venus, Mars and the Node in the fire signs Venus at 12°38′ Aries forms a [trine](/en/aspects/trine) to the North Node at 12°18′ Sagittarius with an orb of 0°19′ in the noon chart. Mars at 9°01′ Leo trines the Node with an orb of 3°17′ and trines Venus with an orb of 3°37′. So Venus, Mars and the Node take one fire sign each and are linked by trines. Venus in Aries is in its detriment in the classical scheme: feelings show quickly and directly. Mars in Leo is read as warmth, pride and a taste for the stage. Mars is also [quintile](/en/aspects/quintile) the Sun, orb 1°45′, an angle that modern astrology ties to talent and a personal style. ## Events often compared with the chart - September 18, 2008: first stage as a professional singer, performing "Lost Child" on Mnet's M Countdown at 15. - December 9, 2010: releases "Good Day", lead single of the EP "Real"; Billboard later named it the best K-pop song of the 2010s. - December 2, 2017: her fourth studio album "Palette" wins Album of the Year at the Melon Music Awards. - March 21, 2018: the tvN drama "My Mister" premieres, with IU in the lead role of Lee Ji-an. - September 17, 2022: opens two nights of "The Golden Hour" at Seoul's Olympic Main Stadium, the first Korean female soloist to headline it. - March 7, 2025: Netflix premieres "When Life Gives You Tangerines", with IU and Park Bo-gum in the leads. These dates are given as starting points for your own work with transits. 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