# Sviatoslav Vakarchuk birth chart without a birth time

> Sviatoslav Vakarchuk's birth chart for May 14, 1975, Mukachevo: the birth time is unknown, rated X, cast for noon without houses; the Moon sign is unclear.

URL: https://kb.astroway.info/en/people/sviatoslav-vakarchuk

Birth data: 1975-05-14, unknown, Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine; Rodden rating X.

Sviatoslav Vakarchuk was born on May 14, 1975, in Mukachevo, his mother's home town, and spent his childhood and youth in Lviv. His father, Ivan Vakarchuk, was a physicist, rector of Lviv University and later Minister of Education. Sviatoslav also studied theoretical physics and defended a thesis on the supersymmetry of an electron in a magnetic field, but he is widely known as the singer and main songwriter of Okean Elzy. His birth time is unknown, so the chart is cast for noon. What stands out is Mercury in Gemini between Jupiter and Neptune, and the cardinal squares of Jupiter to Saturn and Venus to Pluto.

## What is known and what is not

The date and city are given by the LB.ua and Slovo i Dilo dossiers and by Wikidata. In 2018 Obozrevatel, retelling Ukrainska Pravda, wrote that right after his birth in May 1975 the baby was brought to a courtyard at 18 Dukhnovycha Street in Mukachevo, where he lived with his mother and grandmother. The maternity hospital is not known, so the coordinates are those of the centre of Mukachevo.

We found no hour of birth in interviews or in birthday coverage. Astro-Databank has no page and Astrotheme no profile. The chart therefore carries [Rodden rating](/en/methodology#rodden) X: time unknown. There are no other versions of the time.

The chart is cast for 12:00 Moscow Time (UTC+3), which the Ukrainian SSR kept in May 1975. The USSR had no daylight time before 1981. The chart has no houses, Ascendant or MC; see the section on [unknown birth times](/en/methodology#unknown-time).

The Moon's sign is not clear. Through the night and morning of May 14 the Moon was in Gemini, and at 11:07 local time it entered Cancer. The noon chart already shows it in Cancer, but a birth before 11:07 would put the Moon in Gemini. So this reading does not use the Moon's sign, degree or aspects.

## Sun in Taurus

The Sun is at 22°57′ Taurus. Tradition links Taurus with voice, body, taste and steadiness: a sign that needs time to get going and then rarely changes course. The Sun sextiles Mars at 24°44′ Pisces with an orb of 1°47′ at noon. A [sextile](/en/aspects/sextile) from the Sun to Mars is read as energy that is easy to turn into action, and Mars in Pisces adds dreaminess and sensitivity to mood.

The Sun's other link is tense: a sesquiquadrate to Pluto at 6°46′ Libra with an orb of 1°10′ at noon. Tradition associates this minor aspect with pressure that forces one to rebuild and look for a deeper footing.

## Mercury between Jupiter and Neptune

Mercury at 14°34′ Gemini is in its own sign. It sextiles Jupiter at 13°11′ Aries with an orb of 1°22′ at noon and opposes a retrograde Neptune at 10°54′ Sagittarius with an orb of 3°39′ at noon. Jupiter and Neptune are in trine to each other with an orb of 2°17′. So Jupiter is linked to both ends of the [opposition](/en/aspects/opposition) by harmonious aspects.

Astrologers connect Mercury in Gemini with curiosity, quick speech and a love of words. In the traditional reading the opposition to Neptune gives thought imagery and a dreamy streak, while Jupiter offers this tension an outlet through ideas and convictions.

The tightest aspect between planets in the noon chart also belongs to Mercury: a sesquiquadrate to Uranus at 29°29′ Libra with an orb of 0°04′. Mercury moves fast, so this orb holds for noon specifically. Another minor aspect of Mercury, a semisextile to Saturn, has an orb of 0°33′ at noon.

## Jupiter, Saturn and Venus in cardinal signs

Jupiter at 13°11′ Aries squares Saturn at 15°07′ Cancer with an orb of 1°55′. Venus at 5°05′ Cancer squares Pluto at 6°46′ Libra with an orb of 1°40′ at noon. All four planets sit in cardinal signs, which tradition associates with initiative and the urge to begin.

The [square](/en/aspects/square) of Jupiter to Saturn is read as a tension between the drive to expand and the need for limits and duties. Astrologers link the Venus-Pluto square with strong, deep feelings and creativity that is not afraid of dark themes. Uranus, on the last degree of Libra, also opposes Chiron at 25°42′ Aries with an orb of 3°47′.

## Events often compared with the chart

- October 12, 1994: the band takes the name Okean Elzy, with Sviatoslav as singer and main songwriter.
- September 30, 2007: elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense list.
- September 11, 2008: gives up his seat voluntarily.
- January 22, 2016: awarded the Order of Freedom.
- July 21, 2019: elected to the Verkhovna Rada a second time, heading the Holos list.
- June 11, 2020: announces that he has filed to give up his seat.
- September 20, 2024: Okean Elzy releases "Toi den", its first studio album in eight years.

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