# The Weeknd birth chart with time of birth

> The Weeknd's birth chart for February 16, 1990, 2:45 p.m., Toronto: the time comes from his mother, rated A, with Cancer rising and five planets in Capricorn.

URL: https://kb.astroway.info/en/people/the-weeknd

Birth data: 1990-02-16, 14:45, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Rodden rating A.

The Weeknd, born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, was born on February 16, 1990, in Toronto. The birth time is known, and the chart has a clear centre: five planets in Capricorn, all in the 6th house. The Sun sits late in Aquarius in the 8th house, and Cancer rises together with the fixed star Pollux.

## What is known and what is not

The date is given by Wikidata, English Wikipedia, Astro-Databank and Astrotheme, and Elite Daily reported on February 16, 2022, that he turned 32 that day. The place has one wrinkle. He grew up in Scarborough, which in 1990 was a separate city within Metropolitan Toronto, and Wikidata lists both Toronto and Scarborough as his place of birth. No hospital is known, so the coordinates are those of central Toronto, as at Astro-Databank. Scarborough lies 15-20 km to the east: the Ascendant moves by a fraction of a degree and keeps its sign.

The time comes from his mother. On his birthday in 2022 he posted a screenshot of a text from a contact named "Mom": "February 16 @ 2:45 pm the Star is born". The post was later deleted, but a copy survives in the Wayback Machine, and Elite Daily quoted the text. Astro-Databank and Astrotheme give the same time from the same source, so they do not confirm it independently. It is his mother's statement, not a document, so the [Rodden rating](/en/methodology#rodden) is A. We found no other time with a source.

The chart is cast for 2:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5). Toronto was not on daylight time in February.

## Five planets in Capricorn

Venus at 22°17′ Capricorn, Mars at 13°12′ Capricorn, Saturn at 20°55′ Capricorn, Uranus at 8°17′ Capricorn and Neptune at 13°39′ Capricorn form a [stellium](/en/aspects/patterns/stellium), and all five are in the 6th house.

Two tight contacts sit inside the group. Mars and Neptune form a [conjunction](/en/aspects/conjunction) with an orb of 0°26′, one of the closest aspects in the chart. Venus and Saturn are conjunct with an orb of 1°21′, and Saturn in Capricorn is in its own sign.

Tradition links Capricorn with discipline, form and long work towards a result, and the 6th house with daily labour, craft and routine. Astrologers read a Mars-Neptune conjunction as action that starts from imagination, image and mood rather than from plain calculation. Venus next to Saturn, in the classical reading, brings reserve in feeling and a serious attitude to aesthetics.

Opposite the group, at 11°05′ Cancer in the 12th house, stands a retrograde Chiron. Mars is in [opposition](/en/aspects/opposition) to Chiron with an orb of 2°07′. Neptune opposes Chiron with an orb of 2°34′, and Uranus opposes Chiron with an orb of 2°47′.

## Moon and Pluto in Scorpio

The tightest major aspect in the chart joins the Moon at 17°25′ Scorpio and Pluto at 17°47′ Scorpio, a conjunction with an orb of 0°21′, both in the 5th house. In the modern scheme Pluto rules Scorpio, so the sign is doubly stressed here. Tradition ties this conjunction to deep, concentrated emotion on an all-or-nothing basis, and the 5th house to creativity, self-expression and romance.

Both bodies [square](/en/aspects/square) the North Node at 16°23′ Aquarius in the 8th house. The Moon squares the Node with an orb of 1°02′, and Pluto squares the Node with an orb of 1°23′. The Moon's link to the Capricorn group is softer: the Moon sextiles Saturn with an orb of 3°29′ and sextiles Neptune with an orb of 3°46′.

## Cancer rising and Pollux

The Ascendant is at 23°29′ Cancer, and [Pollux](/en/fixed-stars/pollux) lies 0°25′ from it. Ptolemy gives this star the nature of Mars, and on the Ascendant tradition reads it as directness, quick reactions and a readiness to step forward. A Cancer Ascendant, by contrast, is associated with sensitivity and a need for protected space.

The MC is at 3°42′ Aries, so the career axis opens in a fire sign whose ruler, Mars, sits in the Capricorn stellium. The Sun at 27°52′ Aquarius in the 8th house forms a [trine](/en/aspects/trine) to a retrograde Jupiter at 0°54′ Cancer in the 12th, orb 3°02′.

## Events often compared with the chart

- March 21, 2011: releases his debut mixtape House of Balloons as a free download.
- August 28, 2015: releases Beauty Behind the Madness, his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.
- February 15, 2016: wins his first Grammys, Best R&B Performance ("Earned It") and Best Urban Contemporary Album.
- March 20, 2020: releases After Hours, which debuts at No. 1 with 444,000 units.
- February 7, 2021: headlines the Super Bowl LV halftime show.
- February 16, 2022: on his 32nd birthday posts his mother's text with the birth time.
- January 31, 2025: releases Hurry Up Tomorrow, a week later than planned because of the Los Angeles wildfires.

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