Beyoncé and Jay-Z Synastry at a Glance
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s synastry has 30 contacts between the two charts, about the 31.1 average of two random people. Six are within half a degree, and the tightest is a square between their two Suns.
Beyoncé’s birth time is published; Jay-Z’s is not. So his side of the synastry is cast for noon, which keeps every planet contact but leaves out his Ascendant and houses.
She was born with the Sun at Virgo 12°28′ and an Aries Ascendant at 29°01′. His Sun is at Sagittarius 12°23′, and his Moon is in Libra whatever time he was born.
Reading a half-timed synastry
With one birth time, the planet-to-planet contacts are reliable, her Ascendant contacts are reliable, and anything that needs his Ascendant is missing. The page marks his Moon contacts approximate.
Sun Square Sun, 0.07° From Exact
Her Sun at Virgo 12°28′ and his at Sagittarius 12°23′ are 0.07° from an exact square. It is the tightest contact in their synastry.
What a Sun–Sun square is read as
The Sun is read as identity and direction. A square between two Suns is read as two strong wills that pull in different directions and have to make room for each other.
Virgo and Sagittarius
Virgo is read as precision and craft, Sagittarius as range and appetite for more. The square puts those two styles side by side.
How common it is
8.9% of random pairs have a Sun–Sun square. At 0.07°, this one is about as close as a synastry contact gets.
Her Jupiter on His Sun and Moon
Beyoncé’s Jupiter at Libra 12°29′ makes two contacts to Jay-Z’s chart. It sextiles his Sun within 0.10°, and it sits on his Libra Moon.
Jupiter sextile Sun
Jupiter contacts are read as encouragement and growth. The site’s synastry library reads this one as a friendly current in which Jupiter opens doors for the Sun. 13.2% of random pairs have it.
Jupiter conjunct Moon
At noon his Moon is at Libra 11°31′, 0.97° from her Jupiter. Because his birth time is unknown, the real distance is anywhere from 0° to about 7°; the Moon was in Libra all day, between 5° and 18°.
Why it still counts
Wherever his Moon was that day, it stayed within the synastry orb of her Jupiter. The contact is certain; only its exact tightness is not.
Neptune and Pluto on His Mercury and Mars
Four of their tightest contacts link her Neptune and Pluto to his Mercury and Mars. Her Neptune is at Sagittarius 22°05′ and her Pluto at Libra 22°41′; his Mercury is at Sagittarius 22°32′ and his Mars at Aquarius 21°54′.
Pluto to Mercury and Mars
Her Pluto sextiles his Mercury within 0.15° and trines his Mars within 0.78°. Pluto contacts are read as depth and persistence; with Mercury and Mars, that means thought and drive.
Base rates
14.1% of random pairs have a Pluto–Mercury sextile and 17.6% a Pluto–Mars trine.
Neptune to Mercury and Mars
Her Neptune sits on his Mercury within 0.44° and sextiles his Mars within 0.18°. Neptune contacts are read as imagination and idealism, the tone of a shared creative language.
Generational planets, personal points
Neptune and Pluto move slowly, so people born near 1981 share her placements. The personal part of this synastry is his Mercury and Mars landing exactly on them.
Venus and Mars: Two Trines
Their synastry has a Venus–Mars contact in each direction. Her Venus at Libra 20°48′ trines his Mars within 1.09°, and her Mars at Leo 1°56′ trines his Venus within 1.81°.
What Venus–Mars trines are read as
Venus–Mars contacts are the classic attraction contacts in synastry; a trine is read as attraction that flows easily. 16.5% of random pairs have a Venus–Mars trine in one direction or the other.
His Venus changed sign that morning
Jay-Z’s Venus moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius at about 09:35 on the day he was born. Before then it sat at the very end of Scorpio, which would make the contact to her Mars an out-of-sign trine.
The trine holds either way
Over the whole day the distance stays between 1.2° and 2.4° from a trine. The aspect is the same; only the sign label of his Venus depends on the time.
What Changes Without Jay-Z’s Birth Time
No birth time for Jay-Z has ever been published. A biography opens with 12:10 a.m., but that is the time a Brooklyn train ran two months before he was born.
What holds
His Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars move at most a degree or two in a day, so their contacts to her chart hold. So do her Ascendant contacts, such as her Ascendant opposite his Jupiter within 1.09°.
What is left out
His Ascendant, Midheaven and houses are not drawn, so there is no synastry to his angles. The composite and Davison charts lose their Ascendants too.
The Moon
His Moon is marked approximate: it moved about 13° that day, within Libra from start to finish.
The Composite Chart: A Libra Sun
Their composite Sun is at Libra 27°26′, with Venus at Scorpio 10°28′ and the Moon at Scorpio 4°08′, approximate. Without his birth time there is no composite Ascendant.
Libra and Scorpio
A Libra composite Sun is read as a relationship organised around partnership and balance; Venus and the Moon in Scorpio add depth and privacy.
The tightest composite aspects
Composite Jupiter squares Saturn within 0.78°, and Mercury opposes Mars within 0.99°. Composite Venus also opposes Mars, within 1.45°.
The Davison Chart: A Full Moon in October 1975
Their Davison chart is cast for 20 October 1975 at 21:53 UT, halfway in time between December 1969 and September 1981. The place is halfway between Houston and Brooklyn, near Cleveland, Tennessee.
A Full Moon
The Davison Sun is at Libra 26°53′ and the Moon at Taurus 4°36′, a Full Moon. A Full Moon in a relationship chart is read as a bond lived in plain view.
The same Sun as the composite
The Davison Sun is about half a degree from the composite Sun. The births are 11.8 years apart, twelve to the nearest year, an even number, so the two midpoint Suns agree.
Its tightest aspects
Davison Saturn squares Uranus within 0.05°, and Mercury sits on Pluto within 0.18°. Both are read as pressure and change built into the relationship’s own chart.
What Her Mother’s Time Would Change
Tina Knowles’s memoir gives 9:04 p.m., 43 minutes before the time on the certificate. Recasting Beyoncé’s chart for 21:04 shows how much of the synastry rests on that difference.
A different Ascendant
At 21:04 her Ascendant is at Aries 14°02′ instead of Aries 29°01′. The contact between her Ascendant and his Jupiter disappears, and her Ascendant trines his Sun within 1.64° instead.
The rest stays
Her Moon moves only from Scorpio 26°44′ to 26°23′, and the synastry still has 30 contacts. The Sun–Sun square and the two Venus–Mars trines do not depend on the time at all.
Why the certificate wins
A document made at the time of birth beats a memory written decades later, even a mother’s. The difference matters only for her Ascendant.
Where Their Birth Data Comes From
Beyoncé’s side of this synastry rests on a document she published herself; Jay-Z’s rests on his birth date alone.
Beyoncé: her own birth certificate
Her Cowboy Carter art book (2025) reproduces her Texas birth certificate, and the time on it, 9:47 p.m., was reported by the press when the book came out. The chart uses 21:47 Central Daylight Time.
Her mother’s memoir
Tina Knowles’s memoir Matriarch (2025) says 9:04 in the evening, 43 minutes earlier. This page uses the certificate.
Jay-Z: date and place only
Jay-Z was born on 4 December 1969 in Brooklyn. Times in astrology databases are rated C, source unknown, and are not used.
Married Since 2008
Beyoncé has said they began dating when she was nineteen, after a year and a half of friendship. They were engaged in December 2007 and married on 4 April 2008 in a private ceremony in New York.
What the synastry adds
Their synastry shows two charts with an exact Sun–Sun square, two Venus–Mars trines and her slow planets on his Mercury and Mars. It says nothing about the choices behind a long marriage.
To compare your own charts, use the synastry chart, the composite chart calculator or the Davison chart calculator.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Synastry FAQ
›What does Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s synastry show?
Thirty contacts between their charts, about the average for two random people. The tightest is a Sun–Sun square 0.07° from exact, followed by her Jupiter sextile his Sun within 0.10°.
›What is Beyoncé’s birth time?
9:47 p.m. on 4 September 1981 in Houston, from her birth certificate as reproduced in her Cowboy Carter art book (2025). Her mother’s memoir gives 9:04 p.m.; this page uses the certificate.
›What is Jay-Z’s birth time?
It has never been published. His chart here is cast for noon on 4 December 1969 in Brooklyn, without an Ascendant or houses, and his Moon is marked approximate.
›Do Beyoncé and Jay-Z have a Venus–Mars contact?
Yes, two trines: her Venus to his Mars within 1.09°, and her Mars to his Venus within 1.81°. The second holds whatever time he was born, even though his Venus changed sign that morning.
›What is their Davison chart?
The chart of 20 October 1975 at 21:53 UT, near Cleveland, Tennessee, halfway between Houston and Brooklyn. It falls on a Full Moon, with its Sun in Libra.
›Can I compare my chart with a partner’s the same way?
Yes. The synastry, composite and Davison calculators on this site are free and use the same engine as this page.
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