Michael Jordan's Birth Moon

Six-time NBA champion widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time.

17 February 1963

Last Quarter

42.8% illuminated

Basketball player

On 17 February 1963 the moon was 23 days in, at about the three-quarter point, showing 42.8% of its face. That month's full moon — traditionally called the Snow Moon — had passed 9 days earlier, on 8 February 1963.

The sky on 17 February 1963

Geocentric positions in the tropical zodiac, computed for midday UTC.

☉SunAquarius ♒

☽MoonSagittarius ♐

☿MercuryAquarius ♒

♀VenusCapricorn ♑

♂MarsLeo ♌℞

♃JupiterPisces ♓

♄SaturnAquarius ♒

♅UranusVirgo ♍℞

♆NeptuneScorpio ♏℞

Mars, Uranus and Neptune were retrograde that day — appearing, from Earth, to move backwards against the stars. It is an effect of the two planets' relative speeds rather than a change in direction, and astrologers read it as a period of review rather than progress.

Moon in Sagittarius ♐

The moon was passing through Sagittarius on 17 February 1963, while the sun sat in Aquarius — which is why Michael Jordan's star sign is Aquarius. The two rarely coincide: the sun takes a month to cross a sign and the moon takes about two and a half days.

Where the sun sign is read as the outward character, the moon sign is read as the emotional register underneath it — the part that needs room, movement, and the sense that an exit remains available.

Aspects that day

Aspects are the angles bodies form with each other. These were within orb on 17 February 1963:

Moon trine MarsMercury opposite MarsMars opposite Saturn

What a Last Quarter birth moon means

Traits of the Last Quarter

Last Quarter births are philosophical, transformative, and drawn to endings and beginnings. They understand instinctively that letting go is the path forward. Michael Jordan has shown this quality repeatedly — the ability to release what is no longer working and reinvent without losing their core.

How to read all this

Every figure on this page is calculated from Michael Jordan's date of birth — the phase, the illumination percentage, the positions and the aspects are astronomy, and they would be the same whoever was born that day. The character readings attached to them are symbolic tradition, not measurement, and are best treated as prompts for reflection rather than claims about a person.

Two things are deliberately missing. Without a birth time we cannot give a rising sign or house placements, since both change through the day — the ascendant shifts roughly every two hours. And without a birthplace there are no moonrise or moonset times, which depend on latitude. Anywhere you see those quoted for a public figure without a documented birth certificate time, treat them with caution.

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