Drake

Before he was Drake, Aubrey Graham was Jimmy Brooks, a high school basketball star who is shot by a classmate and left using a wheelchair on the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation. He played the role from 2001 to 2009 while recording mixtapes on the side. When his 2009 mixtape So Far Gone produced the hit "Best I Ever Had," he was signed by Lil Wayne's Young Money, and the actor became one of the most commercially successful musicians in the world.

He was born on October 24, 1986, in Toronto, at 2:31 in the morning, a time recorded on his birth certificate. His Sun had just entered Scorpio, in its first degree, and Venus, retrograde, and Pluto are also in Scorpio, all three in his third house, the sector of words and everyday speech. Scorpio is the sign of secrets, intensity and emotional power, and it is drawn to what is hidden. Three Scorpio placements in the third describe someone whose words carry emotional charge, and Drake's lyrics are full of grudges, confessions, old flames and scores to settle.

His Moon is in Cancer, placed in his eleventh house among friends, crews and loyal circles. A Cancer Moon is sensitive, nostalgic and protective of its people. Drake is famous for emotionally open rap, sentimental songs about exes and home, and his company and label, OVO, short for October's Very Own, are built around a tight circle of longtime friends. The October in the name is his birthday month.

Mercury in Scorpio, along with Saturn and Uranus in Sagittarius, falls in his fourth house of home and roots. Drake has made his hometown central to his identity, popularizing "the 6" as a nickname for Toronto and serving as a global ambassador for the Toronto Raptors.

His father, Dennis Graham, is a drummer from Memphis, and his mother, Sandi, is a Jewish Canadian teacher; he grew up in Toronto, had a bar mitzvah and was raised mostly by his mother after his parents separated.

Mars in Aquarius in the sixth house describes work done in an independent, innovative way. Drake has been relentlessly productive, releasing albums and singles at a rate that keeps him on the charts almost constantly. "One Dance" and "God's Plan" became global hits, and he has set records for the number of songs placed on the Billboard Hot 100.

Jupiter, retrograde in Pisces, sits in his seventh house of open rivals as well as partners. Drake has had a series of public feuds, most famously in 2024 with Kendrick Lamar, whose diss track "Not Like Us" became a cultural phenomenon and a Grammy winner. Drake responded with tracks of his own and later took legal action against his label over the song.

He has a son, Adonis, born in 2017, whose existence he addressed in his music after it was revealed by a rival. The Scorpio planets in the house of words have made his career one long, public confession, with a few counterattacks along the way.