Born 1993-12-03 · Maplewood, New Jersey, USA · birth time unverified
MKBHD's chart reveals an expansive, philosophical spirit... someone driven by meaning, adventure, and the belief that life is an ongoing discovery. With a Sagittarius Sun in the 9th house, their sense of purpose is expressed through the domain of philosophy and expansion... a placement that shapes how they show up in the world and what they're here to do.
Beneath the surface, a Leo Moon speaks to what MKBHD needs emotionally... warmth, recognition, and creative expression to feel secure. This is the private self, the part that exists when the spotlight fades.
The world meets MKBHD through Pisces rising... gentle, empathic, and slightly ethereal... someone who seems to exist in a world slightly more beautiful than the one everyone else sees. This is the lens through which all of their chart's energy is filtered, the first thing people sense before they know the full story.
Their energy is expansive and adventurous... they chase what excites them with contagious enthusiasm. A concentration of planets in Sagittarius gives MKBHD's chart a strong Sagittarius emphasis... amplifying the themes of that sign throughout their life.
♐ Sagittarius
11° · House 9
♌ Leo
4° · House 6
♏ Scorpio
25° · House 9
♐ Sagittarius
0° · House 9
♐ Sagittarius
17° · House 10
♏ Scorpio
4° · House 8
♒ Aquarius
24° · House 12
♑ Capricorn
20° · House 11
♑ Capricorn
19° · House 11
♏ Scorpio
26° · House 9
♐ Sagittarius
3° · House 9℞
♍ Virgo
8° · House 7
Your Sun in Sagittarius in the ninth house is in its most natural domain ... Sagittarius governs the 9th house's themes of philosophy, higher education, foreign travel, and the expansion of the mind and spirit, and the Sun in this position means your core identity expresses most authentically through the ongoing, genuinely alive pursuit of wisdom and meaning. This is one of the most philosophically alive placements in the chart: you are a natural teacher, traveler, philosopher, and seeker whose sense of self is inseparable from the sense that the universe is larger and more interesting than you've yet discovered. Jupiter amplifies this house's already expansive energy, giving genuine gifts for higher education, publishing, international work, and the transmission of wisdom to audiences who need it. To work with this energy consciously, formalize your accumulated wisdom into teachings, books, or structured courses ... your breadth of experience and philosophical insight deserve to be genuinely shared rather than perpetually gathered. The honest challenge is the perpetual student who never graduates into genuine mastery: Sagittarius in the 9th can remain in the seeker role indefinitely, gathering philosophical frameworks with genuine enthusiasm while avoiding the commitment to a single path that would produce the depth from which actual teaching emerges.
Your Moon in Leo in the sixth house channels fixed fire warmth and the Sun's need for genuine recognition into the domain of daily work, craft, and bodily health ... and what this means practically is that your emotional stability is genuinely and directly tied to feeling valued in your daily work, being given latitude for creative contribution, and working in environments where the human dimension of what you do is honored rather than systematically ignored. Leo is a fixed fire sign ruled by the Sun, and in the 6th house those qualities mean your daily work needs to carry a quality of personal investment and visible individual contribution rather than being purely functional or interchangeable with what anyone else could provide: you need to feel that what you do is genuinely yours and is genuinely recognized as such. This placement means your body is also a reliable register of your emotional state in work: joy and creative engagement visibly improve your physical vitality, while boredom, invisibility, or being treated as replaceable can manifest as genuine physical symptoms ... fatigue, headaches, loss of appetite, or other signals that the inner Sun is not getting enough of what it requires. You are most effective in roles that include some element of creative expression, visible contribution, or leadership ... even informal leadership that allows your warmth and organizational energy to shape the environment. To work with this energy consciously, design your working life to include the specific combination of creative autonomy and genuine recognition that your Leo Moon requires ... this is not an indulgence but a genuine productivity strategy. The honest growth challenge is that Leo in the 6th can struggle to find meaning in routine, unglamorous work that is genuinely necessary, and the growth is developing the ability to bring your warmth and personal investment to any task regardless of whether it provides the spotlight you find most nourishing.
Your Mercury in Scorpio in the ninth house gives you a philosophical mind that refuses the easy answer, the comforting narrative, and the belief system that has not been genuinely tested at its foundations ... your pursuit of philosophical and spiritual truth is characterized by a willingness to go beneath every surface until you reach what is actually there. Mercury governs thinking and communication; Scorpio is fixed water co-ruled by Mars and Pluto, and in the ninth house of higher learning, philosophy, and the ongoing project of building a meaningful worldview, that quality produces a philosophical mind that is genuinely transformative rather than merely accumulative. You may be drawn to depth psychology, mysticism, and transformative traditions that require genuine personal engagement rather than intellectual exploration from a safe distance. To work with this energy consciously, develop your capacity for philosophical and spiritual transformation by allowing your most important beliefs to be genuinely challenged rather than strategically defended ... the beliefs that survive real testing are far more valuable than those held through their resistance to examination. The growth edge is that Scorpio's intensity in the ninth house can make philosophical and spiritual positions feel like personal territories to defend rather than ongoing investigations; the growth work is developing the courage to be genuinely changed by what you discover, not only to deepen your existing convictions.
Your Venus in Sagittarius in the ninth house is a naturally harmonious and powerful placement ... Sagittarius rules the ninth house, and Venus here thrives in the realm of philosophy, travel, higher education, and the search for meaning. You are deeply in love with learning, exploring, and connecting with people across cultures and belief systems. Travel is not a luxury for you but a necessity, and you may develop significant relationships with people from very different backgrounds. Higher education and philosophical study bring genuine pleasure and fulfillment. Your aesthetic sense is globally informed and culturally open. The challenge is perpetual seeking without integration ... always looking for the next horizon without fully absorbing the wisdom of where you are. Consciously create periods of reflection and integration between your adventures, allowing the breadth of your experience to deepen into genuine wisdom.
Your Mars in Sagittarius in the tenth house channels adventurous, philosophical, and vision-driven energy into your career and public reputation. You are drawn to careers that involve teaching, publishing, exploration, law, international work, or spreading meaningful ideas to wide audiences. Your professional reputation is built on your enthusiasm, your conviction, and your ability to inspire others with a larger vision. The challenge is that the same love of new horizons that motivates you can lead to changing professional directions before you've fully built something lasting. The insight: combining your natural visionary drive with a commitment to seeing one major professional project through to its fullest expression creates the lasting legacy your ambitions deserve.
Your Jupiter in Scorpio in the eighth house is an extraordinarily powerful placement, as Jupiter's expansive energy sits in its most intense sign within the house that Scorpio naturally governs. You possess a remarkable capacity for deep transformation, psychological insight, and the management of shared resources. Life's most intense passages ... crisis, loss, profound intimacy, encounters with mortality ... are where you find your greatest growth and your deepest faith. Financial matters involving inheritance, insurance, investment, or shared resources tend to benefit you over time. Your psychological depth is exceptional, and you may serve as a healer, therapist, or guide for others navigating their own dark nights. The challenge is addiction to intensity ... seeking crisis or drama when life becomes too calm. Learn to find depth in ordinary moments alongside the extraordinary ones, and this placement delivers a life of profound meaning, genuine power, and continuous regeneration.
Your Saturn in Aquarius in the twelfth house, Saturn in its own sign, places its systematic demands in the most hidden and interior domain of the horoscope. You may carry deep, often unconscious drives toward intellectual independence and freedom that are difficult to fully acknowledge or express in daily life, surfacing instead in dreams, fantasy, or solitary intellectual projects. The twelfth house asks for surrender, and for you that means releasing the need to intellectually understand and systematize every dimension of inner experience. Contemplative practices that balance rational inquiry with genuine openness to mystery are most valuable. The insights you develop in solitude are ahead of their time and worth sharing when you are ready.
Your Uranus in Capricorn in the eleventh house brings strategic vision and institutional savvy to your friendships, community involvement, and collective aspirations. Capricorn is cardinal earth, so you approach group dynamics with maturity, a sense of responsibility, and a practical understanding of how organizations actually work, while Uranus amplifies your desire to reform these structures. As a generational placement, your cohort transforms social institutions, governance models, and how communities organize for collective achievement, and with Uranus in your eleventh house, you are personally drawn to groups that are building something new and lasting. Your friendships tend to be with people you respect for their competence and integrity, and you may take on leadership or organizational roles within your communities. You are drawn to causes that involve institutional reform, economic justice, or modernizing systems that affect large groups. The challenge is not letting your practical assessment of what is achievable limit your collective vision, since the best social change requires both realism and imagination. When you bring your strategic gifts to communities that dream big, your organizational skill becomes the bridge between vision and reality.
Your Neptune in Capricorn in the eleventh house places the planet of dreams and collective vision in the house of friends, communities, and social causes, grounded by Capricorn's disciplined, traditional, and strategically minded nature. Neptune in Capricorn is generational, but the eleventh house makes community involvement and social idealism personally meaningful. You are drawn to organizations and communities with institutional substance ... groups committed to long-term structural change, professional associations with serious purpose, or communities that combine visionary ideals with practical implementation. The practical insight is to channel your capacity for sustained effort and strategic thinking in service of genuinely important collective goals, building structures that can outlast any individual contribution.
Your Pluto in Scorpio in the ninth house directs the planet's full power toward philosophy, higher education, and the search for ultimate truth. Your approach to belief and meaning is uncompromising ... you cannot accept comforting platitudes or untested dogma, but must discover truth through direct, often harrowing personal experience. You may be drawn to study psychology, the occult, forensic science, philosophy of death and existence, or any subject that plumbs the deepest questions of human nature. Travel to places of historical tragedy or profound spiritual significance may catalyze transformative experiences. Your worldview undergoes periodic demolition and reconstruction as new layers of truth are revealed. Academic or spiritual pursuits carry the intensity of a personal mission rather than casual intellectual interest. The growth edge is maintaining hope and constructive purpose alongside your unflinching confrontation with life's darker realities. When you hold truth and meaning together, your philosophical depth becomes a profound resource for anyone seeking genuine wisdom about the human condition.
Your North Node in Sagittarius in the ninth house is a beautifully natural alignment ... your soul's growth lives directly in the ninth house's domain of philosophy, higher learning, travel, and the quest for meaning. You are here to be a genuine seeker ... someone who pursues wisdom across cultures, disciplines, and lifetimes with insatiable enthusiasm and genuine openness. Study broadly and deeply, travel with philosophical curiosity, develop and share your own evolving worldview with generous enthusiasm, and resist the pull toward narrow, defensive intellectual positions. Your greatest gift to the world is the expansive, joyful wisdom of a mind that never stopped seeking.
Your Chiron in Virgo in the seventh house places the Wounded Healer in committed partnerships through Virgo's analytical, improvement-focused mutable earth energy. Your deepest wound involves the tendency to either criticize your partner relentlessly or to attract partners who criticize you, recreating a cycle of inadequacy within your closest relationships. You may feel that your partner is never quite good enough or that you yourself can never meet your partner's standards. There can be a painful dynamic of trying to fix or improve each other rather than accepting and loving as is. Your gift is a practical, grounded understanding of how healthy partnerships are built through patient attention to daily acts of care and the willingness to work on the relationship with dedication. The growth path involves releasing the need for a perfect partner or a perfect relationship, and recognizing that the beauty of genuine partnership lies in its imperfections and in the ongoing, loving choice to grow together.
With Pisces rising, the world sees you as gentle, perceptive, and subtly deep. People sense your empathy before you speak... you absorb the energy of a room without trying. There's a dreamlike quality to your presence that makes you hard to pin down, and that elusiveness is part of your charm.
With your Descendant in Virgo, you're drawn to partners who are practical, attentive, and quietly devoted. You seek relationships built on mutual improvement... where both people help each other become better.
With your Midheaven in Sagittarius, your career path is expansive, philosophical, and oriented toward growth. You're drawn to work that involves teaching, travel, publishing, or exploring new territory. Your public reputation is built on optimism and the ability to see possibilities others miss.
With your IC in Gemini, your roots are shaped by conversation, learning, and mental stimulation. Your childhood home was likely full of books, talk, or frequent change. You recharge through reading, writing, or connecting with siblings.