Klay Thompson hasn't been the lead story in NBA coverage for a while. The four-time champion's 2024 move from Golden State to Dallas pulled him out of the Warriors-era spotlight, and he's spent his Mavericks year doing what Klay tends to do — showing up, making shots, declining most of the noise. So when his name spiked across feeds in late April 2026, it caught the wider audience off guard. The trigger wasn't basketball. It was a relationship dispute that pulled him into a tabloid cycle. Set the discourse aside for a moment. The chart itself — an Aquarius Sun stacked on top of one of the heaviest Capricorn signatures in current NBA astrology — has its own story to tell about why this cycle is hitting him this spring, and why it's hitting where his defenses are usually strongest.
The cultural moment that put him back in the discourse
In late April 2026, a public statement from Megan Thee Stallion turned what had been a quiet personal chapter for Thompson into a 24-hour news cycle, with WNBA guard Lexie Brown issuing her own response shortly after. The story pinballed across MadameNoire, sports talk shows, and social platforms within hours. SerenAstro doesn't take sides in disputes between living people, and nothing in a birth chart resolves a question of fact. What the chart can do is explain why a person built like Thompson tends to handle this kind of exposure the way he handles everything else — by going quiet, getting to work, and waiting it out. That instinct isn't personality. It's structural. Six of his ten major placements sit in Capricorn.
Six planets in Capricorn — the signature that builds the wall
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all sit in Capricorn at the moment Thompson was born. That's a stellium — what astrologers call any cluster of three or more planets in the same sign, an unusually concentrated signature where one element of a chart starts shouting over everything else. Six is rare. It's a chart with one settled answer to almost every question: how do you build a career, how do you handle pressure, how do you respond to attention you didn't ask for. The answer is always Capricorn — discipline, structure, the long game, the wall.
Capricorn is the sign of the climber. It's not flashy. It doesn't lead with charm. It earns trust by being unmovable across years, not weeks. Tiger Woods' Capricorn Sun is the most extreme version of this gear in modern athletics — relentless, ruthless, willing to grind through pain that would end other careers. Thompson's stellium runs the same operating system, just dialed down on the ruthlessness and up on the loyalty. He's not Capricorn the assassin. He's Capricorn the teammate who shows up at 6 a.m. for a decade, gets injured, comes back, and does it again.
But there's a cost to this much Capricorn. Saturn — Capricorn's ruler — also rules limitation, restriction, and the part of the psyche that keeps a tight grip on what gets shown. With Saturn itself in the stellium at 20° Capricorn, Thompson's defensive instinct isn't a quirk; it's a structural feature. Off-court, he gives the bare minimum to media. He doesn't volunteer interior life. The chart doesn't say that's healthy or unhealthy — it says it's permanent. When the discourse pushes him to explain himself, the chart's first move is always to retreat further behind the wall, not to step out from behind it.
The Aquarius Sun: cool, detached, outside the room
His Sun sits at 19° Aquarius — roughly the same neighborhood as Michael Jordan's Aquarius Sun, the closest superstar comparison in NBA history. Aquarius is the sign of the outsider who happens to be central — the air sign that runs cool while everyone around it runs hot. It's the sign of the player who doesn't need to be the locker-room emperor to be the locker-room conscience. Where Capricorn builds the structure, Aquarius watches the structure from one step removed and asks what it's actually for.
You can see this in how Thompson moves through media cycles. There's no instinct to defend himself in real time. There's no public fight back. Aquarius doesn't engage with the noise; it lets the noise burn itself out and waits to see what's left. That works beautifully when the cycle is about a missed shot or a slow start. It works less beautifully when the cycle is personal, because the public reads the silence as something — guilt, indifference, contempt — and the chart isn't equipped to perform any of those emotions on demand. Aquarius doesn't perform. That's the whole sign in one sentence.
His Sun also sits within three and a half degrees of his North Node — the lunar point astrologers read as a person's growth direction. With both in Aquarius, the chart's growth assignment is roughly: keep the cool, keep the standards, but stop using detachment as a hiding place. The South Node opposing — in Leo, the sign of being seen — is the comfort he tends to retreat toward when pressure rises: the version of him that performs joy, performs ease, performs the goofy locker-room kid who broke the league with a smile. The chart is asking him to grow past that, not deeper into it.
Venus and Saturn at less than a degree apart — the chart's relationship signature
This is the placement that matters most for the current discourse, and the one that's most useful for readers trying to understand his pattern. Thompson's Venus sits at 20° Capricorn. His Saturn sits at 20° Capricorn. They're less than a degree apart — a near-exact conjunction, one of the tightest aspects in his entire chart. Venus is the planet of love, attraction, and how someone gives and receives affection. Saturn is the planet of structure, slowness, and walls. When they fuse this tightly, the result is a relationship style that's slow to warm, deeply private, and built around a few people the person trusts entirely — and a hard outer perimeter for everyone else.
This is also the placement of someone who tends to choose partners who are themselves disciplined, accomplished, or load-bearing in their own right. Capricorn doesn't usually fall for charm; it falls for capability. The trade-off — and Venus-Saturn always has a trade-off — is that the wall doesn't come down evenly. People close to Venus-Saturn natives often describe a partner who shows up reliably but rarely volunteers vulnerability, who does the work of love through actions rather than words, and who experiences public discussion of their private life as a near-physical violation. That's not a moral judgment. It's just what less than a degree between Venus and Saturn does to a person. Jeremy Strong's Capricorn signature runs in the same lineage, even though the surface expression couldn't look more different.
What's important to say plainly: Venus-Saturn doesn't say anything about whether someone is faithful or unfaithful. It says something about how they relate to disclosure, how they respond to relationship friction, and how heavily they weight loyalty as a personal value. Astrology can't adjudicate accusations between living people. What it can do is explain why this specific man, with this specific signature, is reacting the way he's been reacting since the cycle started — by going quiet, declining to engage publicly, and waiting for the storm to move.
Mars conjunct Uranus: the catch-and-shoot engine
Step away from the relationship coverage and the chart has another tight conjunction worth naming, because it explains the basketball. His Mars sits at 7° Capricorn. His Uranus sits at just under 8° Capricorn. They're less than half a degree apart. Mars is the planet of action and attack. Uranus is the planet of suddenness, electricity, and the unexpected. Together, in a structural sign like Capricorn, they produce one of the cleanest astrological signatures for a catch-and-shoot specialist you're ever going to find: disciplined motion that releases at unpredictable speed, a body that fires before defenses can adjust.
The same conjunction shows up — at different degrees and in different signs — in Mirra Andreeva's clay-court surge chart, where the Mars-Uranus engine is the entire reason her serve and forehand jump three speeds when nobody's expecting them to. It's a body wired to do the unexpected at the moment of action. In Thompson's chart, with Capricorn's discipline behind it, the result is the player who set the NBA single-game three-point record in 2018 — 14 made threes against the Bulls in 27 minutes — by being absolutely still and absolutely sudden in the same possession.
The shadow side is real, though. Mars-Uranus is also the signature of injury through speed and torque, and Thompson's basketball career has been defined as much by the two catastrophic injuries he's recovered from — a torn ACL in the 2019 NBA Finals and a torn Achilles in November 2020 — as by the championships before them. Uranus delivers force fast. Capricorn structure can absorb it for a long time. Eventually something gives. The chart gives you the firepower and the cost, and you don't get one without the other.
Why this spring is hitting harder than usual: the transits
Three transits are running through Thompson's chart right now, and they're the reason the cultural cycle isn't just landing on him — it's landing on him at exactly the points where he's least defended. The first is Jupiter at the very beginning of Cancer, opposing his entire late-Capricorn stack. Jupiter magnifies whatever it touches. When it sits within a degree or two of opposition to a person's natal Saturn-Venus conjunction, as it is now, it tends to take the most private parts of the relationship structure and force them into a wider audience than the person ever wanted. This isn't the chart predicting scandal. It's the chart describing why something previously contained is suddenly being talked about in front of a much larger room.
The second is Pluto, now in Aquarius, opposing his Leo Moon at roughly two and a half degrees. The Moon is the chart's emotional life — its private interior. Pluto opposite the Moon is the slow excavation transit. It pulls things up from below, in relationships and in the inner life, that the person had organized themselves around not feeling. This is a multi-year transit. Whatever this spring's discourse turns out to mean for him, the chart suggests Thompson is in the middle of a much longer process of being unable to keep things buried that he used to be able to.
The third is Saturn in Aries, square his Mars-Uranus conjunction at one and a half degrees. Saturn-square-Mars is friction. It slows the engine down. Athletes feel it in their bodies — the lift isn't quite there, the catch-and-shoot rhythm isn't snapping the way it usually does. Pair that with a Saturn square to natal Uranus, the planet of his suddenness, and you get a 2025-26 stretch that has reportedly run hotter and colder than his Warriors years on shooting consistency. The body is asking for a different gear. The chart is asking for one too. Stephen Curry's chart — Thompson's longtime Splash Brothers partner across four titles — is going through its own slowdown for closely related Saturn reasons. The era they shared has the same astrological ceiling lowering on it.
Where the chart pushes back
Every interpretation should name what the chart resists, not just what it confirms. Thompson's Sun sits at 19° Aquarius and his Pluto sits at 17° Scorpio — a tight square at just over two degrees. Sun-Pluto squares produce people who carry significant private power and significant private discomfort with that power, and who tend to externalize the discomfort by withholding access. The wall isn't just defensive; it's also a control mechanism, and Pluto is the planet that reveals control mechanisms by force. The current Pluto-opposite-Moon transit is essentially the same square running in slow motion across his emotional life.
There's a second tension worth naming. His Mars-Uranus conjunction also sits in opposition to his Jupiter in Cancer — the planet of family, home, and emotional inheritance. Athletes with this configuration often grow up around a family identity tied to performance, and Thompson did: his father, Mychal Thompson, was a two-time NBA champion before him. The chart's gift is that he carries the family legacy with grace. The chart's cost is that the gift was never neutral. Performance was always part of how love was structured. That's a real weight to carry quietly. The Capricorn stellium has been carrying it for thirty-six years.
What this chapter looks like under his stars
By the back end of 2026, two of these transits will be off him. Jupiter will move further into Cancer and out of orb of his late-Capricorn stack. Saturn will move further into Aries and finish its square to Mars-Uranus. The Pluto-Moon transit, though, has years left to run. Whatever shape Thompson's life takes after this spring, it's not the spring he's negotiating — it's the longer Pluto excavation. Reading the chart on its own terms, the most likely path is what Capricorn always does: take the hit quietly, restructure the perimeter, come back with a smaller, more chosen circle. That's not a prediction; it's a description of what this configuration tends to default to under pressure.
What is Klay Thompson's zodiac sign?
Klay Thompson is an Aquarius. He was born February 8, 1990, in Los Angeles, with his Sun at 19 degrees Aquarius. The same neighborhood of Aquarius is occupied by Michael Jordan's Sun, making them rare astrological neighbors among NBA superstars and useful comparison cases.
What does Klay Thompson's birth chart say about him as an athlete?
Thompson's birth chart shows a six-planet stellium in Capricorn, supporting an Aquarius Sun. The signature points to extreme discipline, and a tight Mars-Uranus conjunction in Capricorn suggests a body wired for sudden, structured release: the catch-and-shoot specialist's astrological signature, with injury risk through speed and torque as the trade-off.
Is Klay Thompson's birth time known?
His birth time is not publicly verified. SerenAstro therefore uses a noon Los Angeles chart and does not analyze his rising sign or house placements. Sign positions and aspects between planets remain reliable, since those are calculated from the date and location alone, not the precise hour of birth.
What does the Venus-Saturn conjunction mean in his chart?
His Venus sits less than a degree from his Saturn in Capricorn — one of the tightest aspects in his chart. The conjunction suggests a relationship style that builds slowly, places extreme weight on loyalty and privacy, and treats public discussion of personal life as a serious violation. It is not a moral assessment of any individual.
Which transits are affecting Klay Thompson in 2026?
In spring 2026, three transits are active across his chart: Jupiter in early Cancer opposing his Capricorn stack, Pluto in Aquarius opposite his Leo Moon, and Saturn in Aries squaring his Mars-Uranus conjunction. Together they describe a year of unusual public exposure paired with a longer process of private excavation.
