Caitlin Clark Birth Chart

On September 4, 2025, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clark">Indiana Fever ruled Caitlin Clark out for the remainder of the WNBA season</a>. She had played thirteen games. Groin. Quad. Ankle. The most-watched guard in the league spent her team's playoff run on the sideline while her franchise came one win short of the WNBA Finals. Seven months later, at training camp on April 19, 2026, she told reporters she was 100 percent healthy and had learned to be "smarter with my body."

That sentence — a twenty-four-year-old phenom talking about being smarter with her body — is where her chart opens up.

Caitlin Clark was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clark">born January 22, 2002, in Des Moines, Iowa</a>. Her chart has what astrologers call a stellium — three or more planets crowded into a single sign, so dense that the sign's themes stop being a flavor and start being the operating system. Clark has four. The same Aquarius-heavy signature runs through <a href="/celebrities/karol-g">Karol G's chart</a>, where Aquarian cognition drives a different kind of public identity — further proof that an Aquarius stellium is a temperament, not a career prescription. Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Neptune are all in Aquarius, and Uranus (Aquarius's modern ruler) sits at 23 degrees of the same sign for good measure. Five Aquarian bodies out of ten.

Aquarius is the sign of the systems-thinker, the outsider who sees the game from a satellite and redraws the court. It is detached, future-tilted, often more comfortable changing a sport than belonging to one. If you have ever wondered why a player raised in Iowa plays basketball as if the invisible logo at half-court is ten feet further back than it actually is — pulling up from 30, 32, 34 feet as if the distance were a rounding error — the Aquarian stellium is the answer the chart gives. Aquarius rewrites the rules of space.

But stelliums are not free money. A pile-up of one element in one sign means the psyche is unbalanced by design. We will come back to what Clark's Aquarius pile-up has to compensate for. First, the Big Two.

Because Clark's birth time is not a matter of public record, her rising sign and house placements cannot be responsibly stated. The third Big Three block — Rising — is replaced below with a transparent note on why we will not guess.

At the heart of the stellium, Clark's Sun sits at two degrees of Aquarius — the very early reaches of the sign, where its themes are raw and programmatic rather than polished. The Aquarius Sun is the innovator-as-identity. It wants to change a system, not dominate within one. On the floor that translates into range, vision, passing geometry — skills that reshape what a guard is allowed to do rather than perfect what guards already do. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clark">single-season WNBA assists record of 289 and single-game record of 19 (July 17, 2024)</a> are not incidental to an Aquarius Sun; they are the Aquarius Sun's language. See the whole floor. Move the ball. Rewrite what a rookie season looks like.

The cost is the other half of the sign. Aquarius is the most detached of the fixed signs, and a Sun identity organized around reinventing a system can struggle to sit inside the system once it has been reinvented. Clark is often discussed as if she is larger than the WNBA she joined, and the Aquarian Sun quietly thrives on that framing even as it isolates her from peers she would otherwise belong to. The <a href="/celebrities/cristiano-ronaldo">Aquarian Sun of Cristiano Ronaldo</a> runs on the same setting: an identity built on being the exception to his sport, not a peer inside it.

The complicating placement is her Moon. The Sun's cool systemic ambition runs straight into a Taurus Moon whose nervous system is built for slow, somatic, body-first rhythms — and that collision is where 2025's injury story lives.

The Moon is how a person soothes, rests, digests. Clark's Moon is in Taurus — the sign of the body, of pace, of weight-bearing patience. Taurus Moons do not heal on schedule. They heal when the body says so. They do not get up and go when the calendar demands. They get up when the soft tissue is actually ready.

This is a brutal Moon to fuse onto a basketball prodigy whose Sun-and-stellium want to be on the court right now, running the offense for an Indianapolis franchise that just missed the Finals. The Taurus Moon is the part of her chart that gets injured when the rest of her refuses to stop. Soft tissue — groin, quad, ankle — is exactly what Taurus rules. The 2025 season was, astrologically, a Taurus Moon sending a bill.

What it demands is slowness. What it costs is time. A Taurus Moon does not reward the Aquarian Sun's urge to treat the body as a data problem. It wants to be a body.

This is the complicating placement, and it is not mild. A Moon-Mercury square (0.90 orb) runs through her chart, which tends to produce a gap between what the person knows intellectually and what the body is actually telling them. The training-camp quote — "smarter with my body" — reads, in chart terms, as the Mercury-Moon square finally being negotiated rather than overridden.

The third Big Three placement — the rising sign, which governs physical presentation, immediate style, and the angular houses (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) — depends on the exact minute of birth, not just the date. For Caitlin Clark, no public source provides a verified birth time. In astrology, source quality is graded by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Rodden">Rodden Rating system</a>; a rating of X, which is what Clark has, means the time is unknown. It is not "probably" any particular sign. It is unknown.

SerenAstro does not guess rising signs. A chart built on a guessed time will place every planet in the wrong house, generate incorrect angular aspects, and hand the reader fabricated Midheaven and Descendant data as if it were factual. That is not astrology; it is invention. To unlock the angular layer of Clark's chart responsibly, we would need a verified hospital record or birth certificate time, ideally sourced through an <a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank">Astro-Databank</a> entry with Rodden A or AA rating.

Until then, everything in this profile is anchored in the planets' sign positions and their angular relationships (aspects), which do not depend on birth time.

Mercury rules how a person processes information and communicates. Clark's is not only in Aquarius but retrograde — facing inward, looping, reviewing its own output before releasing it. The retrograde tends to produce people who think in a private language for a long time before they learn to translate it into public speech. On a basketball floor, this looks like a player who reads defenses through patterns only she is tracking; in press conferences, it reads as someone slightly more guarded than her on-court persona suggests.

Combined with the Moon-Mercury square, Mercury retrograde explains a documented pattern: Clark's clearest communication tends to come through her passing, not her soundbites. The assist average is the sentence. The post-game interview is the rough draft.

Venus in Aquarius values autonomy, friendship-as-love, and partnerships that function more like alliances than fusions. It is not an affectionate Venus. It is a respectful one. Venus is also the body-image planet, and this Venus sits tightly conjunct Neptune — the dissolution planet — within four degrees. That configuration can produce both glamour (Neptune is what makes someone photograph like a myth rather than a person) and a tendency to under-register what the body actually needs until Neptune's fog lifts, usually via crisis. In 2025, the crisis was an injury list.

And here is where the chart stops being an Aquarius portrait and starts being something more volatile.

Mars — the planet of drive, competitive edge, and physical output — is in Aries at two degrees. Aries is the sign Mars rules. This is Mars at its most unmetered: fast, direct, first-strike, willing to take the shot nobody else would take. It is the astrological signature of the pull-up from 32 feet. It is also the astrological signature of the soft-tissue injury that comes from running at max velocity through a warning the body is sending.

Clark's Mars is sextile her Saturn (5.52 orb) — a supportive angle that gives the impulsive Aries Mars structural discipline when she uses it. But the Mars is much stronger than the Saturn, and the chart's default setting is for the Aries fire to override the Saturn caution. 2025 was what happens when that default runs unchecked across an 82-game season.

Different talent, same architectural problem across elite sport: an engine designed for maximum output sitting inside a body that needs the engine governed. The Mars-in-Aries/Saturn-in-Gemini wiring is unusual — the drive does not negotiate with the brake until the brake is forced on it from outside, usually by injury.

This is the wide structural opposition at the core of Clark's chart. Saturn in Gemini opposes Pluto in Sagittarius — a generational aspect, present in many 2001–2002 charts, but amplified in Clark because both are personal-feeling in her life due to how they interact with her Mars and stellium. Saturn-Pluto oppositions produce people who carry a low-hum sense that the institution they belong to is both the thing that gives them power and the thing that will eventually demand everything from them. In career terms it reads as: the spotlight and the scrutiny are the same light.

The cost is chronic pressure-sensitivity. The demand is learning to separate what the sport wants from her from what she wants from herself. This aspect does not get resolved. It gets negotiated.

We named this in the Moon section, but it deserves its own treatment because it is the tightest square in her chart. A Moon-Mercury square at under one degree is an essentially permanent tension between emotional signal and analytical frame. The body says one thing; the mind translates it as another. Athletes with this aspect often describe "playing through" injuries that, in retrospect, they should have stopped for weeks earlier.

The training-camp language around being "smarter with my body" is this aspect getting explicit attention. It does not go away. It gets managed.

Four planets in Aquarius — Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune — means four major life functions (identity, mind, love, imagination) are all organized around the same themes: detachment, futurism, outsider perspective, systems over selves. The shadow is that the chart has very little fire outside the Mars, and very little water outside the Jupiter in Cancer. It is predominantly air and earth. This is a chart designed to see the game and to build the game, but not a chart that processes its own emotional weather with any ease. The stellium's gift is also its blind spot.

The aspect that complicates the Aquarius hero narrative is the Moon-Mercury square. Every other personal-planet aspect in her chart is a flowing one. The Moon-Mercury square is the friction point, and it is the one that actually writes the injury subplot.

The Aquarian stellium and the Aries Mars predict almost everything about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clark">Clark's NCAA career at the University of Iowa, where she finished as the all-time Division I scoring leader with 3,951 points and a Division I-record 28.42 points-per-game career average, won National Player of the Year in both 2023 and 2024, and was a unanimous first-team All-American four years running</a>. An Aries Mars takes the shots no one else will. An Aquarian Sun redefines the range those shots can come from. That combination, ridden hard for four years, is what produces a scoring record that surpasses Pete Maravich's men's mark.

The professional chapter is where the tension the chart sets up actually asserts itself. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clark">Selected first overall by the Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA Draft, Clark posted 19.2 points, 8.4 assists (league-leading), and 5.7 rebounds per game as a rookie and was named WNBA Rookie of the Year on 66 of 67 ballots</a>. A flawless chart-to-career match for year one.

Then 2025 arrived, and the Taurus Moon came due. Soft tissue does not respect narrative arcs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clark">Ruled out for the remainder of the 2025 season on September 4 after just 13 games</a>, Clark watched her team come one win short of the Finals. What the chart promised — range, vision, record-setting output — collided with what the chart also promised: a body that would not be hurried.

This is the tension the chart was always going to write. The question is whether her 2026 season is the one where she learns to let the Taurus Moon hold equal authority with the Aries Mars.

With no verified birth time, house-based claims about the 7th house of partnership are off the table. What remains is Venus and Mars, both in air/fire signs and both tightly aspected to outer planets. Venus in Aquarius wants partnership that respects independence; Venus conjunct Neptune wants partnership that feels mythic. Together the signature tends toward long, private, low-spectacle relationships with someone she considers an ally rather than an accessory. Her publicly acknowledged long-term relationship with college teammate-era partner Connor McCaffery fits that Venus-in-Aquarius-conjunct-Neptune template tonally: steady, low-noise, built around shared context rather than spectacle. (This is inference from publicly reported relationship history, not a predictive claim.)

Mars in Aries in a woman's chart often describes someone who wants her partner to be able to match her intensity without competing with it — a partner who is fast enough to keep up and secure enough not to mind being out-scored in the room.

One transit dominates Clark's 2026, and it is not generic Aquarius-sign commentary. It is <a href="/blog/aries-stellium-peak-mercury-mars-saturn-april-20-2026">transiting Saturn moving into Aries</a>, directly activating her natal Mars at 2°45' Aries.

Saturn entered Aries in the spring of 2025 and returns again, after its brief retrograde excursion back into Pisces, in early 2026. By summer and fall 2026, Saturn will conjunct Clark's natal Mars within orb for the first time in her life. This is the single most important astrological event in her professional career so far, and it is not hyperbole to say the chart built for it.

Saturn conjunct natal Mars is the classic "learn to ration the engine" transit. Saturn is the astrological principle of limits, time, structure, and the long arc. Mars is the impulse to go now, hard, first. When Saturn lands on natal Mars, the instinct to sprint is not removed — it is slowed, interrogated, made to account for itself. Athletes under this transit either emerge with a more disciplined relationship to their own physicality or they spend the transit in and out of injury clinics.

The symmetry to her 2025 injury season is almost too clean: Saturn was already grinding toward the conjunction while the soft-tissue injuries were happening. The arc the chart is writing is the education of her Aries Mars. Her training-camp language — "100 percent healthy," "smarter with my body," the measured approach — is Saturn-on-Mars language. Whether she holds to it across an 82-game schedule, against opponents who would like nothing more than to run her into the ground, is what this transit is actually asking.

The favorable reading: Saturn conjunct Mars is also the "professional's transit," the one that turns raw gift into reliable output. The 2026 season, if she lets Saturn do its work, can be the season she stops being the generational rookie and starts being the generational pro.

Caitlin Clark's chart is not a destiny chart. It is a negotiation chart. The Aquarian stellium promises a player who rewrites the geometry of her sport, and she has already delivered on that promise in three and a half years of public competition. The Aries Mars promises a player who will take the shot anyone else would decline, and the scoring records are the proof-of-concept.

But the chart refuses to be only that. The Taurus Moon demands a body that heals at its own pace, not the pace the calendar or the franchise or the discourse wants. The Moon-Mercury square keeps her mind consistently trying to override what her body is reporting until the cost of the override becomes undeniable. The Saturn-Pluto opposition means the institution that empowers her is also the institution whose pressure will keep finding new ways to land on her. And Saturn's conjunction to her Mars in 2026 is the chart collecting on four years of being ridden hard.

What this chart costs its owner is the fantasy that the Aries Mars is free. It isn't. Every shot it takes is paid for by the Taurus Moon in soft-tissue currency, and the 2025 season was the first audit. The contrarian reading, the one flatterers will not give her, is that the Aquarian stellium's detachment can trick her into treating her own body as a system to debug rather than a body to inhabit. If there is one thing to watch in her 2026 and 2027 — while Saturn finishes its slow walk across her Mars — it is whether she stops being smart about her body and starts being kind to it. Those are not the same skill. The chart knows the difference. The question is whether she does yet.

All planetary positions in this profile were calculated with Swiss Ephemeris (via Kerykeion 5.x) from Caitlin Clark's publicly documented birth date of January 22, 2002, and birthplace of Des Moines, Iowa. Because no verified birth time exists in public records, a 12:00 local time was used for sign positions only; rising sign, house placements, and Midheaven have been deliberately omitted. Aspect orbs follow standard modern-astrology tolerances.