Born: October 24, 1986, 2:31 AM local time, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Source: Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA.
The AA rating means the birth time comes from a reliable record, so the rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses below can be read with confidence. Open Drake's chart on Astrolas to follow along.
Four planets sit in kScorpio: the Sun, Mercury, Venus and PPluto. Three of them, the Sun, Venus and Pluto, land together in the 3rd house, the part of the chart the Astrolas library ties to communication and the way a mind takes in the world. The fourth, Mercury, sits one house over, in the 4th, alongside Saturn and Uranus in Sagittarius. The chart splits in two: a Scorpio cluster built for intense, private communication, and a Sagittarius-and-Scorpio cluster built around home and roots.
Drake has built an entire persona out of that second house. He raps about Toronto constantly, has the city's 416 area code tattooed on his ribs, and still records much of his music from there. He titled a 2018 album Scorpion, one of the rare times his own chart and his own branding land on the same word.
Before music, he spent years in front of cameras, playing Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation. The chart below reads like someone whose private intensity and public hometown loyalty run on two separate, well-wired tracks.
Sun, Venus and Pluto in Scorpio, in the 3rd house
The Sun sits at 0ยฐ33' Scorpio, Venus at 18ยฐ55' Scorpio, and Pluto at 7ยฐ01' Scorpio, all three in the 3rd house. The Astrolas library reads the Scorpio Sun as intense and magnetic, guided by Pluto, with sharp psychological insight and a will built to survive setbacks and come back changed. Scorpio Venus wants love that is complete and consuming rather than casual, with a possessive streak and real skill at managing money. Pluto in Scorpio, the sign it rules, is generational for anyone born between 1983 and 1995, and on a personal level it grants the ability to see past the surface of things, a private inner world only a few people reach, and an instinct for how money, control and power connect.
The 3rd house turns all three outward into communication. The library's Sun here wants recognition through speech and ideas and can become an effective, even commanding, speaker. Its Venus, slowed by retrograde motion, is charming but discreet, preferring to connect one-on-one rather than broadcast widely. Its Pluto says little but makes every word carry weight, and accumulates information other people trust it to keep private. Three planets built around depth, charm and control, all routed through the house of words, describes an artist whose career runs on lyrics as much as on image. His 2018 album Scorpion leans directly into the sign's themes of trust, loyalty and being misread.
Mercury in Scorpio, with Saturn and Uranus in Sagittarius, in the 4th house
Mercury sits at 24ยฐ42' Scorpio, in the 4th house, while Saturn at 7ยฐ31' and Uranus at 19ยฐ43', both in lSagittarius, land in the same house. The library's Scorpio Mercury is a mind drawn to hidden truths rather than surface information, well suited to research or investigation, speaking only when it has something worth saying and then holding firm once decided. Saturn in Sagittarius reads as success that arrives late, after a difficult youth and a long apprenticeship in patience, eventually built toward teaching or leadership through philosophy and clear principle. Uranus in Sagittarius adds a pioneering, rebellious streak and a quick mind drawn to travel and new belief systems, with intuition that senses upheaval before it lands, a placement the library also treats as generational for the whole cohort born with it.
In the 4th house, all three turn toward home. Mercury here keeps family communication close but quiet, often working from home or a private study. Saturn in the 4th describes a childhood that demanded self-reliance early, a drive to own property as proof of stability, and success built partly through real estate. Uranus in the 4th resists a conventional household, reshaping any home to fit its own rhythm and needing the freedom to come and go. Drake has built his identity around exactly that mix: Toronto loyalty broadcast through his OVO Sound label and his own nickname for the city, "the 6," paired with a home base widely reported to be built on a large scale in the city where he grew up.
Mercury conjunct Venus
Mercury and Venus sit 5ยฐ47' apart, Mercury in Scorpio's 4th house and Venus in Scorpio's 3rd, a conjunction the library has its own entry for. It reads the pairing as charm expressed through humor, someone who can talk to almost anyone about almost anything and uses that ease to soothe conflict and build consensus rather than start it. It's a literary, diplomatic combination, with a noted tendency to put enjoyment ahead of work and a playful, flirtatious streak running underneath the charm.
That matches an artist known nearly as much for humor and a meme-ready public persona as for the music itself, someone whose interviews and online presence run on exactly that kind of easy, disarming charm.
Moon in Cancer, in the 11th house
The Moon sits at 12ยฐ18' fCancer, in the 11th house. The library's Cancer Moon is deeply attached and protective, excellent at remembering the details of the people it loves, sometimes to the point of holding on too tightly. In the 11th house, that same need for attachment runs through friendship rather than romance: close friends get treated like family, some relationships last a lifetime, and the library notes a pattern of people arriving with a purpose and leaving once it's served, alongside real skill at networking and bringing people together.
Drake has kept a tight, consistent circle of collaborators for most of his career, built his OVO Sound label around them, and has hosted OVO Fest in Toronto most summers as a kind of standing invitation to that wider circle.
Mars in Aquarius, in the 6th house
Mars sits at 8ยฐ48' xAquarius, in the 6th house. The library's Aquarius Mars channels energy into ideas and reform rather than brute force, independent-minded but capable of first-rate teamwork once the goal lines up with its own values, and willing to break from convention to get there. In the 6th house, that same drive shows up as a fast, decisive work pace, with the best results coming when it's paired with attention to detail and a habit of following a project through to the end rather than drifting.
That reads like a fair description of a release schedule that moves quickly from one sound to the next, pulling in dancehall, UK grime and other influences well outside the expected lane for a Toronto rapper, backed by a work rate widely reported as one of the most prolific in the genre.
Leo rising, at the very end of the sign
The Ascendant sits at 29ยฐ51' gLeo, right at the end of the sign, with the Descendant at 29ยฐ51' Aquarius, the Midheaven at 23ยฐ08' Taurus and the IC at 23ยฐ08' Scorpio. The Sun sits close by, sextile the Ascendant at an orb of 0ยฐ41'. The Astrolas library doesn't yet have entries for Leo rising, a Taurus Midheaven, or that Sun-Ascendant contact, so this article won't build a reading on them beyond stating where they fall. With an AA-rated time, the degrees themselves can be trusted, including how close the Ascendant sits to the edge of the next sign.
What the chart adds up to
Nothing here explains writing talent, and a chart can't account for timing or luck. What it shows is where the weight sits: four planets in Scorpio split between the house of communication and the house of home, pointed at two things built into the career from the start, saying exactly what he means in his own words, and never letting go of where he's from.
Open Drake's chart on Astrolas, look at the 3rd and 4th houses, and compare it with a chart you know.
Questions people ask
What is Drake's rising sign?
Leo, at 29ยฐ51', based on his AA-rated birth time of 2:31 AM.
What are Drake's Sun and Moon signs?
His Sun is at 0ยฐ33' Scorpio in the 3rd house. His Moon is at 12ยฐ18' Cancer in the 11th house.
What is the strongest feature of his chart?
Four planets in Scorpio, the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, split across the 3rd and 4th houses. It's the clearest throughline in the whole chart.