Mazal Aquarius · rising Sagittarius
Elvis Presley's mazal
American singer — born 8 January 1935 at 4:35 am, in Tupelo
4 Shvat 5695
ד׳ שְׁבָט תרצ״ה
Born before sunset, which fell at 5:03 pm that day in Tupelo: his Hebrew date is that of the same day.
| Birth | 8 January 1935, 4:35 am, Tupelo |
| Source of the time | the attending doctor's record |
| Sunset | 5:03 pm that day |
| Hebrew date | 4 Shvat 5695 |
| Hebrew month | Shvat שְׁבָט |
| Sign (mazal) | Aquarius דלי |
| Rising sign | Sagittarius |
| Planet of the month | Saturn |
| Element | Air |
| Tribe of Israel | Asher |
| Gemstone | The chrysolite, of a golden green (tarshish) |
Shvat is the month of the trees: Tu Bishvat, their new year, falls on the 15th. A month when the sap rises before anything shows.
The chart in a paragraph
Aquarius, rising Sagittarius
Shvat, the month when the sap rises before anything shows. Aquarius is being ahead of your own time: what throws people at first and sets the school afterwards. Rising in the east was Sagittarius — the drive, the excess, the arrow. A sky of air and fire: enough to light something no one will know how to put out.
This is what tradition reads in that sky — and it sets its own limit at once: “Israel is above the mazal” (Shabbat 156a). A sky describes a slope, never a fate.
What tradition says
The month of Shvat, not the person
What you read here describes a month of the Hebrew calendar: its mazal, its planet, its element, its tribe and its stone, as reported by the Talmud, the Book of Creation and the Book of the Angel Raziel. Nothing is asserted about Elvis Presley's character — we give a date, a time, and what tradition attaches to the month. Not a portrait.
The rising sign does not depend on the month but on the time and the place: it is the sign that was climbing the eastern horizon at the moment of birth. It changes roughly every two hours — without an exact time it cannot be calculated. That is why this page only presents births whose hour is on record.
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