Mazal Leo · rising Pisces
Whitney Houston's mazal
American singer — born 9 August 1963 at 8:55 pm, in Newark
20 Av 5723
כ׳ אָב תשכ״ג
Born after sunset — the sun went down at 8:04 pm in Newark that day. In the Hebrew calendar the day begins at dusk, so her date is the following one.
| Birth | 9 August 1963, 8:55 pm, Newark |
| Source of the time | birth certificate |
| Sunset | 8:04 pm that day |
| Hebrew date | 20 Av 5723 |
| Hebrew month | Av אָב |
| Sign (mazal) | Leo אריה |
| Rising sign | Pisces |
| Planet of the month | the Sun |
| Element | Fire |
| Tribe of Israel | Issachar |
| Gemstone | The sapphire (sapir) |
Born on a Friday at 8:55 pm, after sunset. In the Hebrew calendar she was therefore not born on a Friday but on Shabbat — the day had already turned. The site's engine established that, not us.
The chart in a paragraph
Leo, rising Pisces
Av, the month of the Sun: Leo gives the voice that carries, the generosity, the need to shine. But Pisces was rising in the east — the most fluid soul on the wheel, the one that takes in everything passing and filters none of it. A sky of full daylight laid over water with no floor.
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 Av, 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 Whitney Houston'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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