Aaliyah
Aaliyah (born January 16, 1979, Brooklyn, United States; died 2001), was an American R&B singer. Best-known releases include Aaliyah, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number and One in a Million. Aaliyah's honours include American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist, American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Album and Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female.
Aaliyah’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Aaliyah
Aaliyah’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Aaliyah in the U.S.?
#101
US rank in 2025
~110,077
Americans share it since 1976
2012
its peak year
In 1979, 38 American girls were registered Aaliyah — 2,430th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
Aaliyah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Aaliyah apart
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film came in 2000, when Aaliyah was 21.
The schooling ran through Detroit School of Arts.
Aaliyah was 10 when the work began in 1989.
The record gives aviation accident as the cause, and Ferncliff Cemetery as the resting place.
Aaliyah was married R. Kelly.
On Wikipedia the categories read Child marriage in the United States, Dancers from Michigan and Jive Records artists.
Jennie (1996) and Kate Moss (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Detroit School of Arts
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist (2002), MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film (2000) and American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist (2003)
- Nominated for
- American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Album and Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist
- Working from
- 1989
- Cause of death
- aviation accident
- Buried at
- Ferncliff Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Aaliyah, according to the stars
Core essence
Aaliyah is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Aaliyah is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Aaliyah wants to be loved
Aaliyah wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Aaliyah and watch them fall for you again.
How Aaliyah creates
How Aaliyah makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Aaliyah creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Aaliyah is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Aaliyah is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Aaliyah does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Aaliyah's birth date. Working below.
Where Aaliyah sits
Six lines
Aaliyah’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Aaliyah
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Capella, in Auriga, 82.7° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
The Moon, 88% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Marsh Harbour, Central Abaco in 2001.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Aaliyah: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Aaliyah's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Aaliyah at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Aaliyah's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Aaliyah was born on January 16, 1979, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Aaliyah's birth date, January 16, 1979, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Aaliyah’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Aaliyah's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Aaliyah combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Aaliyah’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Aaliyah’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.8° to 1.0° orb
Aaliyah’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.2° to 2.8° orb
Aaliyah’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.9° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 3.4° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 4.7° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquarePlutoorb from 6.2° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 6.7° to 18.4° depending on birth time
possibleMarsoppositionJupiterorb from 7.8° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Aaliyah’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 5°03′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 16°14′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°59′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°16′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.6°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.8°
- Ceres trine Pluto 3.0°
Aaliyah’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Aaliyah’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
More people like Aaliyah
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- Clay Aiken1978
- Jennifer Love Hewitt1979
- Katie Holmes1978
- Tatyana Ali1979
- Rachel McAdams1978
- Chris Klein1979
Born in United States
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- Katie HolmesAmerican actress
- Jason IsbellAmerican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1979)
- Matthew MorrisonAmerican actor, dancer, and singer
- Chris KleinAmerican actor
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Fellow Capricorn suns
- Steve HarveyAmerican television presenter, comedian, actor, and author
- Liam HemsworthAustralian actor
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Born in Horse years
- Yasushi NagaoJapanese photographer
- Leon KirchnerAmerican composer
- John S. KnightAmerican newspaper publisher
Also born on January 16
- Jennie1996
- Kate Moss1974
- FKA twigs1988
- René Angélil1942
- Meri Brown1971
- Lin-Manuel Miranda1980
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- K. J. OsbornAmerican football wide receiver
- Tommy TownsendAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Kylen GransonAmerican football tight end
Other Capricorn Horse charts
- Chop RobinsonAmerican football player (born 2003)
- Milos UzanAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Will RichardAmerican basketball player
- Caleb HoustanAmerican basketball player
Other Tidal Visionarys
- David PeoplesAmerican screenwriter
- Pete DocterAmerican animator and film director
- Lawrence Watt-EvansAmerican writer
- Joe WalshAmerican rock musician
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Amber RoseAmerican model and television personality
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Aaliyah’s cards
Computed from January 16, 1979. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Aaliyah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11617 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by mika-photography.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Aaliyah at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Aaliyah.
Quick answers about Aaliyah’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Aaliyah?
- Aaliyah was a Capricorn: born January 16, 1979, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Aaliyah's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1979 birth.
- What was Aaliyah's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Aaliyah's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Aaliyah's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Aaliyah's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
