Akon
Akon (born April 16, 1973, St. Louis, United States), aged 53, is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Best-known releases include Konvicted, Trouble and Freedom.
Akon’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Ox, with 
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Akon’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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Akon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Akon, according to the stars
Core essence
Akon leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Akon is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Akon cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Akon needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Akon wants to be loved
Akon wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Akon creates
How Akon makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Akon creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Akon is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Akon is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Akon goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Akon's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Akon sits
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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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Akon's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Akon was born on April 16, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Akon's birth date, April 16, 1973, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Akon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Akon's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Six of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
- Akon combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Akon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Akon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoontrineSaturn0.1° to 6.3° orb
Akon’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.7° to 1.9° orb
Akon’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.8° to 2.5° orb
Akon’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.0° to 3.2° orb
Akon’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
Akon’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.7° to 3.9° orb
Akon’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
Akon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb
Akon’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.3° to 5.9° orb
Akon’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineUranus5.6° to 6.3° orb
Akon’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrinePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
Akon’s growth flows straight into their depths.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Akon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 17°23′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Akon may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 17°44′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Akon is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosGemini 16°02′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Akon is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°20′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Akon is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Akon leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.9°
- Eros trine Mars 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Akon’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Akon is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Akon’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.0°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.2°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Akon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Akon
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Born in United States
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- Alohi GilmanAmerican football safety
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Other Tidal Pioneers
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Akon’s cards
Every card is computed from April 16, 1973, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Akon, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Akon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q32849, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Collision Conf, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Akon at Wikipedia, akon.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Akon.
Quick answers about Akon’s chart
- How old is Akon?
- Akon is 53 years old, born April 16, 1973 in St. Louis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Akon?
- Akon is an Aries: born April 16, 1973, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox.
- What is Akon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1973 birth.
- What time was Akon born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Akon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the April 16, 1973 birth date.
- What is Akon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 16, 1973 birth date.
- Where is Akon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Akon's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
