Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys (born Alicia Augello Cook; January 1, 1981, Hell's Kitchen, United States), aged 45, is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Best-known releases include Songs in A Minor, The Diary of Alicia Keys and As I Am. Keys's honours include Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Grammy Award for Best R&B Album.
Alicia Keys’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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Alicia Keys’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Alicia in the U.S.?
#460
US rank in 2025
~231,497
Americans share it since 1880
1984
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Alicia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Alicia, according to the stars
Core essence
Alicia is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Alicia 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Alicia feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Alicia needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Alicia wants to be loved
Alicia 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 Alicia and watch them fall for you again.
How Alicia creates
How Alicia makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Alicia creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Alicia is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Alicia is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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. Alicia 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 Alicia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Alicia Keys's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Alicia Keys was born on January 1, 1981, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Alicia Keys's birth date, January 1, 1981, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Alicia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alicia Keys' date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alicia Keys combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Alicia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alicia Keys, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Scorpio 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.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.1° orb
Alicia’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.5° to 1.1° orb
Alicia’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Alicia’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.2° to 2.1° orb
Alicia’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb
Alicia’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.6° to 3.2° orb
Alicia’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.7° to 3.2° orb
Alicia’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssextileUranus2.6° to 3.3° orb
Alicia’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 5.7° orb
Alicia’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 1.4° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.9° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 3.9° to 15.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Alicia’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Alicia building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 22°45′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Alicia is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCapricorn 5°42′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Alicia is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 22°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Alicia is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 0°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Alicia is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.7°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.4°
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°).
Alicia’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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Alicia is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Alicia’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alicia Keys, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Alicia’s family here
One relative of Alicia Keys also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Alicia
Chad Michael Murray was born on January 1, 1981 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Alicia’s cards
Every card is computed from January 1, 1981, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alicia Keys, 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
Alicia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q121507, 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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alicia Keys at Wikipedia, aliciakeys.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 Alicia Keys.
Quick answers about Alicia Keys’s chart
- How old is Alicia Keys?
- Alicia Keys is 45 years old, born January 1, 1981 in Hell's Kitchen, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Alicia Keys?
- Alicia Keys is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1981, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey.
- What is Alicia Keys's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1981 birth.
- What time was Alicia Keys 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 Alicia Keys's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 1, 1981 birth date.
- What is Alicia Keys's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 1, 1981 birth date.
- Where is Alicia Keys's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alicia Keys's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
