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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Alicia
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 1881
1984
its peak year
Alicia ranked 46th among girls and 2,338th among boys in 1981, the year of this birth, with 5,855 American girls and 21 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alicia’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Alicia Augello Cook, not the name they published under.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alicia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1980, 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 Alicia apart
Alicia Keys took the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2002, at 21.
Professional Performing Arts School and Columbia University shaped the training.
Alicia Keys was born to Teresa Augello and Craig Cook.
The same date carries Chad Michael Murray. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Professional Performing Arts School and Columbia University
- Instruments
- piano and voice
- Awards
- Time 100 (2017), Ambassador of Conscience Award (2017) and Grammy Award for Song of the Year (2002)
- Working from
- 1985
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 98
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. Working below.
Where Alicia sits
Six lines
Alicia’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Alicia Keys
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hell's Kitchen 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 Hell's Kitchen that night
Computed for 40.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Hell's Kitchen at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.8° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 17% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Alicia Augello Cook
- Known as
- Alicia Keys
- Born in
- Hell's Kitchen, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alicia Keys: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alicia's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Scorpio 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
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
stableSunsquareSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.6° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.7° to 3.2° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 5.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 22°45′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 5°42′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 22°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 0°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.7°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.4°
Alicia’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Alicia’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.6°
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 and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Hell's Kitchen, at 40.8°N, nothing below −49.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Alicia
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Born in United States
- Chad Michael MurrayAmerican actor
- Elizabeth RodriguezAmerican actress
- Jared KushnerAmerican businessman and real estate investor (born 1981)
- Jake GyllenhaalAmerican actor
- PitbullAmerican rapper
- Christina AguileraAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
More charts like Alicia’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Cao FeiChinese sculptor and installation artist
- Nancy SilvertonAmerican baker
- Walter HoodAmerican architect
Born in Monkey years
- Aleksandar PavlovićGerman footballer (born 2004)
- Mateo ChávezMexican footballer (born 2004)
- Robin RisserFrench footballer (born 2004)
Also born on January 1
- Hailee Steinfeld1996
- Kendrick Lamar1987
- Rivelino1946
- Ludacris1977
- Chad Michael Murray1981
- Charlie Munger1924
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Madison KeysUS American tennis player
- Jack DraperBritish tennis player (born 2001)
- Jack ChampionAmerican actor (born 2004)
Other Capricorn Monkey charts
- Dave GrohlAmerican rock musician
- Chris HughesEnglish model, television personality and former footballer
- Jared KushnerAmerican businessman and real estate investor (born 1981)
- Rod StewartEnglish singer and songwriter (born 1945)
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Alexander PonomarenkoSoviet-Russian entrepreneur
- Garrett CampCanadian entrepreneur
- Nguyen Thi Phuong ThaoVietnamese businesswoman
- Franz KafkaBohemian writer from Prague
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Willie GeistAmerican television personality (born 1975)
- Brian HallisayAmerican actor
- Mia FarrowAmerican actress
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Alicia’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alicia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q121507 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Alicia Keys's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alicia Keys's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
