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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, United States; died 1987), was an American artist, film director, and producer. Warhol is best remembered for Campbell's Soup Cans II, Shot Marilyns and Marilyn Diptyque.

Andy Warhol’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Andy Warhol’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Andy in the U.S.?

#565

US rank in 2025

~95,492

Americans share it since 1880

2005

its peak year

Andy ranked 359th in 1928, the year of this birth, with 258 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Andy’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Andrew Warhola Jr., not the name they published under.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

5

Soul Urge · freedom

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on W (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Andy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

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 1928, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Andy apart

The shelf Andy Warhol is read from: Marilyn Diptyque, Campbell's Soup Cans II and Shot Marilyns.

The classrooms behind this chart: Schenley High School and Carnegie Mellon School of Art.

Cause of death is recorded as heart arrhythmia; the grave is at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery.

Andy Warhol was born to Julia Warhola and Andrej Warhola.

Alexander Fleming (1881) and Lucille Ball (1911) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Marilyn Diptyque, Campbell's Soup Cans II and Shot Marilyns
Educated at
Schenley High School, Carnegie Mellon School of Art and Carnegie Mellon University
Cause of death
heart arrhythmia
Buried at
St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English and American English
Wikipedia editions
179

What the chart says

Andy, according to the stars

Core essence

Andy is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Andy is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Andy runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Andy needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Andy wants to be loved

Andy wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Andy openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Andy creates

How Andy makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Andy creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Andy is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Andy 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Andy is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Andy's birth date. Working below.

Where Andy sits

Six lines

Andy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Andy

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Andy

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Andy

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Andy

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Andy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Andy

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Andy Warhol

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh that night

Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pittsburgh was Rastaban, in Draco, 75.6° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.4°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 −49.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon down and 69% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born as
Andrew Warhola Jr.
Known as
Andy Warhol
Born in
Pittsburgh, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1987.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Andy Warhol: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Andy's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Leo · Grand trine · No Air planets

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.

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The quick version

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Andy Warhol's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 6, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Earth Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Andy Warhol's birth date, August 6, 1928, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Andy’s chart

Andy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.4° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.3° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.5° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4.4° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.4° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 4.5° orbSun in Leo · 13°54′☉13°Moon in Aries · 17°00′☽17°Mercury in Leo · 3°37′☿3°Venus in Leo · 23°52′♀23°Mars in Taurus · 28°23′♂28°Jupiter in Taurus · 9°30′♃9°Saturn in Sagittarius · 12°35′ · retrograde♄℞12°Uranus in Aries · 7°09′ · retrograde♅℞7°Neptune in Leo · 28°21′♆28°Pluto in Cancer · 17°24′♇17°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Andy’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.8° to 1.8° orb

    Andy’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.5° to 4.5° orb

    Andy’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars4.2° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.9° to 6.9° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.4° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.5° to 13.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire7 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Andy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 10°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 16°13′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 16°12′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 17°50′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.4°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.6°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.2°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.2°

Andy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Andy’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.

  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Andy’s cards

Computed from August 6, 1928. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Andy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5603 (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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Andy Warhol at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Andy Warhol.

Quick answers about Andy Warhol’s chart

What zodiac sign was Andy Warhol?
Andy Warhol was a Leo: born August 6, 1928, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Andy Warhol's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1928 birth.
What was Andy Warhol's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Andy Warhol's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Andy Warhol's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Andy Warhol's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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