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Axl Rose

Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose Jr.; February 6, 1962, Lafayette, United States), aged 64, is an American singer-songwriter.

Axl Rose’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Axl Rose’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#1123

US rank in 2025

~4,413

Americans share it since 1988

2019

its peak year

US records hold Axl from 1988 onward, though not for 1962 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2019 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Axl’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name William Bruce Rose Jr., not the name they published under.

33

Expression · lifting other people

2

Soul Urge · closeness

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Axl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 Axl apart

Ronald Reagan (1911) and Bob Marley (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Axl, according to the stars

Core essence

Axl is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Axl is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Axl is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Axl needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Axl wants to be loved

Axl wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Axl be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Axl creates

How Axl makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Axl creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Axl is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Axl is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

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. Axl 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 Axl's birth date. Working below.

Where Axl sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Axl

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Axl

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Axl

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Axl

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Axl

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Axl

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Axl Rose

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

Computed for 40.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over Lafayette at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.4° above the horizon in Auriga.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Lafayette sits at 40.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

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 32° below the horizon, Moon down and 6% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born as
William Bruce Rose Jr.
Known as
Axl Rose
Born in
Lafayette, United States
Lives in
Malibu

Wikidata records Malibu as Axl Rose's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

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

How unusual Axl's chart is

Chart pattern score

69 / 100 · Unusual

6-planet stellium in Aquarius · 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.

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Axl Rose in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Axl Rose's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 6, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Axl Rose was born on February 6, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Axl Rose's birth date, February 6, 1962, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Axl’s chart

Axl’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 18° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.3° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.9° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.4° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.1° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.6° orbSun in Aquarius · 17°26′☉17°Moon in Pisces · 11°24′☽11°Mercury in Aquarius · 14°52′ · retrograde☿℞14°Venus in Aquarius · 19°55′♀19°Mars in Aquarius · 3°41′♂3°Jupiter in Aquarius · 19°01′♃19°Saturn in Aquarius · 4°00′♄4°Uranus in Leo · 28°59′ · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Scorpio · 13°28′♆13°Pluto in Virgo · 9°23′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Axl’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.4° orb

    Axl’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.8° to 2.0° orb

    Axl’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.2° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.4° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.8° to 6.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.4° to 5.7° orb

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

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed8 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 5°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 16°51′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 28°39′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 28°30′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Uranus 0.3°
  • Ceres square Sun 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 1.8°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.0°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.3°

Axl’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Axl’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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.

  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.6°

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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes

Axl’s cards

Computed from February 6, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Axl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11885 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Axl Rose at Wikipedia, axlrose.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Axl Rose.

Quick answers about Axl Rose’s chart

How old is Axl Rose?
Axl Rose is 64 years old, born February 6, 1962 in Lafayette, United States.
What zodiac sign is Axl Rose?
Axl Rose is an Aquarius: born February 6, 1962, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Axl Rose's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 6, 1962 birth.
How tall is Axl Rose?
Axl Rose is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Axl Rose's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Axl Rose's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Axl Rose's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Axl Rose's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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