Aya Nakamura
Aya Nakamura (born May 10, 1995, Bamako, Mali, 15:30), aged 31, is a Malian-French singer. Best-known releases include Aya, DNK and Nakamura. Nakamura's honours include Victoires de la Musique – Female artist of the year, 22nd annual NRJ Music Awards and OkayAfrica 100 Women.
Aya Nakamura’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Aya
Aya Nakamura’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Aya in the U.S.?
#644
US rank in 2025
~7,987
Americans share it since 1972
2024
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1995, Aya came 2,282nd, carried by 58 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Aya’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Aya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1995, 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 Aya apart
Aya Nakamura took the OkayAfrica 100 Women in 2019, at 24.
The working life starts in 2014, at 19.
The family line: married Niska and RK.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Aya Nakamura: Malian emigrants to France, Warner Music France artists and Musicians from Seine-Saint-Denis.
The same date carries Ellyes Skhiri. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- 22nd annual NRJ Music Awards (2020), OkayAfrica 100 Women (2019) and Victoires de la Musique, Female artist of the year (2024)
- Working from
- 2014
- Citizenship
- France and Mali
- Languages
- French and Bambara
- Wikipedia editions
- 44
What the chart says
Aya, according to the stars
Core essence
Aya is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Aya is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Aya is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Aya needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Aya wants to be loved
Aya 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 Aya creates
How Aya makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Aya creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Aya is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Aya 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Aya fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Aya's birth date. Working below.
Where Aya sits
Six lines
Aya’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Aya Nakamura
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bamako on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Bamako at 15:30, Aya Nakamura’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Bamako that night
Computed for 12.65°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Bamako at the birth hour: Betelgeuse of Orion, within 6.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 12.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 77% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -46° below the horizon.
What Aya's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 酉.
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Mars · Grand trine · 2 planets at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Aya Nakamura's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What Taurus means →Wood Pig
Wood PigGives more than it gets.
Aya Nakamura was born on May 10, 1995, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Aya Nakamura's birth date, May 10, 1995, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Aya’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Aya Nakamura's timed chart: Venus in the 7th house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Aya Nakamura's timed chart is Moon opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Aya Nakamura combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Aya’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonoppositionSaturnseparating · 0.4° orb
Aya’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
UranussextilePlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Aya’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
VenustrineMarsapplying · 1.3° orb
Aya’s affections flow straight into their drive.
MercuryoppositionJupiterapplying · 2.3° orb
SunsextileSaturnapplying · 2.7° orb
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 2.9° orb
SuntrineMoonseparating · 3.1° orb
VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 3.2° orb
SaturnsextileNeptuneapplying · 3.3° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.0° orb
SunsquareMarsapplying · 4.2° orb
UranusconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.0° orb
MarssquarePlutoapplying · 5.8° orb
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Aya’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 20°03′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 14°32′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 10°11′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 5°40′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 14°19′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Sun 0.5°
- Eros square Mercury 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 2.2°
- Chiron conjunction Moon 2.5°
- Eros square Jupiter 3.0°
Aya’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune8 pts
disposes Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Moon; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Aya’s chart
Kite · Sun, Moon, Neptune, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Yod onto Mars · Saturn, Neptune, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Moon quincunx Venus 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.8°
- Moon semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.8°
Aya’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libra | Venus in Aries, house 7 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 2 | Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 3 | Jupiter | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 6 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aquarius, house 5 | Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Capricorn, house 4 | Saturn | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 11 | Venus | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Aries, house 7 | Sun | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Gemini, house 9 | Mercury | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 8 | Mars | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Gemini, house 9 | Moon | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Aya
Ellyes Skhiri was born on May 10, 1995 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 104 catalog stars stood above Bamako, at 12.6°N that night, with Betelgeuse nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Aya’s cards
Computed from May 10, 1995. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Aya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q37793136 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Mathis.aclr, CC0, 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 Aya Nakamura.
Quick answers about Aya Nakamura’s chart
- How old is Aya Nakamura?
- Aya Nakamura is 31 years old, born May 10, 1995 in Bamako, Mali.
- What zodiac sign is Aya Nakamura?
- Aya Nakamura is a Taurus: born May 10, 1995, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
- What is Aya Nakamura's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 10, 1995 birth.
- What time was Aya Nakamura born?
- 15:30 local time in Bamako, Mali, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Aya Nakamura's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 15:30 birth time in Bamako, Mali (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Aya Nakamura?
- Aya Nakamura is 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Aya Nakamura's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Aya Nakamura's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 20°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Aya Nakamura's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 14°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Aya Nakamura's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
