B. B. King
B. B. King (born September 16, 1925, Itta Bena, United States; died 2015), was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. King's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Blues Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
B. B. King’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with B. B. King
B. B. King’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
What B. B. King’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on B (2) and closes on B (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
B. B. King’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets B. B. King apart
Lee Kuan Yew (1923) and Amy Poehler (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
B. B. King, according to the stars
Core essence
B. B. King notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of B. B. King is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, B. B. King 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 B. B. King needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How B. B. King wants to be loved
B. B. King wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with B. B. King even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How B. B. King creates
How B. B. King makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. B. B. King creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: B. B. King is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. B. B. King is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means B. B. King channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from B. B. King's birth date. Working below.
Where B. B. King sits
Six lines
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Itta Bena 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 Itta Bena that night
Computed for 33.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Itta Bena was Albireo, in Cygnus, 83.7° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Itta Bena sits at 33.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Itta Bena at all: they sit past the −56.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 23° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual B.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 2 unaspected planets · 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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
B. B. King's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 16, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
B. B. King was born on September 16, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
B. B. King's birth date, September 16, 1925, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in B. B. King’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in B. B. King's date-only chart is Sun opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- B. B. King combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
B. B. King’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
B. B. King’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.0° to 5.8° orb
B. B. King’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.9° to 1.2° orb
B. B. King’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.8° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.9° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.4° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
B. B. King’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 1°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 16°44′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 15°33′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°26′ (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 Venus 0.3°
- Ceres square Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.8°
B. B. King’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in B. B. King’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 1.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.3°
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B. B. King’s cards
Computed from September 16, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
B. B. King’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188969 (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.
The same B. B. King at Wikipedia, bbking.com, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about B. B. King’s chart
- What zodiac sign was B. B. King?
- B. B. King was a Virgo: born September 16, 1925, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was B. B. King's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 16, 1925 birth.
- What was B. B. King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was B. B. King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was B. B. King's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was B. B. King's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
