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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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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.
B. B. King’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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B. B. King in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for B. B. King, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
B. B. King’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.7° to 1.8° orb
B. B. King’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.8° orb
B. B. King’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.6° orb
B. B. King’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
B. B. King’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.9° to 6.4° orb
B. B. King’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: B. B. King may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 1°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. B. B. King is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosLeo 16°44′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has B. B. King loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaCancer 15°33′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. B. B. King is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. B. B. King is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.3°
- Ceres square Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
B. B. King’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: B. B. King is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in B. B. King’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for B. B. King, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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B. B. King’s cards
Every card is computed from September 16, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for B. B. King, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
B. B. King’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188969, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same B. B. King at Wikipedia, bbking.com, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- 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 time was B. B. King born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was B. B. King's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 16, 1925 birth date.
- What was B. B. King's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 16, 1925 birth date.
- 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.
