Barack Obama
Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 19:24), aged 65 is a 44th President of the United States.
Barack Obama (born 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States. Obama has held office as member of the State Senate of Illinois and United States senator. Obama's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Time Person of the Year and King Abdulaziz Medal.
Barack Obama’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Barack
Barack Obama’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Barack in the U.S.?
#10858
US rank in 2025
~312
Americans share it since 2007
2009
its peak year
Barack is in US records from 2007, but 1961 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2009.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barack’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Barack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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 1961, 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 Barack apart
The record Barack Obama is measured by: A Promised Land.
Barack Obama was taught at Punahou School and Occidental College.
On the family side, Barack Obama was born to Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr., married Michelle Obama and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Barack Obama under African-American state legislators in Illinois, Activists from Hawaii and American civil rights lawyers.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) and Antonio Valencia (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- A Promised Land
- Educated at
- Punahou School, Occidental College and Noelani Elementary School
- Awards
- Nobel Peace Prize (2009), Time Person of the Year (2012) and Profile in Courage Award (2017)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording and NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Indonesian
- Wikipedia editions
- 340
What the chart says
Barack, according to the stars
Core essence
Barack is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Barack 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, Barack processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Barack needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Barack wants to be loved
Barack wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Barack gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Barack creates
How Barack makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Barack creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Barack 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Barack is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Barack 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 Barack's birth date. Working below.
Where Barack sits
Six lines
Barack’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Barack Obama
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children at 19:24, Barack Obama’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children that night
Computed for 21.30°N, at the documented birth time.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children at the birth hour, 83.6° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Of the 78 catalog stars above the horizon, Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest.
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children sits at 21.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 32% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, United States
- Lives in
- Kalorama
Wikidata records Kalorama as Barack Obama's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Barack'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 火六局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet 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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Barack Obama's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.
What Leo means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Holds the room together.
Barack Obama's birth date, August 4, 1961, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Barack’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Barack Obama's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Uranus in the 7th house and Neptune in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Barack Obama's timed chart is Moon sextile Mercury, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Barack Obama combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Barack’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
MoonsextileMercuryseparating · 1.0° orb
Barack’s feelings open doors for their mind.
MercuryoppositionJupiterseparating · 1.5° orb
Barack’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.6° orb
Barack’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineJupiterseparating · 2.5° orb
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 3.6° orb
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb
JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.5° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 6.3° orb
VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 6.8° orb
MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Barack’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 5°19′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°24′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 19°06′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 22°02′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°33′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.5°
- Eros square Ascendant 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron square Moon 2.0°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.2°
- Ceres square Ascendant 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Ascendant 2.5°
Barack’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Mars, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Uranus; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Barack’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.3°
- Moon semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
Barack’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 7 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 10 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 8 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 6 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 7 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 5 | Venus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 7 | Sun, Mercury, Uranus | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 7 | Mars, Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 6 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 8 | Neptune | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 12 | Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Barack’s cards
Computed from August 4, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76 (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 Long-form Certificate of Live Birth, State of Hawaii, released 2011. 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 Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barack Obama at Wikipedia, barackobama.com, IMDb, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barack Obama.
Quick answers about Barack Obama’s chart
- How old is Barack Obama?
- Barack Obama is 65 years old, born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Barack Obama?
- Barack Obama is a Leo: born August 4, 1961, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time.
- What is Barack Obama's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 4, 1961 birth.
- What time was Barack Obama born?
- 19:24 local time in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, per Long-form Certificate of Live Birth, State of Hawaii, released 2011 (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Barack Obama's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 19:24 birth time in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Barack Obama?
- Barack Obama is 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Barack Obama's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Barack Obama's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Barack Obama's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 20°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Barack Obama's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Mars, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
