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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~312
Americans share it since 1880
2009
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Barack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Barack Obama's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
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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
Barack’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb
Barack’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 3.6° orb
Barack’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb
Barack’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.5° orb
Barack’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 6.3° orb
Barack’s mind grinds against their imagination.
VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 6.8° orb
Barack’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 7.0° orb
Barack’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 5°19′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Barack absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 20°24′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Barack is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosScorpio 19°06′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Barack is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 22°02′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Barack carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 20°33′ · House 7
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. Barack is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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°).
Barack’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Barack 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 Barack’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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 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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 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
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Gold Au
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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 data comes from
Barack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Long-form Certificate of Live Birth, State of Hawaii, released 2011. 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.
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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- 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 from the August 4, 1961 birth date.
- What is Barack Obama's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 4, 1961 birth time.
- 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.
