Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand (born Barbara Joan Streisand; April 24, 1942, Brooklyn, United States, 05:08), aged 84, is an American singer and actress. Streisand is best known for Funny Girl, A Star Is Born and Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born). Streisand's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Barbra Streisand’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Barbra
Barbra Streisand’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Barbra in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~7,758
Americans share it since 1882
1966
its peak year
Barbra ranked 860th in 1942, the year of this birth, with 80 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barbra’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Barbara Joan Streisand, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on B (2) 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
Barbra’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, 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 Barbra apart
Shirley MacLaine (1934) and Kelly Clarkson (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Barbra, according to the stars
Core essence
Barbra 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 Barbra 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, Barbra needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Barbra needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Barbra wants to be loved
Barbra wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Barbra, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Barbra creates
How Barbra makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Barbra creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Barbra is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Barbra is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Barbra scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Barbra's birth date. Working below.
Where Barbra sits
Six lines
Barbra’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Barbra Streisand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Brooklyn at 05:08, Barbra Streisand’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, at the documented birth time.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at the birth hour, 86.4° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 56% lit at first quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Barbara Joan Streisand
- Known as
- Barbra Streisand
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
- Lives in
- Malibu
Wikidata records Malibu as Barbra Streisand'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 Barbra's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Minister 天相 in 丑
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Taurus · A leaning bowl
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Barbra Streisand's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What Taurus means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Barbra Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Barbra Streisand's birth date, April 24, 1942, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Barbra’s chart
- The Ascendant is Aries, from the documented birth time, with no planet in the four angular houses.
- The tightest major aspect in Barbra Streisand's timed chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Barbra Streisand combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Barbra’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
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 0.1° orb
Barbra’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 0.6° orb
Barbra’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 0.6° orb
Barbra’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 1.2° orb
MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 1.3° orb
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 2.4° orb
MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 2.5° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 4.6° orb
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 4.6° orb
SunsextileMarsseparating · 4.7° orb
UranussextilePlutoapplying · 4.7° orb
MoonconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Barbra’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironLeo 8°25′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 14°02′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 13°19′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°11′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 15°57′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Ascendant 0.1°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.6°
- Chiron conjunction Moon 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Moon 2.6°
- Eros opposition Moon 2.7°
Barbra’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Barbra’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, 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.
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.0°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Moon quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Moon quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Moon biquintile Venus 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus quintile Saturn 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Moon semi-square Neptune 2.0°
Barbra’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 3 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 12 | Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 2 | Mars, Jupiter | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 5 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 2 | Moon, Pluto | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 2 | Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 12 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 3 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 2 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 6 | Venus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Barbra’s cards
Computed from April 24, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barbra’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4636 (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 NIH Image Gallery from Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barbra Streisand at Wikipedia, barbrastreisand.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barbra Streisand.
Quick answers about Barbra Streisand’s chart
- How old is Barbra Streisand?
- Barbra Streisand is 84 years old, born April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Barbra Streisand?
- Barbra Streisand is a Taurus: born April 24, 1942, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
- What is Barbra Streisand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1942 birth.
- What time was Barbra Streisand born?
- 05:08 local time in Brooklyn, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Barbra Streisand's rising sign?
- Aries rising, calculated from the documented 05:08 birth time in Brooklyn, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Barbra Streisand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Barbra Streisand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 8°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Barbra Streisand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 15°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Barbra Streisand's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
