Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy (born November 28, 1929, Detroit, United States), aged 96, is an American record producer, founder of Motown Records. Gordy's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Trustees Award.
Berry Gordy’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Berry
Berry Gordy’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Berry in the U.S.?
#12290
US rank in 2025
~6,107
Americans share it since 1880
1963
its peak year
Berry ranked 819th among boys and 3,420th among girls in 1929, the year of this birth, with 63 American boys and 8 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Berry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Berry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets Berry apart
Anna Nicole Smith (1967) and Alan Ritchson (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Berry, according to the stars
Core essence
Berry is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Berry is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Berry feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Berry needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Berry wants to be loved
Berry 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 Berry even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Berry creates
How Berry 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. Berry 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: Berry is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Berry 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Berry has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Berry's birth date. Working below.
Where Berry sits
Six lines
Berry’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Berry Gordy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Berry's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Berry Gordy at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Berry Gordy's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 28, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Berry Gordy was born on November 28, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Berry Gordy's birth date, November 28, 1929, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Berry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Berry Gordy's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Berry Gordy combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Berry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb
Berry’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Berry’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.2° to 1.8° orb
Berry’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.3° to 0.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.3° to 1.1° orb
stableSuntrineUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars1.2° to 1.5° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.3° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter4.3° to 5.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Berry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 10°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 13°24′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 19°24′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 2°41′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.1°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.9°
Berry’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Berry’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree 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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
More people like Berry
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- Ray Charles1930
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Born in United States
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- Paul SalyersAmerican Kentucky poet laureate
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More charts like Berry’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Willa CatherAmerican writer
- Julia WolfeAmerican composer (born 1958)
- Paul GoldbergerAmerican author, architecture critic and lecturer
Born in Snake years
- Bernardo BertolucciItalian film director and screenwriter
- June AllysonAmerican actress
- Ryan MurphyAmerican screenwriter (born 1965)
Also born on November 28
- Anna Nicole Smith1967
- Alan Ritchson1982
- Trey Songz1984
- Colman Domingo1969
- Michael Bennet1964
- Ryan Kwanten1976
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Trey LanceAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Rashawn SlaterAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Kayode AwosikaAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Sagittarius Snake charts
- Edward G. RobinsonRomanian-American actor
- Shirley HendersonBritish actress
- Nils Gustaf DalénSwedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist
- Charles Scott SherringtonEnglish footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
Other Radiant Healers
- Sydney BrennerSouth African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
- Annie ErnauxFrench writer (born 1940)
- May-Britt MoserNorwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
- Hendrik LorentzDutch physicist
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Mohammed Hussein Al AmoudiSaudi businessman and billionaire
- Vladimir LisinRussian businessman
- Chung Mong-joonSouth Korean businessman and politician
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Berry’s cards
Computed from November 28, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Berry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q355288 (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.
Portrait by Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Berry Gordy at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Berry Gordy.
Quick answers about Berry Gordy’s chart
- How old is Berry Gordy?
- Berry Gordy is 96 years old, born November 28, 1929 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Berry Gordy?
- Berry Gordy is a Sagittarius: born November 28, 1929, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Berry Gordy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 28, 1929 birth.
- What is Berry Gordy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Berry Gordy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Berry Gordy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Berry Gordy's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
