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Beyoncé

Beyoncé (born September 4, 1981, Houston, United States, 21:47), aged 45, is an American singer-songwriter. Best-known releases include I Am… Sasha Fierce, B'Day and Dangerously in Love. Beyoncé's honours include Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance.

Beyoncé’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

Your match with Beyoncé

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Beyoncé’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

Beyoncé’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1981, 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 Beyoncé apart

Liz Greene (1946) and Tayshia Adams (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Beyoncé, according to the stars

Core essence

Beyoncé 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 Beyoncé is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Beyoncé 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 Beyoncé 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 Beyoncé wants to be loved

Beyoncé wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Beyoncé gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Beyoncé creates

How Beyoncé makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Beyoncé creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Beyoncé is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Beyoncé is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Beyoncé fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Beyoncé's birth date. Working below.

Where Beyoncé sits

Six lines

Beyoncé’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Beyoncé

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Beyoncé

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Beyoncé

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Beyoncé

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Beyoncé

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Beyoncé

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Beyoncé

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Houston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above Houston at 21:47, Beyoncé’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Houston that night

Computed for 29.76°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Houston at the birth hour: Albireo of Cygnus, within 2.5° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

Houston sits at 29.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −60.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 37% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Houston, United States
Lives in
Bel Air

Wikidata records Bel Air as Beyoncé'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 Beyoncé's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Enforcer 廉貞, The Treasurer 天府 in 戌

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 2/4

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

76 / 100 · Rare

5-planet stellium in Libra · 1 unaspected planet · A bowl chart

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

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Beyoncé's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Beyoncé was born on September 4, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Beyoncé's birth date, September 4, 1981, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Beyoncé’s chart

Beyoncé’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.9° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.4° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 5.2° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 5.4° orbSun in Virgo · 12°27′ · house 6☉12°Moon in Scorpio · 26°44′ · house 8☽26°Mercury in Libra · 3°17′ · house 7☿3°Venus in Libra · 20°48′ · house 7♀20°Mars in Leo · 1°56′ · house 5♂1°Jupiter in Libra · 12°29′ · house 7♃12°Saturn in Libra · 9°06′ · house 7♄9°Uranus in Scorpio · 26°29′ · house 8♅26°Neptune in Sagittarius · 22°05′ · house 9♆22°Pluto in Libra · 22°40′ · house 7♇22°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCAri 28°59′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCLib 28°59′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCap 18°56′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCnc 18°56′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantAries
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoonconjunctionUranusseparating · 0.3° orb

    Beyoncé’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.6° orb

    Beyoncé’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 1.3° orb

    Beyoncé’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercurysextileMarsseparating · 1.4° orb

  • VenusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 1.9° orb

  • JupiterconjunctionSaturnseparating · 3.4° orb

  • MoontrineMarsapplying · 5.2° orb

  • MarstrineUranusseparating · 5.4° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Beyoncé’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 22°50′ · House 2

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 17°47′ · House 6

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 17°07′ · House 2

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 23°13′ · House 4

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°48′ · House 8

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Pluto 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Moon 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Venus 2.4°

Beyoncé’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Uranus; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Aries; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Beyoncé’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, PlutoThree 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 semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
  • Moon semi-square Jupiter 0.8°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.0°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 1.4°

Beyoncé’s houses

Beyoncé’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1AriesMars in Leo, house 5emptyself, body, how you arrive
2TaurusVenus in Libra, house 7emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3GeminiMercury in Libra, house 7emptymind, siblings, the local world
4CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 8emptyhome, family, roots
5LeoSun in Virgo, house 6Marscreativity, romance, play
6VirgoMercury in Libra, house 7Sunwork, habits, health
7LibraVenus in Libra, house 7Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Plutopartnership, marriage, open rivals
8ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 7Moon, Uranusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 7Neptunebelief, travel, higher learning
10CapricornSaturn in Libra, house 7emptycareer, reputation, public life
11AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 8emptyfriends, community, the future
12PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 9emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Beyoncé’s family here

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Beyoncé’s cards

Computed from September 4, 1981. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Beyoncé’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q36153 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Beyoncé at Wikipedia, beyonce.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, 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 Beyoncé.

Quick answers about Beyoncé’s chart

How old is Beyoncé?
Beyoncé is 45 years old, born September 4, 1981 in Houston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Beyoncé?
Beyoncé is a Virgo: born September 4, 1981, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What is Beyoncé's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 4, 1981 birth.
What time was Beyoncé born?
21:47 local time in Houston, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Beyoncé's rising sign?
Aries rising, calculated from the documented 21:47 birth time in Houston, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Beyoncé's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Beyoncé's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 22°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Beyoncé's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Beyoncé's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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