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Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan (born March 17, 1967, Elk Grove Village, United States, 17:41), aged 59, is an American musician. Best-known releases include TheFutureEmbrace.

Billy Corgan’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Billy Corgan’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Billy in the U.S.?

#1068

US rank in 2025

~389,665

Americans share it since 1880

1934

its peak year

In 1967, 3,984 American boys and 42 girls were registered Billy — 76th among boys and 1,784th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Billy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Billy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet

The record

What sets Billy apart

Nat King Cole (1919) and Kurt Russell (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Billy, according to the stars

Core essence

Billy feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Billy is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Billy 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 Billy needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Billy wants to be loved

Billy wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Billy creates

How Billy makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Billy creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Billy is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Billy is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Billy runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Billy's birth date. Working below.

Where Billy sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Billy

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Billy

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

PrivateExpressive
Billy

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Billy

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Billy

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Billy

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 Billy Corgan

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

Read from the sky above Elk Grove Village at 17:41, Billy Corgan’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Elk Grove Village that night

Computed for 42.00°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Elk Grove Village at the birth hour: Capella of Auriga, within 4.7° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

Elk Grove Village sits at 42.0°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 −48.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at first quarter, 37% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -3° down.

What Billy's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Commander 七殺 in 午

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 5/1

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · Mars retrograde

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.

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Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Billy Corgan's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.

What Pisces means →

Fire Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Billy Corgan was born on March 17, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Billy Corgan's birth date, March 17, 1967, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Billy’s chart

Billy’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 1.9° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.6° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSun in Pisces · 26°41′ · house 7☉26°Moon in Gemini · 10°53′ · house 10☽10°Mercury in Pisces · 4°33′ · house 7☿4°Venus in Aries · 27°03′ · house 8♀27°Mars in Scorpio · 2°39′ · house 3 · retrograde♂℞2°Jupiter in Cancer · 24°27′ · house 11 · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Aries · 1°44′ · house 8♄1°Uranus in Virgo · 22°12′ · house 1 · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Scorpio · 24°14′ · house 3 · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Virgo · 19°08′ · house 1 · retrograde♇℞19°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 23°49′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 23°49′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCGem 22°45′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSgr 22°45′

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 0.2° orb

    Billy’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • MercurytrineMarsseparating · 1.9° orb

    Billy’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • UranussextileNeptuneseparating · 2.0° orb

    Billy’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SuntrineJupiterseparating · 2.2° orb

  • JupitersextileUranusseparating · 2.2° orb

  • SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 2.5° orb

  • VenussquareJupiterseparating · 2.6° orb

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 3.1° orb

  • SunoppositionUranusseparating · 4.5° orb

  • SunconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.0° orb

  • VenusoppositionMarsapplying · 5.6° orb

  • MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 6.3° orb

  • SunoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 25°45′ · House 7

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 27°31′ · House 10

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 27°10′ · House 6

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 6°05′ · House 5

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°01′ · House 8

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Ceres square Sun 0.8°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 0.9°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 1.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Ascendant 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Moon 1.9°
  • Eros square Neptune 2.9°

Billy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury12 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun6 pts

    angular in the seventh house; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Billy’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun biquintile Mars 0.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 0.9°
  • Venus biquintile Uranus 1.1°
  • Moon semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Moon semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 1.5°

Billy’s houses

Billy’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Pisces, house 7Uranus, Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Aries, house 8emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 1Mars, Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Cancer, house 11emptyhome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Aries, house 8emptycreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 1emptywork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 3Sun, Mercurypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Scorpio, house 3Venus, Saturnshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Aries, house 8emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Pisces, house 7Mooncareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Gemini, house 10Jupiterfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Pisces, house 7emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Billy’s cards

Computed from March 17, 1967. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Billy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q311382 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Benutzer:Blankpage, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Billy Corgan at Wikipedia, 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 Billy Corgan.

Quick answers about Billy Corgan’s chart

How old is Billy Corgan?
Billy Corgan is 59 years old, born March 17, 1967 in Elk Grove Village, United States.
What zodiac sign is Billy Corgan?
Billy Corgan is a Pisces: born March 17, 1967, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What is Billy Corgan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 17, 1967 birth.
What time was Billy Corgan born?
17:41 local time in Elk Grove Village, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Billy Corgan's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 17:41 birth time in Elk Grove Village, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Billy Corgan's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Billy Corgan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 25°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Billy Corgan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Billy Corgan's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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