Billy Idol
Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad; November 30, 1955, Stanmore, United Kingdom, 16:00), aged 70, is an English singer. Best-known releases include Rebel Yell, Cyberpunk and Whiplash Smile.
Billy Idol’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Billy
Billy Idol’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood 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
The SSA recorded 5,769 American boys and 50 girls named Billy in 1955: 69th among boys and 1,424th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Billy’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name William Michael Albert Broad, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
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Soul Urge · closeness
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Personality · self-directed
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
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
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Rose-gold · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Billy apart
Winston Churchill (1874) and Ben Stiller (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Billy, according to the stars
Core essence
Billy is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Billy 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, 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 seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Billy you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Billy creates
How Billy 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. Billy 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: 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Billy Idol
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stanmore on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Stanmore at 16:00, Billy Idol’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Stanmore that night
Computed for 51.62°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Stanmore at the birth hour: Deneb of Cygnus, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −38.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Stanmore on any night.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, had already set; the Sun sat 1° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- William Michael Albert Broad
- Known as
- Billy Idol
- Born in
- Stanmore, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Billy Idol'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 Billy's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Lunar Star 太陰 in 卯
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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 →Billy Idol at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Billy Idol's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Billy Idol was born on November 30, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Billy Idol's birth date, November 30, 1955, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Billy’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Billy Idol's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Moon in the 1st house, Mercury in the 7th house and Jupiter in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Billy Idol's timed chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Billy Idol combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
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.
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
MarssextileJupiterseparating · 0.0° orb
Billy’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenussextileMarsapplying · 0.4° orb
Billy’s affections open doors for their drive.
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 0.4° orb
Billy’s affections flow straight into their growth.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.8° orb
MarssquareUranusapplying · 1.1° orb
VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 1.3° orb
JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 1.6° orb
MarsconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 1.7° orb
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 2.0° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 2.2° orb
MarssextilePlutoseparating · 2.4° orb
JupiterconjunctionPlutoseparating · 2.4° orb
UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 2.7° orb
SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 3.2° orb
MercurytrineUranusseparating · 3.4° orb
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 4.5° orb
SuntrineUranusseparating · 5.6° orb
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 5.6° orb
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 6.7° orb
SaturntrineUranusapplying · 6.7° orb
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Billy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAquarius 1°42′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°41′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 4°02′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 6°07′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 29°26′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.6°
- Chiron square Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.2°
- Ceres square Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros square Uranus 1.9°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.3°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.4°
- Eros conjunction Mars 3.0°
Billy’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Moon, Jupiter; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the fourth house; 7 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto8 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Billy’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
Billy’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 7 | Moon | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 1 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Leo | Sun in Sagittarius, house 7 | Uranus, Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 7 | Jupiter | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 8 | Neptune | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 3 | Mars, Saturn | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Virgo, house 4 | Sun, Mercury | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 6 | Venus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 3 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 5 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 6 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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- Tom Hulce1953
- Layne Staley1967
- Ernie Sabella1949
- Tommy Lee1962
Born in United Kingdom
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Born in Goat years
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Also born on November 30
- Winston Churchill1874
- Ben Stiller1965
- Kaley Cuoco1985
- Tayari Jones1970
- Ian Hecox1987
- Kristi Noem1971
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jamie KennedyAmerican actor and comedian
- Chris KirkpatrickAmerican singer and dancer
- Penn JilletteAmerican magician and actor (born 1955)
Other Sagittarius Goat charts
- Shin Yu-naSouth Korean singer and rapper
- Criss AngelAmerican illusionist (born 1967)
- Judd ApatowAmerican comedian and filmmaker (born 1967)
- Jenelle EvansAmerican television personality
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Charles MeltonAmerican actor (born 1991)
- Eric RobertsAmerican actor (born 1956)
- Spencer PrattAmerican television personality
- Emily OsmentAmerican actress and singer
Other Gemini risings with documented times
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Famous people with Life Path 7
- Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate
- Frederick SoddyEnglish radiochemist
- Paul SabatierFrench chemist
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Billy’s cards
Computed from November 30, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Billy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73437 (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.
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Quick answers about Billy Idol’s chart
- How old is Billy Idol?
- Billy Idol is 70 years old, born November 30, 1955 in Stanmore, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Billy Idol?
- Billy Idol is a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1955, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
- What is Billy Idol's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1955 birth.
- What time was Billy Idol born?
- 16:00 local time in Stanmore, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Billy Idol's rising sign?
- Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 16:00 birth time in Stanmore, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall is Billy Idol?
- Billy Idol is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Billy Idol's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Billy Idol's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 1°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Billy Idol's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 29°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Billy Idol's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Moon, Jupiter; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
