How old is Billy Joel?

Billy Joel is 77 years old, born May 9, 1949 in New York City, United States.

What zodiac sign is Billy Joel?

Billy Joel is a Taurus: born May 9, 1949, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.

What is Billy Joel's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 9, 1949 birth.

What time was Billy Joel born?

09:30 local time in New York City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What is Billy Joel's rising sign?

Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 09:30 birth time in New York City, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

How tall is Billy Joel?

Billy Joel is 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.

What is Billy Joel's Life Path number?

Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 9, 1949 birth date.

What is Billy Joel's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 9, 1949 birth time.

Where is Billy Joel's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 2°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Billy Joel's dominant planet?

Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Libra; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Billy Joel

Billy Joel (born May 9, 1949, New York City, United States, 09:30), aged 77, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949). Joel is best known for Tell Her About It, You May Be Right and The Stranger. Joel's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Johnny Mercer Award.

Billy Joel’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Billy Joel’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

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Billy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

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What sets Billy apart

Shaboozey (1995) and Willyrex (1993) 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 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 Billy 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, Billy cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Billy needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Billy wants to be loved

Billy wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Billy is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Billy creates

How Billy makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Billy creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Billy is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Billy is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Billy leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Billy is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Billy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Billy sits

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Intimate circleWide network

Billy

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

DeliberateSpontaneous

Billy

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive

Billy

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Billy

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

PracticalVisionary

Billy

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Billy

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Billy’s birth-sky starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 77.2° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 32.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Billy Joel's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Earth Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Billy Joel was born on May 9, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Billy Joel's birth date, May 9, 1949, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Billy’s chart

Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Billy Joel's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house and Neptune in the 4th house.
The tightest major aspect in Billy Joel's timed chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
Billy Joel combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.

Billy’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.

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Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCancer

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

Aspects, tightest first

SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 1.1° orb
Billy’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
Billy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 2.3° orb
Billy’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
MercurytrineNeptuneapplying · 3.0° orb
Billy’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 4.3° orb
Billy’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 4.4° orb
Billy’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussquareSaturnapplying · 4.9° orb
Billy’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssquareJupiterseparating · 5.1° orb
Billy’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.3° orb
Billy’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoontrineJupiterseparating · 5.6° orb
Billy’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 5.9° orb
Billy’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire2 of 10
Earth3 of 10
Air5 of 10
Water0 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed6 of 10
Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.

⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°14′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Billy building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLeo 17°43′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Billy is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAquarius 13°50′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Billy is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°27′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Billy is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°30′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Billy carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Chiron sextile Moon 0.3°
Eros opposition Pluto 0.4°
Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.5°
Ceres square Sun 0.9°
Eros trine Neptune 0.9°
Hygiea trine Mars 2.6°
Chiron opposition Mercury 2.7°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Billy’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ♀ Venus14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Libra; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Billy is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

How the score is built

Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Billy’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.

Sun biquintile Neptune 0.3°
Moon quincunx Mars 0.5°
Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.9°
Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.5°
Moon sesquiquadrate Venus 1.9°

Billy’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Cancer	Moon in Libra, house 4	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Leo	Sun in Taurus, house 11	Saturn, Pluto	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Virgo	Mercury in Gemini, house 12	empty	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Libra	Venus in Taurus, house 11	Moon, Neptune	home, family, roots
5	Scorpio	Pluto in Leo, house 2	empty	creativity, romance, play
6	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Aquarius, house 8	empty	work, habits, health
7	Capricorn	Saturn in Leo, house 2	empty	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Aquarius	Uranus in Gemini, house 12	Jupiter	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Pisces	Neptune in Libra, house 4	empty	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Aries	Mars in Taurus, house 11	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Taurus	Venus in Taurus, house 11	Sun, Venus, Mars	friends, community, the future
12	Gemini	Mercury in Gemini, house 12	Mercury, Uranus	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

Billy’s family here

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Billy’s cards

Every card is computed from May 9, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Hour

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Billy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q194333, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Billy Joel at Wikipedia, billyjoel.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

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Quick answers about Billy Joel’s chart

How old is Billy Joel?: Billy Joel is 77 years old, born May 9, 1949 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Billy Joel?: Billy Joel is a Taurus: born May 9, 1949, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
What is Billy Joel's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 9, 1949 birth.
What time was Billy Joel born?: 09:30 local time in New York City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Billy Joel's rising sign?: Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 09:30 birth time in New York City, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Billy Joel?: Billy Joel is 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Billy Joel's Life Path number?: Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 9, 1949 birth date.
What is Billy Joel's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 9, 1949 birth time.
Where is Billy Joel's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 2°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Billy Joel's dominant planet?: Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Libra; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Moon, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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Billy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

What sets Billy apart

Billy, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Billy wants to be loved

How Billy creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

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Dedicate a star to Billy Joel

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Taurus Sun

Earth Ox

Life Path 1

What stands out in Billy’s chart

Billy’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Billy’s dominant planets

Configurations in Billy’s chart

Minor aspects

Billy’s houses

Billy’s family here

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