Bob Marley
Bob Marley (born Robert Nesta Marley; February 6, 1945, Nine Mile, Jamaica; died 1981), was a Jamaican reggae musician. Best-known releases include Kaya. Marley's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Order of Merit.
Bob Marley’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Bob
Bob Marley’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Bob in the U.S.?
#9845
US rank in 2025
~93,308
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Bob ranked 107th among boys and 4,620th among girls in 1945, the year of this birth, with 2,176 American boys and 5 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bob’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Robert Nesta Marley, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bob’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1945, 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 Bob apart
Bob Marley took the Order of Merit in 1981, at 36.
The classrooms behind this chart: Stepney Primary and Junior High School.
The working life starts in 1962, at 17.
Cause of death is recorded as brain cancer; the grave is at Nine Mile.
Bob Marley was born to Cedella Booker and Norval Marley, married Rita Marley and raised 5 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Bob Marley under Guitarists from Delaware, Converts to Tewahedo Orthodoxy and Jamaican anti-apartheid activists.
Ronald Reagan (1911) and Axl Rose (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Stepney Primary and Junior High School
- Instruments
- guitar and voice
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1994), Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001) and Order of Merit (1981)
- Working from
- 1962
- Cause of death
- brain cancer
- Buried at
- Nine Mile
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Languages
- Jamaican Patois and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 164
What the chart says
Bob, according to the stars
Core essence
Bob is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Bob is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Bob wants to be loved
Bob 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 Bob creates
How Bob makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Bob creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Bob is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Bob is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Bob does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Bob's birth date. Working below.
Where Bob sits
Six lines
Bob’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 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 Bob Marley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nine Mile 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 Nine Mile that night
Computed for 18.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Nine Mile was Propus, in Gemini, 84.7° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 18.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 34% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Robert Nesta Marley
- Known as
- Bob Marley
- Born in
- Nine Mile, Jamaica
The death is recorded at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami in 1981.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bob Marley: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Bob's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Saturn · Five planets 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Bob Marley's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 6, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Bob Marley's birth date, February 6, 1945, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Bob’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bob Marley's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Bob Marley combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Bob’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Bob’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussextilePluto0.2° orb
Bob’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb
Bob’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.7° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.0° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.1° to 2.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.0° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.4° to 4.9° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.7° to 6.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.1° to 7.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Bob’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°60′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 5°45′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 23°26′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 16°51′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Eros trine Mars 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
Bob’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Bob’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.5°
Bob’s family here
One relative of Bob Marley also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Bob’s cards
Computed from February 6, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q409 (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 Dennis Morris; Distributed by Island Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bob Marley at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Bob Marley.
Quick answers about Bob Marley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bob Marley?
- Bob Marley was an Aquarius: born February 6, 1945, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Bob Marley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 6, 1945 birth.
- What was Bob Marley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Bob Marley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Bob Marley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bob Marley's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
