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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.How compatible are you with Bob Marley?
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Bob’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bob sits
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Bob’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nine Mile on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Bob Marley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Bob’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.0° to 2.8° orb
Bob’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.1° to 2.6° orb
Bob’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
Bob’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.0° orb
Bob’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.4° to 4.9° orb
Bob’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenustrinePluto4.0° to 5.0° orb
Bob’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.7° to 6.4° orb
Bob’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.1° to 7.7° orb
Bob’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°60′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Bob is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 5°45′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Bob is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosTaurus 23°26′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Bob wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 16°51′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Bob is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Bob that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Bob’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Bob is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Bob’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bob Marley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Bob’s family here
One relative of Bob Marley also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Bob’s cards
Every card is computed from February 6, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Bob Marley, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Bob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q409, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey.
- 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 time was Bob Marley born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Bob Marley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 6, 1945 birth date.
- What was Bob Marley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 6, 1945 birth date.
- 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.
