Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt (born November 8, 1949, Burbank, United States), aged 76, is an American musician (born 1949). Raitt's honours include Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.
Bonnie Raitt’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Bonnie
Bonnie Raitt’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Bonnie in the U.S.?
#396
US rank in 2025
~332,712
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Bonnie ranked 35th among girls and 857th among boys in 1949, the year of this birth, with 9,732 American girls and 64 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bonnie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on B (2) and closes on E (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bonnie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Bonnie apart
Bonnie Raitt took the MusiCares Person of the Year in 1992, at 43.
Training came by way of Oakwood Friends School and Radcliffe College.
The working life starts in 1971, at 22.
Bonnie Raitt was born to John Raitt and married Michael O'Keefe.
Wikipedia's editors put Bonnie Raitt under American fingerstyle guitarists and Activists from California.
Alain Delon (1935) and Gordon Ramsay (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Oakwood Friends School, Radcliffe College and Harvard University
- Instruments
- guitar and voice
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2000), MusiCares Person of the Year (1992) and Grammy Award for Song of the Year (2003)
- Working from
- 1971
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 45
What the chart says
Bonnie, according to the stars
Core essence
Bonnie does not do surface. The core of Bonnie is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Bonnie is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Bonnie 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 Bonnie needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Bonnie wants to be loved
Bonnie 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 Bonnie you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Bonnie creates
How Bonnie makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Bonnie creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Bonnie 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 6 is the nurturer. Bonnie is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Bonnie channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Bonnie's birth date. Working below.
Where Bonnie sits
Six lines
Bonnie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Bonnie Raitt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Burbank 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 Burbank that night
Computed for 34.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Burbank at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 6.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 90% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 51° down.
How unusual Bonnie's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Bonnie Raitt's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 8, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Bonnie Raitt was born on November 8, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Bonnie Raitt's birth date, November 8, 1949, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Bonnie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bonnie Raitt's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Bonnie Raitt combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Bonnie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Gemini 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
stableSunsextileSaturn0.6° to 1.5° orb
Bonnie’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileMars0.6° to 1.7° orb
Bonnie’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionUranus1.3° to 2.4° orb
Bonnie’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunsquarePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.2° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.8° to 4.4° orb
stableVenustrineMars4.0° to 4.6° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 5.9° to 17.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Bonnie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 9°27′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°14′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 9°57′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 5°01′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.6°
- Eros square Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.2°
- Chiron square Mars 2.3°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.4°
Bonnie’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Bonnie’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
More people like Bonnie
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Born in United States
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on November 8
- Alain Delon1935
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Other Tidal Guardians
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- Sidney HowardAmerican playwright
- Charles WrightAmerican writer; University of Virginia professor (born 1935)
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Bonnie’s cards
Computed from November 8, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bonnie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234693 (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 The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bonnie Raitt.
Quick answers about Bonnie Raitt’s chart
- How old is Bonnie Raitt?
- Bonnie Raitt is 76 years old, born November 8, 1949 in Burbank, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bonnie Raitt?
- Bonnie Raitt is a Scorpio: born November 8, 1949, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Bonnie Raitt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 8, 1949 birth.
- What is Bonnie Raitt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bonnie Raitt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bonnie Raitt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bonnie Raitt's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
