Bono
Bono (born May 10, 1960, Dublin, Ireland), aged 66, is an Irish singer. Bono's honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Order of Liberty and Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Bono’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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Bono’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
Bono’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Bono, according to the stars
Core essence
Bono 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 Bono 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, Bono feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Bono needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Bono wants to be loved
Bono 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 Bono is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Bono creates
How Bono makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Bono creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Bono is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Bono is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Bono slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Bono's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bono sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Bono's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 10, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it. 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.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Bono was born on May 10, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Bono's birth date, May 10, 1960, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Bono’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bono's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bono combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Bono’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Bono, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 16° Scorpio 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
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
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.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 7.6° orb
Bono’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.1° to 1.3° orb
Bono’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.6° orb
Bono’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.0° to 2.0° orb
Bono’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareUranus2.3° to 3.2° orb
Bono’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.8° to 3.7° orb
Bono’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.9° to 5.0° orb
Bono’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb
Bono’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
Bono’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto3.9° to 5.2° orb
Bono’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
Bono’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineJupiter4.5° to 5.8° orb
Bono’s affections flow straight into their growth.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Bono’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 1°58′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Bono absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAquarius 24°09′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Bono is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAries 3°17′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Bono is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaLeo 20°02′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Bono at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Bono guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Hygiea square Sun 0.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 3.0°
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°).
Bono’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. ♀ Venus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Bono 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 Bono’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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Kite · Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bono, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Rat years
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Bono’s cards
Every card is computed from May 10, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
Tap to flip
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Bono, 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
Bono’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q834621, 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 Daniel Hazard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bono at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Bono.
Quick answers about Bono’s chart
- How old is Bono?
- Bono is 66 years old, born May 10, 1960 in Dublin, Ireland.
- What zodiac sign is Bono?
- Bono is a Taurus: born May 10, 1960, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is Bono's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 10, 1960 birth.
- What time was Bono 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.
- How tall is Bono?
- Bono is 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Bono's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 10, 1960 birth date.
- What is Bono's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 10, 1960 birth date.
- Where is Bono's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bono's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
