Boy George
Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd; June 14, 1961, Eltham, United Kingdom), aged 65, is a British musician. George is best known for Arthur's Whisky.
Boy George’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Boy
Boy George’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Boy in the U.S.?
#5238
US rank in 2025
~923
Americans share it since 1900
2019
its peak year
Boy is in US records from 1900, but 1961 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2019.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Boy’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name George Alan O'Dowd, not the name they published under.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Boy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Boy apart
What keeps Boy George in print: Arthur's Whisky.
The working life starts in 1982, at 21.
Che Guevara (1928) and Donald J. Trump (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Arthur's Whisky
- Instruments
- voice and harmonica
- Nominated for
- MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film and Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
- Working from
- 1982
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
What the chart says
Boy, according to the stars
Core essence
Boy is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Boy needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Boy is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Boy needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Boy wants to be loved
Boy 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 Boy is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Boy creates
How Boy 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. Boy 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: Boy 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Boy 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 Boy leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Boy fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Boy's birth date. Working below.
Where Boy sits
Six lines
Boy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 Boy George
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Eltham 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 Eltham that night
Computed for 51.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Eltham was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 87.0° up.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Eltham at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat -2° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- George Alan O'Dowd
- Known as
- Boy George
- Born in
- Eltham, United Kingdom
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Boy George: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Boy's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Jupiter
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Boy George's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 14, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Boy George was born on June 14, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Boy George's birth date, June 14, 1961, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Boy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Boy George's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Boy George combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Boy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Cancer 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.1° to 1.0° orb
Boy’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.5° to 1.5° orb
Boy’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.8° to 1.3° orb
Boy’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.9° to 1.8° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.4° to 1.8° orb
stableVenustrinePluto1.4° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.6° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto4.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Boy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°41′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 4°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 2°54′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 20°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 14°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.4°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.8°
Boy’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Boy’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.6°
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More charts like Boy’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaDirector-General of the World Trade Organization
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Born in Ox years
- Meryl StreepAmerican actress
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- George ClooneyAmerican-French actor and filmmaker
Also born on June 14
- Che Guevara1928
- Donald J. Trump1946
- Lucy Hale1989
- Ayra Starr2002
- Gunna1993
- Kumar Mangalam Birla1967
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Penelope FitzgeraldBritish writer and poet
- A. S. ByattBritish writer
- Kazuo IshiguroBritish novelist (born 1954)
Other Gemini Ox charts
- Talbot HamlinAmerican architect, professor, and librarian
- Anton TroianovskiSoviet-born American journalist
- Gillian ClarkeWelsh poet (born 1937)
- Frank X WalkerAfrican-American poet from Kentucky (1961- )
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Dmitry Mazepinbusinessman
- Nobutada SajiJapanese businessman
- Frederik Paulsen JrSwedish businessman
- Bulat UtemuratovKazakh businessman and politician
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jesse MetcalfeAmerican actor
- Sanaa LathanAmerican actress
- Matt LauerAmerican journalist (1957-)
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Boy’s cards
Computed from June 14, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Boy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312883 (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 Dean Stockings, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 Boy George.
Quick answers about Boy George’s chart
- How old is Boy George?
- Boy George is 65 years old, born June 14, 1961 in Eltham, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Boy George?
- Boy George is a Gemini: born June 14, 1961, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Boy George's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 14, 1961 birth.
- What is Boy George's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Boy George's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Boy George's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Boy George's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
