Brad Paisley
Brad Paisley (born October 28, 1972, Glen Dale, United States), aged 53, is an American country musician (born 1972). Paisley's honours include Country Music Association Award for International Achievement.
Brad Paisley’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.How compatible are you with Brad Paisley?
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Brad Paisley’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 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Brad in the U.S.?
#4267
US rank in 2025
~83,293
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Brad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
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The record
What sets Brad apart
Trista Sutter shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Brad, according to the stars
Core essence
Brad does not do surface. The core of Brad 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 Brad is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Brad wants to be loved
Brad wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Brad and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Brad creates
How Brad makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Brad 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: Brad 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Brad is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Brad fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Brad's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Brad 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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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Brad Paisley in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Brad Paisley's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Brad Paisley was born on October 28, 1972, which falls in a Water 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 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Brad Paisley's birth date, October 28, 1972, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Brad’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brad Paisley's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Brad Paisley 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.
Brad’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Brad Paisley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° orb
Brad’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb
Brad’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.5° to 1.4° orb
Brad’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Brad’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Brad’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.5° to 2.1° orb
Brad’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.7° to 2.4° orb
Brad’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.2° to 6.4° orb
Brad’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 7.2° orb
Brad’s mind and imagination act as one.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Brad’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 ℞Aries 14°11′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Brad may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLibra 26°13′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Brad is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAquarius 22°45′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Brad is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 8°23′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Brad is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Brad is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 conjunction Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.8°
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°).
Brad’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Brad is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Brad’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brad Paisley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Brad
Trista Sutter was born on October 28, 1972 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Brad’s cards
Every card is computed from October 28, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Brad Paisley, 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
Brad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q39639, 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 Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Brad Paisley.
Quick answers about Brad Paisley’s chart
- How old is Brad Paisley?
- Brad Paisley is 53 years old, born October 28, 1972 in Glen Dale, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Brad Paisley?
- Brad Paisley is a Scorpio: born October 28, 1972, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is Brad Paisley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1972 birth.
- What time was Brad Paisley 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 is Brad Paisley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 28, 1972 birth date.
- What is Brad Paisley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 28, 1972 birth date.
- Where is Brad Paisley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brad Paisley's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
