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Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson (born June 20, 1942, Inglewood, California, United States; died 2025), was an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Wilson's honours include Grammy Awards, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.

Brian Wilson’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Brian Wilson’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Brian in the U.S.?

#339

US rank in 2025

~1,178,298

Americans share it since 1909

1972

its peak year

The SSA recorded 1,523 American boys named Brian in 1942: 139th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Brian’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Brian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Brian apart

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance came in 2005, when Brian Wilson was 63.

Brian Wilson was taught at Hawthorne High School and El Camino College.

Brian Wilson was 19 when the work began in 1961.

Brian Wilson lies at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Brian Wilson was born to Audree Wilson and Murry Wilson, married Marilyn Wilson and Melinda Ledbetter and raised 2 children.

Nicole Kidman (1967) and Behzinga (1995) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Hawthorne High School and El Camino College
Instruments
piano, bass guitar, keyboard instrument and voice
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance (2005), MusiCares Person of the Year (2005) and Grammy Award for Best Historical Album (2013)
Nominated for
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group and Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals
Working from
1961
Buried at
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
64

What the chart says

Brian, according to the stars

Core essence

Brian 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. Brian needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Brian is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Brian needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Brian wants to be loved

Brian 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 Brian is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Brian creates

How Brian makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Brian builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Brian is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Brian 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Brian 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 Brian's birth date. Working below.

Where Brian sits

Six lines

Brian’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Brian

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Brian

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Brian

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Brian

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Brian

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Brian

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Brian Wilson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Centinela Hospital Medical Center 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 Centinela Hospital Medical Center that night

Computed for 33.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Izar stood nearest the zenith over Centinela Hospital Medical Center at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.0° above the horizon in Boötes.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Centinela Hospital Medical Center sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Centinela Hospital Medical Center at all: they sit past the −56.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 43% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Centinela Hospital Medical Center, United States

The death is recorded at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County in 2025.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Brian Wilson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Brian's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart

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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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Brian Wilson's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 20, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Horse

Open road, open heart.

Brian Wilson was born on June 20, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Brian Wilson's birth date, June 20, 1942, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Brian’s chart

Brian’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 1.6° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.4° orbSun in Gemini · 28°48′☉28°Moon in Virgo · 15°56′☽15°Mercury in Gemini · 17°34′ · retrograde☿℞17°Venus in Taurus · 21°40′♀21°Mars in Leo · 4°06′♂4°Jupiter in Cancer · 2°21′♃2°Saturn in Gemini · 5°29′♄5°Uranus in Gemini · 2°06′♅2°Neptune in Virgo · 27°08′♆27°Pluto in Leo · 4°20′♇4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Brian’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn1.1° to 1.6° orb

    Brian’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Brian’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune1.2° to 2.1° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus1.7° to 2.3° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.9° to 6.1° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.1° to 5.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Brian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 12°24′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 29°53′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 29°11′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 1°44′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Sun 0.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 0.6°
  • Ceres square Sun 1.1°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 2.2°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 2.5°
  • Ceres opposition Neptune 2.8°
  • Eros square Uranus 2.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 2.9°

Brian’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Brian’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, UranusThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.4°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.8°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

Brian’s cards

Computed from June 20, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313013 (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 IthakaDarinPappas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Brian Wilson at Wikipedia, brianwilson.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Brian Wilson.

Quick answers about Brian Wilson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Brian Wilson?
Brian Wilson was a Gemini: born June 20, 1942, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Brian Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 20, 1942 birth.
What was Brian Wilson's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Brian Wilson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Brian Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Brian Wilson's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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