Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars (born Peter Gene Hernandez; October 8, 1985, Honolulu, United States), aged 41, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Best-known releases include Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Unorthodox Jukebox and 24K Magic. Mars's honours include Grammy Award for Song of the Year, American Music Award for Artist of the Year and QQ Music Awards.
Bruno Mars’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Bruno
Bruno Mars’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Bruno in the U.S.?
#740
US rank in 2025
~18,875
Americans share it since 1880
2022
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1985, Bruno came 1,135th, carried by 67 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bruno’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Peter Gene Hernandez, not the name they published under.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on P (7) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bruno’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1985, 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 Bruno apart
Bruno Mars took the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2018, at 33.
Training came by way of President Theodore Roosevelt High School.
On the family side, Bruno Mars was born to Peter Hernandez.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Bruno Mars: American male actors of Filipino descent, BT Digital Music Awards winners and APRA Award winners.
Matt Damon (1970) and Juan Perón (1895) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- President Theodore Roosevelt High School
- Instruments
- piano, keyboard instrument, drum kit and guitar
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Song of the Year (2018)
- Working from
- 1990
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Spanish and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 105
What the chart says
Bruno, according to the stars
Core essence
Bruno makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Bruno is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Bruno wants to be loved
Bruno 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 Bruno and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Bruno creates
How Bruno makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Bruno creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Bruno 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Bruno is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Bruno 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 Bruno's birth date. Working below.
Where Bruno sits
Six lines
Bruno’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Bruno Mars
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Honolulu 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 Honolulu that night
Computed for 21.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Honolulu at 9 p.m. that evening: Enif of Pegasus, within 11.5° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 21.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 29% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Peter Gene Hernandez
- Known as
- Bruno Mars
- Born in
- Honolulu, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bruno Mars: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Bruno's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Pluto · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Bruno Mars's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 8, 1985, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
Bruno Mars was born on October 8, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Bruno Mars's birth date, October 8, 1985, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Bruno’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bruno Mars' date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Bruno Mars combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Bruno’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Cancer or Leo 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Bruno’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.0° to 2.6° orb
Bruno’s affections and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° orb
Bruno’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareUranus3.1° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.2° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.1° to 6.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto6.1° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 2.6° to 15.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 2.9° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Bruno’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 14°29′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 21°32′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra or Virgo during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 26°52′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 14°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Eros square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.1°
Bruno’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Bruno’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.
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.6°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.7°
More people like Bruno
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- Adele1988
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Born in United States
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- Chrissy TeigenAmerican model
- Taj GibsonAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
- Christian SirianoAmerican fashion designer (born 1985)
- Michael PhelpsAmerican swimmer
More charts like Bruno’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Robert ReedHugo Award-winning American science fiction author (born 1956)
- Ursula K. Le GuinAmerican fantasy and science fiction author
- Mario PuzoAmerican author, screenwriter, and journalist
Born in Ox years
- Darnell MooneyAmerican football wide receiver
- Jon Runyan Jr.American football guard
- Ben SkowronekAmerican football player (born 1997)
Also born on October 8
- Matt Damon1970
- Juan Perón1895
- Barbara Palvin1993
- Zheng Qinwen2002
- Nick Cannon1980
- Reed Hastings1960
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- David HuddlestonAmerican actor
- Kim NovakAmerican actress
- Elizabeth BerridgeAmerican actor
Other Libra Ox charts
- Jordyn BrooksAmerican football player (born 1997)
- T.J. Slaton Jr.American football cornerback
- Charlie WoernerAmerican football tight end
- Bang ChanAustralian-South Korean singer, rapper and music producer (born 1997)
Other Gilded Pioneers
- JC CaylenAmerican YouTuber
- Steven RalesAmerican businessman and film producer
- Richard LiChairman of Pacific Century CyberWorks
- Sajjan JindalIndian businessman
Famous people with Life Path 5
- John E. WalkerBritish biochemist (1941-)
- Seán MacBrideIrish politician and human rights activist
- Jacinto BenaventeSpanish writer
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Bruno’s cards
Computed from October 8, 1985. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bruno’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1450 (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 slgckgc, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bruno Mars at Wikipedia, brunomars.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 Bruno Mars.
Quick answers about Bruno Mars’s chart
- How old is Bruno Mars?
- Bruno Mars is 41 years old, born October 8, 1985 in Honolulu, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bruno Mars?
- Bruno Mars is a Libra: born October 8, 1985, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Bruno Mars's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 8, 1985 birth.
- What is Bruno Mars's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bruno Mars's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bruno Mars's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bruno Mars's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
