Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy (born July 30, 1936, Lettsworth, United States), aged 90, is an American blues guitarist and singer. Guy's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Award for Best Blues Album.
Buddy Guy’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Buddy
Buddy Guy’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Buddy in the U.S.?
#4418
US rank in 2025
~22,585
Americans share it since 1893
1935
its peak year
Buddy ranked 221st among boys and 4,269th among girls in 1936, the year of this birth, with 524 American boys and 5 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Buddy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Buddy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Gold · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, 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 Buddy apart
Buddy Guy took the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, at 69.
Training came by way of McKinley Senior High School.
The working life starts in 1953, at 17.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Buddy Guy under Electric blues musicians, Chicago blues musicians and Blues musicians from Louisiana.
Henry Ford (1863) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- McKinley Senior High School
- Instruments
- guitar and voice
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2005) and Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist (2018)
- Working from
- 1953
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 42
What the chart says
Buddy, according to the stars
Core essence
Buddy is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Buddy is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Buddy wants to be loved
Buddy wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Buddy openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Buddy creates
How Buddy makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Buddy creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Buddy 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Buddy is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Buddy does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Buddy's birth date. Working below.
Where Buddy sits
Six lines
Buddy’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Buddy Guy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lettsworth 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 Lettsworth that night
Computed for 30.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Lettsworth at 9 p.m. that evening: Kornephoros of Hercules, within 9.3° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 30.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −59.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 89% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual Buddy's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Leo · No Air planets
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
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Buddy Guy's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 30, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Buddy Guy was born on July 30, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Buddy Guy's birth date, July 30, 1936, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Buddy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Buddy Guy's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Air.
- Buddy Guy combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Buddy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.3° orb
Buddy’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Buddy’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.5° to 1.8° orb
Buddy’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.8° to 1.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.1° to 1.8° orb
stableSunsquareUranus1.7° to 2.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.0° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.7° to 7.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Buddy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 21°07′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 18°36′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 16°56′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°27′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 22°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.3°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.8°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.1°
- Ceres square Venus 2.6°
Buddy’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Buddy’s chart
Stellium in Leo · 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.4°
More people like Buddy
Other composers
- David Del Tredici1937
- Michael Colgrass1932
- Fela Kuti1938
- Berry Gordy1929
- Steve Reich1936
- Richard Wernick1934
Born in United States
- Soc ClayAmerican poet laureate from Kentucky
- Louis Gossett Jr.American actor
- Jim Wayne MillerAmerican poet and educator
- Kenneth SilvermanAmerican biographer
- Robert RedfordAmerican actor and director
- Keir DulleaAmerican actor
More charts like Buddy’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Cecil B. DeMilleAmerican film director, producer and actor
- Jack WarnerAmerican film executive
- Alfred HitchcockBritish filmmaker
Born in Rat years
- Jakobi MeyersAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Danny PinterAmerican football guard
- Broderick Washington Jr.American football player (born 1996)
Also born on July 30
- Henry Ford1863
- Arnold Schwarzenegger1947
- Christopher Nolan1970
- Lisa Kudrow1963
- Kate Bush1958
- Terry Crews1968
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Toluse OlorunnipaAmerican White House reporter
- John Ashberypoet from the United States of America
- Henry F. PringleAmerican biographer
Other Leo Rat charts
- Wil WheatonAmerican actor and writer
- Henry JonesAmerican actor of stage, film and television
- Wendy HillerEnglish film and stage actress
- Richard LinklaterAmerican director and screenwriter (born 1960)
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Babak KarimiIranian film editor and actor
- Boyd HolbrookAmerican actor and former model
- Mamta MohandasIndian film actress and playback singer
- Sally KirklandAmerican actress, film producer, and activist
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Jussie SmollettAmerican actor
- Sarah SnookAustralian actress (born 1987)
- Lynne Spearsmother of Britney Spears
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Buddy’s cards
Computed from July 30, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Buddy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q314208 (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 Tom Beetz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Buddy Guy at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Buddy Guy.
Quick answers about Buddy Guy’s chart
- How old is Buddy Guy?
- Buddy Guy is 90 years old, born July 30, 1936 in Lettsworth, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Buddy Guy?
- Buddy Guy is a Leo: born July 30, 1936, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Buddy Guy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 30, 1936 birth.
- What is Buddy Guy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Buddy Guy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Buddy Guy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Buddy Guy's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
