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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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 1880
1935
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Buddy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Buddy sits
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Buddy’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Buddy Guy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
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
Buddy’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.1° to 1.8° orb
Buddy’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareUranus1.7° to 2.7° orb
Buddy’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.9° to 4.5° orb
Buddy’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.0° to 6.0° orb
Buddy’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.3° to 5.4° orb
Buddy’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.6° orb
Buddy’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.7° to 7.7° orb
Buddy’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
Buddy’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 21°07′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Buddy turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresScorpio 18°36′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Buddy is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosVirgo 16°56′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Buddy is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°27′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Buddy needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 22°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Buddy that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 square Mars 0.3°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.8°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.1°
- Ceres square Venus 2.6°
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°).
Buddy’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Buddy is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Buddy’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Buddy Guy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from July 30, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Buddy Guy, 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
Buddy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q314208, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- 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 time was Buddy Guy 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 Buddy Guy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the July 30, 1936 birth date.
- What is Buddy Guy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 30, 1936 birth date.
- 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.
