Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin; January 20, 1930, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States, 14:17), aged 96, is an American astronaut. Aldrin's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Aviation Hall of Fame and Order of Culture.
Buzz Aldrin’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Snake, with 
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Buzz Aldrin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Buzz in the U.S.?
#9867
US rank in 2025
~280
Americans share it since 1880
1951
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Buzz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Buzz, according to the stars
Core essence
Buzz is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Buzz is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Buzz cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Buzz needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Buzz wants to be loved
Buzz wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Buzz you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Buzz creates
How Buzz makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Buzz 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: Buzz is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Buzz is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Buzz does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Buzz's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Buzz 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Buzz Aldrin's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Earth Snake
Earth SnakePrivate by design.
Buzz Aldrin was born on January 20, 1930, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Buzz Aldrin's birth date, January 20, 1930, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Buzz’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Buzz Aldrin's timed chart: Jupiter in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Buzz Aldrin's timed chart is Moon square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Buzz Aldrin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Buzz’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonsquarePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
Buzz’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarsoppositionPlutoapplying · 1.4° orb
Buzz’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
JupitersextileUranusseparating · 1.4° orb
Buzz’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SaturnsquareUranusapplying · 2.0° orb
Buzz’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 2.6° orb
Buzz’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 2.8° orb
Buzz’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 3.0° orb
Buzz’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
JupitersquareNeptuneapplying · 3.5° orb
Buzz’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 3.7° orb
Buzz’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 4.1° orb
Buzz’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoonsquareVenusapplying · 6.4° orb
Buzz’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 6.5° orb
Buzz’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 6.9° orb
Buzz’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.7° orb
Buzz’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Buzz’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 9°37′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Buzz building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 4°54′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Buzz feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 21°57′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Buzz is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAries 9°54′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Buzz feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 27°15′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Buzz is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.6°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres trine Mercury 2.1°
- Eros square Moon 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 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°).
Buzz’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Buzz is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Buzz’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
T-square onto Moon · Mars, Pluto, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Moon · Venus, Pluto, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.1°
- Moon semi-square Neptune 1.5°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Jupiter 2.0°
Buzz’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 9 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Cancer | Moon in Libra, house 5 | Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 9 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 9 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 8 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 1 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 8 | Venus, Mars, Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 11 | Sun, Mercury | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 8 | Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Buzz’s cards
Every card is computed from January 20, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Buzz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2252, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Buzz Aldrin at Wikipedia, buzzaldrin.com, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about Buzz Aldrin’s chart
- How old is Buzz Aldrin?
- Buzz Aldrin is 96 years old, born January 20, 1930 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Buzz Aldrin?
- Buzz Aldrin is an Aquarius: born January 20, 1930, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Snake.
- What is Buzz Aldrin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1930 birth.
- What time was Buzz Aldrin born?
- 14:17 local time in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Buzz Aldrin's rising sign?
- Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 14:17 birth time in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Buzz Aldrin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 20, 1930 birth date.
- What is Buzz Aldrin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 20, 1930 birth time.
- Where is Buzz Aldrin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 27°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Buzz Aldrin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
