Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23, 1953, Chicago, United States, 21:05), aged 73, is an American singer. Best-known releases include Destiny, I Feel for You and Naughty. Khan's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Icon Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Chaka Khan’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Snake, with 
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Chaka Khan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Chaka in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~1,103
Americans share it since 1880
1976
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Chaka’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Chaka, according to the stars
Core essence
Chaka leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Chaka is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Chaka is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Chaka needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Chaka wants to be loved
Chaka 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 Chaka is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Chaka creates
How Chaka makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Chaka 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: Chaka 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Chaka is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Chaka is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Chaka's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Chaka sits
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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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Chaka Khan's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Chaka Khan was born on March 23, 1953, which falls in a Water 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 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Chaka Khan's birth date, March 23, 1953, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Chaka’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Chaka Khan's timed chart: Venus in the 7th house, Mars in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 7th house and Pluto in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Chaka Khan's timed chart is Moon square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Chaka Khan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Chaka’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
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 0.4° orb
Chaka’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoontrineMercuryseparating · 0.6° orb
Chaka’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 1.3° orb
Chaka’s growth grinds against their depths.
VenusconjunctionMarsseparating · 1.5° orb
Chaka’s affections and drive act as one.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.9° orb
Chaka’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsquareSaturnapplying · 2.1° orb
Chaka’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 2.5° orb
Chaka’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercurysextileJupiterapplying · 3.0° orb
Chaka’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsextileJupiterseparating · 3.6° orb
Chaka’s feelings open doors for their growth.
SaturnsextilePlutoapplying · 4.4° orb
Chaka’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
VenusoppositionSaturnseparating · 5.8° orb
Chaka’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MarsoppositionSaturnseparating · 7.3° orb
Chaka’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Chaka’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 20°14′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Chaka is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresGemini 14°29′ · House 8
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 Chaka feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosPisces 8°51′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Chaka is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°27′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Chaka is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°06′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Chaka exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros trine Ascendant 0.1°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Chiron square Neptune 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°).
Chaka’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☽ Moon10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus9 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars8.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Chaka is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Chaka’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Yod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
Chaka’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 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 10 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Taurus, house 7 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Libra, house 12 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 9 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 12 | Mercury | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 7 | Sun | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Taurus, house 7 | Venus, Mars, Jupiter | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Pisces, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 9 | Moon, Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 6 | Pluto | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Pisces, house 5 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Taurus, house 7 | Saturn, Neptune | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Chaka’s cards
Every card is computed from March 23, 1953, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Chaka’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229498, 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 The Heart Truth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chaka Khan at Wikipedia, chakakhan.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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.
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Quick answers about Chaka Khan’s chart
- How old is Chaka Khan?
- Chaka Khan is 73 years old, born March 23, 1953 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Chaka Khan?
- Chaka Khan is an Aries: born March 23, 1953, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
- What is Chaka Khan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 23, 1953 birth.
- What time was Chaka Khan born?
- 21:05 local time in Chicago, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Chaka Khan's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 21:05 birth time in Chicago, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Chaka Khan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the March 23, 1953 birth date.
- What is Chaka Khan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 20°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 23, 1953 birth time.
- Where is Chaka Khan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 10°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Chaka Khan's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
