Count Basie
Count Basie (born August 21, 1904, Red Bank, United States; died 1984), was an American jazz musician and composer. Basie's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kansas Music Hall of Fame.
Count Basie’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Count Basie’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
Count’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Count, according to the stars
Core essence
Count is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Count 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Count is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Count needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Count wants to be loved
Count 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 Count and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Count creates
How Count makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Count creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Count is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Count 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Count fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Count's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Count sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Count Basie's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1904, 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.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Count Basie was born on August 21, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Count Basie's birth date, August 21, 1904, 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 Count’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Count Basie's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Count Basie combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Count’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Count Basie, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° 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.
stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 5.9° orb
Count’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.2° to 1.1° orb
Count’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.6° to 2.5° orb
Count’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSuntrineUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb
Count’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.3° to 3.5° orb
Count’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.4° to 4.3° orb
Count’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.7° to 4.3° orb
Count’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.2° orb
Count’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionPluto4.5° orb
Count’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.7° orb
Count’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 3.7° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Count’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 25°36′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Count is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 10°12′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Count is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 15°48′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Count loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 7°41′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Count is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Count is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.2°
- Ceres square Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Eros opposition Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.7°
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°).
Count’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Count 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 Count’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.
Grand trine · Sun, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mercury · Uranus, Pluto, MercuryAn 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Count Basie, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Count’s cards
Every card is computed from August 21, 1904, 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 Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Count Basie, 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
Count’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107008, 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 James J. Kriegsmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Count Basie at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Count Basie’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Count Basie?
- Count Basie was a Leo: born August 21, 1904, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon.
- What was Count Basie's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1904 birth.
- What time was Count Basie 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 was Count Basie's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 21, 1904 birth date.
- What was Count Basie's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 21, 1904 birth date.
- Where was Count Basie's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Count Basie's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
