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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Count
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.
What Count’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 C (3) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Count’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1904, 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 Count apart
Count Basie took the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album in 1958, at 54.
The working life starts in 1924, at 20.
Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer; the grave is at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
The family line: married Catherine Basie.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Count Basie: Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Florida, African-American jazz pianists and Black Lion Records artists.
Usain Bolt (1986) and Robert Lewandowski (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- piano, organ, Hammond organ and jazz piano
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1985), Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2002) and NEA Jazz Masters (1983)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance and Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra, for Dancing
- Working from
- 1924
- Cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- Buried at
- Pinelawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 55
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. Working below.
Where Count sits
Six lines
Count’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Count Basie
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Red Bank 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 Red Bank that night
Computed for 40.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Red Bank at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.0° above the horizon in Lyra.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Red Bank on any night.
The Moon, 86% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Red Bank, United States
The death is recorded at Hollywood, Broward County in 1984.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Count Basie: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Count's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenussextileNeptune2.3° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.2° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto4.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 25°36′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 10°12′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 15°48′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 7°41′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Count’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Count’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.4°
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Count’s cards
Computed from August 21, 1904. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Count’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107008 (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 James J. Kriegsmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Count Basie at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Count Basie.
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.
- 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 was Count Basie's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Count Basie's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
