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Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn (born March 23, 1968, Whitechapel, United Kingdom), aged 58, is a British musician. Best-known releases include Everyday Robots. Albarn's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Damon Albarn’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Damon Albarn’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Damon in the U.S.?

#501

US rank in 2025

~69,157

Americans share it since 1880

1976

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1968, Damon came 188th among boys and 6,389th among girls, carried by 1,330 American boys and 6 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Damon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Damon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Damon apart

The Stanway School and Goldsmiths, University of London shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1988, at 20.

Damon Albarn was born to Keith Albarn.

Emmy Noether (1882) and Kangana Ranaut (1986) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
The Stanway School and Goldsmiths, University of London
Instruments
guitar, piano, violin and voice
Working from
1988
Wikipedia editions
47

What the chart says

Damon, according to the stars

Core essence

Damon 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 Damon 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.

How Damon wants to be loved

Damon wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Damon, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Damon creates

How Damon makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Damon creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Damon is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Damon is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Damon gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Damon's birth date. Working below.

Where Damon sits

Six lines

Damon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Damon

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Damon

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Damon

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Damon

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Damon

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Damon

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Damon Albarn

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Whitechapel 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 Whitechapel that night

Computed for 51.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Whitechapel at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.0° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Whitechapel at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 25% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.

How unusual Damon's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Mars · 3-planet stellium in Aries · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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Damon Albarn in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Starts the thing. Then plans it.

Damon Albarn's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 23, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Damon Albarn was born on March 23, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Damon Albarn's birth date, March 23, 1968, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Damon’s chart

Damon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.5° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.6° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.8° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.2° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 1.5° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.3° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 4.7° orbSun in Aries · 2°53′☉2°Moon in Capricorn · 28°10′☽28°Mercury in Pisces · 7°27′☿7°Venus in Pisces · 9°44′♀9°Mars in Aries · 26°39′♂26°Jupiter in Leo · 27°09′ · retrograde♃℞27°Saturn in Aries · 13°46′♄13°Uranus in Virgo · 26°56′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Scorpio · 26°21′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Virgo · 21°14′ · retrograde♇℞21°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.1° to 0.9° orb

    Damon’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune0.6° orb

    Damon’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.8° orb

    Damon’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus5.4° to 6.5° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.7° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.2° to 13.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineNeptuneorb from 6.0° to 7.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Damon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 29°29′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 4°44′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Libra 10°01′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 8°59′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 20°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.6°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 2.7°

Damon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Damon’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mars · Uranus, Neptune, MarsTwo 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 0.3°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 0.3°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 1.9°

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Damon’s cards

Computed from March 23, 1968. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Damon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272069 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Damon Albarn’s chart

How old is Damon Albarn?
Damon Albarn is 58 years old, born March 23, 1968 in Whitechapel, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Damon Albarn?
Damon Albarn is an Aries: born March 23, 1968, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Damon Albarn's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 23, 1968 birth.
What is Damon Albarn's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Damon Albarn's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Damon Albarn's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Damon Albarn's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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