Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946, Pittman Center, United States, 20:25; died 2026), was an American singer, songwriter and actress. Parton is best remembered for All I Can Do, Jolene and I Will Always Love You. Parton's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.
Dolly Parton’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Dolly
Dolly Parton’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 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Dolly in the U.S.?
#1781
US rank in 2025
~20,636
Americans share it since 1880
1926
its peak year
In 1946, 263 American girls were registered Dolly — 482nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dolly’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dolly’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1945, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Dolly apart
Jolene, I Will Always Love You and 9 to 5. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through Sevier County High School.
Dolly Parton was 13 when the work began in 1959.
The record gives cancer as the cause, and Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, Dolly Parton was born to Avie Lee Parton and Robert Lee Parton and married Carl Thomas Dean.
Julian Barnes shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Jolene, I Will Always Love You and 9 to 5
- Educated at
- Sevier County High School
- Instruments
- guitar, banjo, autoharp and voice
- Awards
- Grammy Hall of Fame (2006), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2022) and Time 100 (2021)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
- Working from
- 1959
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Buried at
- Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 122
What the chart says
Dolly, according to the stars
Core essence
Dolly is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Dolly is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Dolly is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Dolly needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Dolly wants to be loved
Dolly 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 Dolly you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Dolly creates
How Dolly makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Dolly 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: Dolly is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Dolly is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Dolly does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Dolly's birth date. Working below.
Where Dolly sits
Six lines
Dolly’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Dolly Parton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittman Center on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Pittman Center at 20:25, Dolly Parton’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Pittman Center that night
Computed for 35.76°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Pittman Center was Menkib, in Perseus, 88.2° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Pittman Center sits at 35.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −54.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pittman Center on any night.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waning gibbous.
What Dolly's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Lunar Star 太陰 in 卯
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
70 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Jupiter · 2 planets 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Dolly Parton's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Dolly Parton was born on January 19, 1946, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Dolly Parton's birth date, January 19, 1946, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Dolly’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Dolly Parton's timed chart: Moon in the 1st house and Uranus in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Dolly Parton's timed chart is Mars conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Dolly Parton combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Dolly’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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MarsconjunctionSaturnapplying · 0.1° orb
Dolly’s drive and discipline act as one.
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 0.2° orb
Dolly’s affections grind against their growth.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.3° orb
Dolly’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 2.8° orb
UranussextilePlutoapplying · 2.9° orb
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.0° orb
MoonsextileJupiterseparating · 3.8° orb
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 5.2° orb
MercuryoppositionSaturnapplying · 5.4° orb
MercuryoppositionMarsapplying · 5.5° orb
VenusoppositionMarsseparating · 5.5° orb
VenusoppositionSaturnseparating · 5.6° orb
MarssquareJupiterseparating · 5.7° orb
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 5.8° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Dolly’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironLibra 21°06′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°17′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 4°47′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 2°22′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 18°12′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Ascendant 0.1°
- Chiron square Mars 0.2°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.3°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Moon 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.8°
Dolly’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Dolly’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Mars, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Saturn, JupiterAn 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.
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mercury 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Moon 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.6°
Dolly’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 5 | Moon | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 5 | Jupiter, Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 12 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 2 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Cancer, house 11 | Sun, Mercury, Venus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 10 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 11 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 5 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 5 | Uranus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 1 | Mars, Saturn | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 5 | Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Dolly
Julian Barnes was born on January 19, 1946 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Pittman Center, at 35.8°N, nothing below −54.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Dolly’s cards
Computed from January 19, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dolly’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q180453 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by RCA Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dolly Parton.
Quick answers about Dolly Parton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dolly Parton?
- Dolly Parton was a Capricorn: born January 19, 1946, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What was Dolly Parton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 19, 1946 birth.
- What time was Dolly Parton born?
- 20:25 local time in Pittman Center, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Dolly Parton's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 20:25 birth time in Pittman Center, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Dolly Parton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Dolly Parton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 21°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Dolly Parton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 18°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dolly Parton's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
