Don Henley
Don Henley (born July 22, 1947, Gilmer, United States), aged 79, is an American rock musician. Henley's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, MusiCares Person of the Year and National Humanities Medal.
Don Henley’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Don Henley’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 Don in the U.S.?
#1795
US rank in 2025
~168,839
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Don’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Don, according to the stars
Core essence
Don feels the room before entering it. The core of Don is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Don, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Don wants to be loved
Don wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Don gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Don creates
How Don makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Don 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: Don is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Don 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Don scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Don's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Don 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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Don Henley in 15 seconds
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Don Henley's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 22, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Don Henley was born on July 22, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Don Henley's birth date, July 22, 1947, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Don’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Don Henley's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Don Henley 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.
Don’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Don Henley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Don’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
Don’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.2° to 0.5° orb
Don’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
Don’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextilePluto2.2° to 2.9° orb
Don’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
Don’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileSaturn4.2° to 4.7° orb
Don’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
Don’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.2° orb
Don’s growth grinds against their depths.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.4° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Don’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 2°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Don carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 3°48′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Don is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°56′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Don attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°51′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Don needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Don is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.0°
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°).
Don’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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Don 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 Don’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.
Stellium in Cancer · 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.
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.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Don Henley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Don
Albert Brooks was born on July 22, 1947 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Don’s cards
Every card is computed from July 22, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Don Henley, 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
Don’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316454, 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 Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Don Henley 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Don Henley.
Quick answers about Don Henley’s chart
- How old is Don Henley?
- Don Henley is 79 years old, born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Don Henley?
- Don Henley is a Cancer: born July 22, 1947, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is Don Henley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1947 birth.
- What time was Don Henley 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 is Don Henley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 22, 1947 birth date.
- What is Don Henley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 22, 1947 birth date.
- Where is Don Henley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Don Henley's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
