Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre (born Andre Romell Young; February 18, 1965, Compton, United States, 10:56), aged 61, is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. Best-known releases include The Chronic, 2001 and Compton. Dre's honours include California Hall of Fame and American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist.
Dr. Dre’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
What Dr. Dre’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Andre Romell Young, not the name they published under.
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Expression · starting things
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Soul Urge · achievement
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Personality · perceptive
The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dr. Dre’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, 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 Dr. Dre apart
Dr. Dre took the American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist in 2001, at 36.
The classrooms behind this chart: John C. Fremont High School and Centennial High School.
The working life starts in 1984, at 19.
The family line: raised 3 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Dr. Dre: Cannabis music, American music publishers (people) and Aftermath Entertainment artists.
Toni Morrison (1931) and John Travolta (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- John C. Fremont High School and Centennial High School
- Instruments
- keyboard instrument, synthesizer, sampler and drum machine
- Awards
- California Hall of Fame (2014) and American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist (2001)
- Working from
- 1984
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 94
What the chart says
Dr. Dre, according to the stars
Core essence
Dr. Dre is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Dr. Dre is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Dr. Dre cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Dr. Dre needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Dr. Dre wants to be loved
Dr. Dre wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Dr. Dre be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Dr. Dre creates
How Dr. Dre makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Dr. Dre 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: Dr. Dre is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Dr. Dre 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Dr. Dre channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Dr. Dre's birth date. Working below.
Where Dr. Dre sits
Six lines
Dr. Dre’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Dr. Dre
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Compton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Compton at 10:56, Dr. Dre’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Compton that night
Computed for 33.90°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Compton was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 87.4° up.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 33.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −56.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Compton on any night.
Sun -42° below the horizon, Moon down and 90% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Andre Romell Young
- Known as
- Dr. Dre
- Born in
- Compton, United States
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Dr.'s birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Purple Star 紫微, The Charmer 貪狼 in 酉
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 6/2
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Mercury
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 →Dr. Dre at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Dr. Dre's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What Aquarius means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeSays less than it knows.
Dr. Dre was born on February 18, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Dr. Dre's birth date, February 18, 1965, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Dr. Dre’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Dr. Dre's timed chart: Mars in the 4th house, Saturn in the 10th house, Uranus in the 4th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Dr. Dre's timed chart is Jupiter opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Dr. Dre combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Dr. Dre’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
JupiteroppositionNeptuneapplying · 1.4° orb
Dr. Dre’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 1.8° orb
Dr. Dre’s affections grind against their growth.
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 2.1° orb
Dr. Dre’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 3.2° orb
JupitertrinePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 4.3° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.6° orb
JupitertrineUranusseparating · 5.3° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 5.6° orb
MarstrineJupiterapplying · 6.6° orb
SunconjunctionSaturnapplying · 6.7° orb
SaturnoppositionUranusapplying · 6.7° orb
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
Dr. Dre’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°12′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 19°30′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°43′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 4°59′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°40′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Neptune 0.5°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.8°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.8°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.1°
- Hygiea square Moon 2.1°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.8°
Dr. Dre’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Dr. Dre’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · 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 Mercury · Jupiter, Neptune, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Neptune, VenusAn 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.
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.0°
- Moon quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Moon 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.4°
Dr. Dre’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 9 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Cancer | Moon in Libra, house 5 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 9 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 9 | Mars, Uranus, Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 9 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 4 | Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Taurus, house 12 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 10 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 4 | Sun, Mercury, Venus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 6 | Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 4 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 9 | Jupiter | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Dr. Dre’s cards
Computed from February 18, 1965. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dr. Dre’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6078 (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 Commondr3ads, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dr. Dre at Wikipedia, drdre.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, 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 Dr. Dre.
Quick answers about Dr. Dre’s chart
- How old is Dr. Dre?
- Dr. Dre is 61 years old, born February 18, 1965 in Compton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dr. Dre?
- Dr. Dre is an Aquarius: born February 18, 1965, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
- What is Dr. Dre's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 18, 1965 birth.
- What time was Dr. Dre born?
- 10:56 local time in Compton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Dr. Dre's rising sign?
- Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 10:56 birth time in Compton, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Dr. Dre's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Dr. Dre's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Dr. Dre's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dr. Dre's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
