Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley (born January 8, 1935, Tupelo, United States, 04:35; died 1977), was an American singer and actor. Best-known releases include Elvis Presley, Elvis Is Back! and From Elvis in Memphis. Presley's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Elvis Presley’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Elvis
Elvis Presley’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Elvis in the U.S.?
#1328
US rank in 2025
~18,123
Americans share it since 1881
1957
its peak year
Elvis ranked 907th among boys and 2,790th among girls in 1935, the year of this birth, with 49 American boys and 10 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elvis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on E (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elvis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
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 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 1934, 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 Elvis apart
Elvis Presley took the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1971, at 36.
The classrooms behind this chart: Humes Preparatory Academy Middle School.
The working life starts in 1954, at 19.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Graceland.
On the family side, Elvis Presley was born to Gladys Presley and Vernon Presley, married Priscilla Presley and raised one child.
Stephen Hawking (1942) and Kim Jong-un (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Humes Preparatory Academy Middle School
- Instruments
- guitar, piano, bass guitar and voice
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2018), Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1971) and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986)
- Working from
- 1954
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Graceland
- Sport
- karate
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 216
What the chart says
Elvis, according to the stars
Core essence
Elvis is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Elvis 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, Elvis is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Elvis needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Elvis wants to be loved
Elvis 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 Elvis you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Elvis creates
How Elvis makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Elvis builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Elvis is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Elvis is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Elvis fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Elvis's birth date. Working below.
Where Elvis sits
Six lines
Elvis’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 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 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 Elvis Presley
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Read from the sky above Tupelo at 04:35, Elvis Presley’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Tupelo that night
Computed for 34.26°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Tupelo was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 76.3° up.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 34.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tupelo on any night.
Sun 29° below the horizon, Moon down and 15% lit at waxing crescent.
What Elvis's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Peacemaker 天同 in 亥
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Uranus · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Elvis Presley's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Elvis Presley's birth date, January 8, 1935, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Elvis’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Elvis Presley's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house and Neptune in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Elvis Presley's timed chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Elvis Presley combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Elvis’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
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 0.8° orb
Elvis’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 1.8° orb
Elvis’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
VenussquareUranusseparating · 1.9° orb
Elvis’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
UranussquarePlutoseparating · 2.4° orb
SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 2.8° orb
MercuryoppositionPlutoapplying · 2.8° orb
JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 3.6° orb
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 4.2° orb
VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 4.2° orb
SunsquareMarsseparating · 4.4° orb
MoonsextileUranusseparating · 4.5° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 5.1° orb
MercurysquareUranusapplying · 5.2° orb
MoonconjunctionSaturnseparating · 6.3° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 7.1° orb
SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Elvis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 5°16′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 26°59′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 18°06′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 7°40′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°17′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Uranus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.9°
- Ceres opposition Venus 2.4°
Elvis’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Elvis’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 Uranus · Mercury, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Venus, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Moon 0.2°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Moon biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°
Elvis’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 12 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 3 | Sun, Mercury, Venus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 5 | Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 10 | Moon | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 11 | Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 4 | Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 2 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 2 | Neptune | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 2 | Mars | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 8 | Jupiter | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 relatives of Elvis Presley also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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More charts like Elvis’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Dominic FikeAmerican musician
- Coco JonesAmerican actress and singer
- Andy BiersackAmerican singer
Born in Dog years
- Mary J. BligeAmerican singer
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- Kristin KreukCanadian actress
Also born on January 8
- Stephen Hawking1942
- Kim Jong-un1984
- David Bowie1947
- Cynthia Erivo1987
- Damiano David1999
- Carolina Herrera1939
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghConsort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021
- Wangari Muta MaathaiKenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
- George HarrisonEnglish musician and member of the Beatles
Other Capricorn Dog charts
- Jeremy RennerAmerican actor, producer, and musician
- Ava GardnerAmerican actress
- Larisa LatyninaSoviet-Russian artistic gymnast and ballet dancer
- JisooSouth Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and model
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Roddy DoyleIrish author
- Gerd FaltingsGerman mathematician
- Heisuke HironakaJapanese mathematician
- Leon M. LedermanAmerican mathematician and physicist
Other Sagittarius risings with documented times
- Goldie HawnAmerican actress
- Jessica BielAmerican actress
- Jamie Lee CurtisAmerican actress and author
- Eartha KittAmerican singer and actress
Famous people with Life Path 9
- George Roy HillAmerican film director
- Daniel KeyesAmerican author
- Phil FoglioAmerican cartoonist
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Elvis’s cards
Computed from January 8, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elvis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q303 (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 MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elvis Presley at Wikipedia, elvisthemusic.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 Elvis Presley.
Quick answers about Elvis Presley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Elvis Presley?
- Elvis Presley was a Capricorn: born January 8, 1935, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What was Elvis Presley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1935 birth.
- What time was Elvis Presley born?
- 04:35 local time in Tupelo, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Elvis Presley's rising sign?
- Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 04:35 birth time in Tupelo, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Elvis Presley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Elvis Presley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Elvis Presley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Elvis Presley's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
