Enya
Enya (born May 17, 1961, Gaoth Dobhair, Ireland), aged 65, is an Irish singer. Enya is best known for Wild Child, Caribbean Blue and Only Time. Enya's honours include Grammy Award for Best New Age Album and Echo Pop Award for the Hit of the Year.
Enya’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Enya
Enya’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Enya in the U.S.?
#4007
US rank in 2025
~1,274
Americans share it since 1989
2002
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Enya falls under that line for 1961. Its peak came in 2002, and 1,274 Americans have carried it since 1989.
US Social Security Administration public records
Enya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 Enya apart
Only Time, Caribbean Blue and Wild Child. That is the work the name is attached to.
Enya was 19 when the work began in 1980.
On the family side, Enya was born to Leo Brennan.
On Wikipedia the categories read Irish women pop singers, Celtic fusion musicians and Women film score composers.
Edward Jenner (1749) and Nikki Reed (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Only Time, Caribbean Blue and Wild Child
- Instruments
- voice and piano
- Awards
- Echo Pop Award for the Hit of the Year (2002) and Grammy Award for Best New Age Album (2006)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
- Working from
- 1980
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 114
What the chart says
Enya, according to the stars
Core essence
Enya is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Enya is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Enya wants to be loved
Enya wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Enya creates
How Enya makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Enya creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Enya is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Enya is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Enya fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Enya's birth date. Working below.
Where Enya sits
Six lines
Enya’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Enya
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Gaoth Dobhair 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 Gaoth Dobhair that night
Computed for 55.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Gaoth Dobhair was Merak, in Ursa Major, 88.0° up.
Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Gaoth Dobhair sits at 55.1°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 10% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -4° down.
How unusual Enya's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Neptune · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Enya at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Enya's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 17, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Enya was born on May 17, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Enya's birth date, May 17, 1961, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Enya’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Enya's date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Enya combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Enya’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.8° to 1.3° orb
Enya’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
Enya’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.0° to 4.0° orb
Enya’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.0° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableVenustrineUranus4.7° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.2° to 7.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.9° to 6.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.2° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.6° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Enya’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°26′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 24°39′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 3°29′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 24°51′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.2°
- Eros square Mars 2.5°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.9°
Enya’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Enya’s chart
T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneAn 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.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
More people like Enya
Other composers
- Lisa Gerrard1961
- Melissa Etheridge1961
- Khaled1960
- Wynton Marsalis1961
- Aaron Jay Kernis1960
- Axl Rose1962
Born in Ireland
- BonoIrish singer
- Anne EnrightIrish writer (born 1962)
- Michael LohanAmerican television personality; father of Lindsay Lohan
- Alison DoodyIrish actress and model
- Roddy DoyleIrish author
- Sinéad O'ConnorIrish singer-songwriter and activist
More charts like Enya’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Cate BlanchettAustralian actor and producer
- Pierre CurieFrench physicist
- Guglielmo MarconiItalian inventor and radio pioneer
Born in Ox years
- Caitlyn JennerAmerican media personality and retired decathlete
- Rooney MaraAmerican actress
- James MarsdenAmerican actor
Also born on May 17
- Edward Jenner1749
- Nikki Reed1988
- Trent Reznor1965
- Ross Butler1990
- Adel Emam1940
- Karrueche Tran1988
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Fabián RuizSpanish footballer
- Çağlar SöyüncüTurkish association football player (born 1996)
- Marc Hagit CucurellaSpanish association football player
Other Taurus Ox charts
- Sasha AlexanderAmerican actress
- John CorbettAmerican actor and country music singer (born 1961)
- Morgan EvansAustralian country music singer
- Derek HoughAmerican dancer
Other Gilded Guardians
- Bella RamseyBritish actor
- Tyler PoseyAmerican actor, musician (b. 1991)
- Bill RancicAmerican businessman
- Jon StewartAmerican comedian, writer, producer, activist, and television host
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Michael OnwenuAmerican football guard
- Jaylen WarrenAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Dylan CookAmerican football player
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Enya’s cards
Computed from May 17, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Enya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q38257 (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 Orlando Sentinel/ Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Enya at Wikipedia, enya.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 Enya.
Quick answers about Enya’s chart
- How old is Enya?
- Enya is 65 years old, born May 17, 1961 in Gaoth Dobhair, Ireland.
- What zodiac sign is Enya?
- Enya is a Taurus: born May 17, 1961, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Enya's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 17, 1961 birth.
- What is Enya's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Enya's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Enya's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Enya's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
