Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu (born Erica Abi Wright; February 26, 1971, Dallas, United States, 01:10), aged 55, is an American neo-soul singer. Badu is best known for Badu Pussy.
Erykah Badu’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Erykah
Erykah Badu’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Erykah in the U.S.?
#13733
US rank in 2025
~1,554
Americans share it since 1997
1997
its peak year
US records hold Erykah from 1997 onward, though not for 1971 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1997 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Erykah’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Erica Abi Wright, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Erykah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Erykah apart
Badu Pussy. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through Grambling State University and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Erykah Badu was 23 when the work began in 1994.
On the family side, Erykah Badu was raised 2 children.
Johnny Cash (1932) and Helen Clark (1950) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Badu Pussy
- Educated at
- Grambling State University and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
- Instruments
- voice
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist
- Working from
- 1994
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Erykah, according to the stars
Core essence
Erykah feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Erykah is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Erykah 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 Erykah 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 Erykah wants to be loved
Erykah 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 Erykah you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Erykah creates
How Erykah makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Erykah 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: Erykah 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Erykah is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Erykah leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Erykah has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Erykah's birth date. Working below.
Where Erykah sits
Six lines
Erykah’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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 Erykah Badu
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dallas on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Dallas at 01:10, Erykah Badu’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Dallas that night
Computed for 32.78°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Dallas was Zosma, in Leo, 77.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Dallas sits at 32.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Dallas at all: they sit past the −57.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 65° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Erica Abi Wright
- Known as
- Erykah Badu
- Born in
- Dallas, United States
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Erykah's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 寅.
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Erykah Badu's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What Pisces means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Erykah Badu was born on February 26, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Erykah Badu's birth date, February 26, 1971, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Erykah’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Erykah Badu's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Moon in the 4th house, Mars in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Neptune in the 1st house and Pluto in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Erykah Badu's timed chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Erykah Badu combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Erykah’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), 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
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 1.6° orb
Erykah’s core identity grinds against their growth.
MoonsquareMarsapplying · 1.7° orb
Erykah’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 2.4° orb
Erykah’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 2.5° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 3.1° orb
MoonsextileVenusapplying · 3.6° orb
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 4.0° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.1° orb
MercurysquareJupiterapplying · 5.5° orb
VenustrinePlutoapplying · 5.6° orb
VenustrineSaturnseparating · 6.2° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Erykah’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAries 7°56′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 8°01′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 0°58′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 6°04′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 19°35′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Moon 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.8°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Ascendant 2.1°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.4°
- Eros trine Ascendant 3.0°
Erykah’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter15 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars, Neptune; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Moon; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Erykah’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
Erykah’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 1 | Mars, Jupiter, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 6 | Venus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 11 | Mercury | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 1 | Sun, Moon | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 2 | Saturn | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 4 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Leo | Sun in Pisces, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 3 | Pluto | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 2 | Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 10 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Also born on February 26
- Johnny Cash1932
- Helen Clark1950
- Pepe1983
- Ahmed Zewail1946
- Emmanuel Adebayor1984
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- Marilu HennerAmerican actress (born 1952)
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Other Tidal Storytellers
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- James LevineAmerican conductor and pianist
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- Antonio RüdigerGerman association football player (born 1993)
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Erykah’s cards
Computed from February 26, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Erykah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223875 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Radiobums at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Erykah Badu at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, 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 Erykah Badu.
Quick answers about Erykah Badu’s chart
- How old is Erykah Badu?
- Erykah Badu is 55 years old, born February 26, 1971 in Dallas, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Erykah Badu?
- Erykah Badu is a Pisces: born February 26, 1971, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
- What is Erykah Badu's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 26, 1971 birth.
- What time was Erykah Badu born?
- 01:10 local time in Dallas, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Erykah Badu's rising sign?
- Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 01:10 birth time in Dallas, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Erykah Badu's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Erykah Badu's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 7°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Erykah Badu's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 19°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Erykah Badu's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (15 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars, Neptune; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
