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Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple (born September 13, 1977, Upper West Side, United States, 09:59), aged 49, is an American musician. Best-known releases include Tidal, Fetch the Bolt Cutters and Extraordinary Machine.

Fiona Apple’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Fiona Apple’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 Fiona in the U.S.?

#470

US rank in 2025

~33,964

Americans share it since 1942

2017

its peak year

Fiona ranked 1,763rd in 1977, the year of this birth, with 58 American girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Fiona’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on F (6) and closes on A (1).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Fiona’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

The record

What sets Fiona apart

Training came by way of St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School and Rhodes Preparatory School.

The working life starts in 1994, at 17.

The family line: born to Brandon Maggart.

Roald Dahl (1916) and Niall Horan (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School, Rhodes Preparatory School and Alexander Hamilton High School
Instruments
piano and voice
Nominated for
Shortlist Music Prize and Grammy Award for Best New Artist
Working from
1994
Wikipedia editions
47

What the chart says

Fiona, according to the stars

Core essence

Fiona notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Fiona is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Fiona is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Fiona needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Fiona wants to be loved

Fiona wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Fiona openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Fiona creates

How Fiona makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Fiona 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: Fiona 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Fiona 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 Fiona leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Fiona does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Fiona's birth date. Working below.

Where Fiona sits

Six lines

Fiona’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Fiona

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Fiona

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Fiona

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Fiona

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Fiona

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Fiona

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Fiona Apple

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Upper West Side on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above Upper West Side at 09:59, Fiona Apple’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Upper West Side that night

Computed for 40.79°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Upper West Side at the birth hour: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 8.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Upper West Side on any night.

The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat -36° below the horizon.

What Fiona'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 辰

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 4/1

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Virgo · Born on the New Moon · A bowl chart

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.

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Fiona Apple at a glance

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Fiona Apple's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Fire Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Fiona Apple was born on September 13, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Fiona Apple's birth date, September 13, 1977, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Fiona’s chart

Fiona’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.6° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 2.4° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.5° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.1° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 5.3° orbSun in Virgo · 20°40′ · house 11☉20°Moon in Virgo · 23°05′ · house 11☽23°Mercury in Virgo · 7°02′ · house 11 · retrograde☿℞7°Venus in Leo · 19°03′ · house 10♀19°Mars in Cancer · 7°36′ · house 9♂7°Jupiter in Cancer · 3°32′ · house 9♃3°Saturn in Leo · 24°19′ · house 10♄24°Uranus in Scorpio · 9°09′ · house 1♅9°Neptune in Sagittarius · 13°28′ · house 2♆13°Pluto in Libra · 13°10′ · house 12♇13°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 0°11′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 0°11′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 5°51′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 5°51′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantScorpio
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.3° orb

    Fiona’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercurysextileMarsseparating · 0.6° orb

    Fiona’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MarstrineUranusapplying · 1.5° orb

    Fiona’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • MercurysextileUranusseparating · 2.1° orb

  • SunconjunctionMoonseparating · 2.4° orb

  • MercurysextileJupiterapplying · 3.5° orb

  • MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 4.1° orb

  • VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.3° orb

  • VenustrineNeptuneseparating · 5.6° orb

  • MarssquarePlutoapplying · 5.6° orb

  • JupitertrineUranusapplying · 5.6° orb

  • MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 6.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Fiona’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°13′ · House 7

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 1°06′ · House 1

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 28°02′ · House 2

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 15°33′ · House 12

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 15°59′ · House 8

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Ascendant 0.9°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.7°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Ascendant 2.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.1°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.4°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 2.4°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.8°

Fiona’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury14 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Moon; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Fiona’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Moon, MercuryThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.1°
  • Moon semi-square Uranus 1.1°
  • Moon semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°

Fiona’s houses

Fiona’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 12Uranusself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Cancer, house 9Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Leo, house 10emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 1emptyhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 2emptycreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Cancer, house 9emptywork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Leo, house 10emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Virgo, house 11emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Virgo, house 11Mars, Jupiterbelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Virgo, house 11Venus, Saturncareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Virgo, house 11Sun, Moon, Mercuryfriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Leo, house 10Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Fiona’s cards

Computed from September 13, 1977. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Fiona’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q228968 (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 Sachyn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Fiona Apple at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Fiona Apple.

Quick answers about Fiona Apple’s chart

How old is Fiona Apple?
Fiona Apple is 49 years old, born September 13, 1977 in Upper West Side, United States.
What zodiac sign is Fiona Apple?
Fiona Apple is a Virgo: born September 13, 1977, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What is Fiona Apple's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 13, 1977 birth.
What time was Fiona Apple born?
09:59 local time in Upper West Side, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Fiona Apple's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 09:59 birth time in Upper West Side, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Fiona Apple's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Fiona Apple's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 5°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Fiona Apple's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 15°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Fiona Apple's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Moon; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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