Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa (born December 21, 1940, Baltimore, United States; died 1993), was an American musician. Best-known releases include Hot Rats, Uncle Meat and Joe's Garage. Zappa's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Frank Zappa’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius or Capricorn (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Frank
How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?
#514
US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
In 1940, 10,595 American boys and 36 girls were registered Frank — 20th among boys and 1,227th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Moonlight white
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 1940, 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 Frank apart
Emmanuel Macron (1977) and Jane Fonda (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Frank and watch them fall for you again.
How Frank creates
How Frank makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Frank creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Frank is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Frank is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Frank runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Frank's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Baltimore at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 2.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Baltimore sits at 39.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Baltimore at all: they sit past the −50.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon down and 50% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Baltimore, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1993.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frank Zappa: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · No Air planets · 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 →The quick version
Sagittarius or Capricorn Sun
Frank Zappa was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Frank Zappa was born on December 21, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Frank Zappa's birth date, December 21, 1940, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank Zappa's date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Virgo or Libra 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
stableSunsquareNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb
Frank’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionUranus1.9° to 2.6° orb
Frank’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.9° orb
Frank’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableVenustrinePluto2.2° to 3.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.4° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.8° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.3° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.9° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.6° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Frank’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 0°19′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 2°58′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 12°15′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 25°40′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 21°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Venus 0.8°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.9°
Frank’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Frank’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Frank’s cards
Computed from December 21, 1940. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q127330 (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 Mark Estabrook, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frank Zappa at Wikipedia, zappa.com, 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 Frank Zappa.
Quick answers about Frank Zappa’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frank Zappa?
- Frank Zappa was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Frank Zappa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 21, 1940 birth.
- How tall was Frank Zappa?
- Frank Zappa was 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Frank Zappa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frank Zappa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frank Zappa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frank Zappa's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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