Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury (born September 5, 1946, Zanzibar City, Tanzania; died 1991), was a British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen. Mercury is best remembered for Don't Stop Me Now, We Are the Champions and Bohemian Rhapsody. Mercury's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Freddie Mercury’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Freddie
Freddie Mercury’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Freddie in the U.S.?
#1510
US rank in 2025
~83,643
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1946, 1,591 American boys and 217 girls were registered Freddie — 151st among boys and 537th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Freddie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on F (6) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Freddie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, 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 Freddie apart
Love of My Life, We Are the Champions and Don't Stop Me Now. That is the work the name is attached to.
Freddie Mercury was taught at St. Peter's Boys School and St. Mary's School.
Freddie Mercury was 23 when the work began in 1969.
The record gives bronchopneumonia as the cause, and Kensal Green Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, Freddie Mercury was born to Jer Bulsara and Bomi Bulsara.
On Wikipedia the categories read British bisexual musicians, Alumni of Ealing Art College and AIDS-related deaths in England.
Woo Kwong Ching Peter shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Love of My Life, We Are the Champions and Don't Stop Me Now
- Educated at
- St. Peter's Boys School, St. Mary's School and Ealing Art College
- Instruments
- guitar, piano, Hammond organ and voice
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song
- Working from
- 1969
- Cause of death
- bronchopneumonia
- Buried at
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and Sultanate of Zanzibar
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 176
What the chart says
Freddie, according to the stars
Core essence
Freddie 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 Freddie is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Freddie wants to be loved
Freddie wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Freddie gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Freddie creates
How Freddie makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Freddie 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: Freddie 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Freddie is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
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. Freddie fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Freddie's birth date. Working below.
Where Freddie sits
Six lines
Freddie’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 night
Dedicate a star to Freddie Mercury
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Zanzibar City 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 Zanzibar City that night
Computed for 6.17°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Dabih stood nearest the zenith over Zanzibar City at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.0° above the horizon in Capricornus.
Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 68 catalog stars above the horizon.
Zanzibar City sits at 6.2°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 70% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Zanzibar City, Tanzania
The death is recorded at Kensington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1991.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Freddie Mercury: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Freddie's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Libra · 1 unaspected planet · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Freddie Mercury at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Freddie Mercury's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 5, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Freddie Mercury was born on September 5, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Freddie Mercury's birth date, September 5, 1946, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Freddie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Freddie Mercury's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Freddie Mercury combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Freddie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 6.9° orb
Freddie’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.9° to 2.7° orb
Freddie’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.3° orb
Freddie’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.3° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 3.8° to 15.7° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 4.4° to 5.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Freddie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 20°50′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 29°41′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 12°09′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 1°28′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 13°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Sun 0.0°
- Chiron trine Uranus 0.7°
- Ceres square Venus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.6°
Freddie’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto
Configurations in Freddie’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Venus, Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.1°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
Born the same day as Freddie
Woo Kwong Ching Peter was born on September 5, 1946 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 68 catalog stars stood above Zanzibar City, at 6.2°S that night, with Dabih nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Freddie
Other composers
- John Paul Jones1946
- Stevie Nicks1948
- Tania León1943
- Bruce Springsteen1949
- Lewis Spratlan1940
- Timothy B. Schmit1947
Born in Tanzania
- Julius NyerereTanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania
- Abdulrazak GurnahTanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948)
- Diamond PlatnumzTanzanian artist, dancer, philanthropist and businessman
More charts like Freddie’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Donald O'ConnorAmerican dancer, singer, and actor
- Stephen FryBritish comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
- Fredric MarchAmerican actor
Born in Dog years
- Christopher NolanEnglish and American filmmaker
- Dorothy HodgkinBritish chemist
- Marjorie EstianoBrazilian actress and singer
Also born on September 5
- Bukayo Saka2001
- Leonardo Araújo1969
- George Lazenby1939
- Chris Hipkins1978
- Rose McGowan1973
- Kat Graham1989
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Jasmine Borrero TookesAmerican model
- Bethany MotaAmerican vlogger
- Brittany BroskiAmerican social media personality
Other Virgo Dog charts
- Paul GauselmannGerman businessman
- Lutz HelmigGerman entrepreneur
- Michael JacksonAmerican singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
- Mother TeresaAlbanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary
Other Tidal Seekers
- Willow SmithAmerican singer and actress
- Dave ChappelleAmerican comedian and actor
- Hunter SchaferAmerican actress, model, and LGBTQ activist
- Marina DiamandisBritish singer
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Changpeng ZhaoCanadian businessman
- Bobi WineUgandan musician, activist, actor and politician
- Richie McCawNew Zealand international rugby union player
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Freddie’s cards
Computed from September 5, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Freddie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15869 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Freddie Mercury at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Freddie Mercury.
Quick answers about Freddie Mercury’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Freddie Mercury?
- Freddie Mercury was a Virgo: born September 5, 1946, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Freddie Mercury's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 5, 1946 birth.
- What was Freddie Mercury's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Freddie Mercury's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Freddie Mercury's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Freddie Mercury's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
