Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight (born May 28, 1944, Atlanta, United States), aged 82, is an American singer (born 1944). Knight's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, National Medal of Arts and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Gladys Knight’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Gladys
Gladys Knight’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gladys in the U.S.?
#3224
US rank in 2025
~267,741
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,901 American girls and 7 boys named Gladys in 1944: 137th among girls and 2,961st among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gladys’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on G (7) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gladys’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green
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 1944, 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 Gladys apart
The Kennedy Center Honors came in 2022, when Gladys Knight was 78.
Gladys Knight was 8 when the work began in 1952.
Wikipedia files Gladys Knight under Converts to Mormonism from Roman Catholicism, Knight family (show business) and Booker T. Washington High School (Georgia) alumni.
Rudy Giuliani 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.
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Kennedy Center Honors (2022) and National Medal of Arts (2023)
- Working from
- 1952
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
What the chart says
Gladys, according to the stars
Core essence
Gladys is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Gladys needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Gladys needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Gladys needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Gladys wants to be loved
Gladys wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Gladys is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Gladys creates
How Gladys makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Gladys 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: Gladys is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Gladys is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Gladys 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 Gladys's birth date. Working below.
Where Gladys sits
Six lines
Gladys’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 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 night
Dedicate a star to Gladys Knight
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Atlanta 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 Atlanta that night
Computed for 33.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Atlanta was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 76.0° up.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Atlanta sits at 33.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −56.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Atlanta on any night.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon up and 41% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Gladys's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · No Water planets
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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Gladys Knight's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Gladys Knight was born on May 28, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Gladys Knight's birth date, May 28, 1944, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Gladys’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gladys Knight's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gladys Knight combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Gladys’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Leo 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
stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Gladys’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.2° to 2.1° orb
Gladys’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.7° to 2.3° orb
Gladys’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.8° to 3.0° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.5° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto5.6° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
Gladys’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 9°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 22°38′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 26°17′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 0°12′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Saturn 0.8°
- Chiron square Uranus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.4°
- Chiron square Sun 2.6°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.9°
- Chiron trine Mercury 3.0°
Gladys’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Gladys’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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 semi-square Saturn 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.9°
Born the same day as Gladys
Rudy Giuliani was born on May 28, 1944 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Atlanta, at 33.7°N, nothing below −56.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Gladys
Other actors
- Priscilla Presley1945
- Dennis Farina1944
- Marvin Hamlisch1944
- Mick Jagger1943
- Christine Kaufmann1945
- Diana Ross1944
Born in United States
- Vernor VingeAmerican mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer
- Diana RossAmerican singer and actress
- Rudy GiulianiAmerican attorney and politician (born 1944)
- David J. WinelandAmerican physicist
- Anthony HealdAmerican actor
- Craig T. NelsonAmerican actor and comedian (born 1944)
More charts like Gladys’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Noel GallagherBritish singer and guitarist
- MorrisseyBritish singer and songwriter
- Lakshmi MittalIndian steel magnate
Born in Monkey years
- Deniz GülTurkish association football player (born 2004)
- El Hadji Malick DioufSenegalese footballer (born 2004)
- Ayoube AmaimouniMoroccan footballer
Also born on May 28
- Kylie Minogue1968
- Marco Rubio1971
- Carey Mulligan1985
- Cameron Boyce1999
- Rudy Giuliani1944
- Lukas Gage1995
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Barbara PalvinHungarian model
- Angela WhiteAustralian pornographic actress, pornographic director, and model
- Aliko DangoteNigerian businessperson
Other Gemini Monkey charts
- Linda PastanAmerican writer
- Murray Leinsternovelist, short story writer
- Abdoulaye SeckSenegalese footballer (born 1992)
- Andreas SchjelderupNorwegian footballer (born 2004)
Other Tidal Healers
- Jordan GoodwinAmerican basketball player
- Devin VassellAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Justin EdwardsAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Jase RichardsonAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Jacinda ArdernPrime Minister of New Zealand
- Tomas TranströmerSwedish poet, psychologist and translator
- Salman KhanIndian actor and producer
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Gladys’s cards
Computed from May 28, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gladys’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235952 (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 United States House of Representatives - Office of Ruben Gallego, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gladys Knight.
Quick answers about Gladys Knight’s chart
- How old is Gladys Knight?
- Gladys Knight is 82 years old, born May 28, 1944 in Atlanta, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gladys Knight?
- Gladys Knight is a Gemini: born May 28, 1944, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Gladys Knight's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1944 birth.
- What is Gladys Knight's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gladys Knight's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gladys Knight's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gladys Knight's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
