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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~267,741
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gladys’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Gladys Knight, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Gladys’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto2.1° orb
Gladys’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.5° orb
Gladys’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileMars3.5° to 3.9° orb
Gladys’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussextileMars4.0° to 4.7° orb
Gladys’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
Gladys’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineNeptune5.2° to 6.1° orb
Gladys’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquarePluto5.6° to 6.4° orb
Gladys’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironVirgo 9°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Gladys turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresCancer 22°38′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Gladys is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 26°17′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Gladys is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 0°12′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Gladys carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Gladys exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Gladys’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Gladys is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Gladys’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gladys Knight, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Gladys
Rudy Giuliani was born on May 28, 1944 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Gladys’s cards
Every card is computed from May 28, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Gladys Knight, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Gladys’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235952, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by United States House of Representatives - Office of Ruben Gallego, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gladys Knight at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
- 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 time was Gladys Knight born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Gladys Knight's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 28, 1944 birth date.
- What is Gladys Knight's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 28, 1944 birth date.
- 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.
