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Glenn Frey

Glenn Frey (born November 6, 1948, Detroit, United States; died 2016), was an American rock musician. Frey's honours include Kennedy Center Honors.

Glenn Frey’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Glenn Frey’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Glenn in the U.S.?

#1443

US rank in 2025

~250,778

Americans share it since 1880

1962

its peak year

In 1948, 4,740 American boys and 35 girls were registered Glenn — 73rd among boys and 1,584th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Glenn’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on G (7) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Glenn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1948, 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 Glenn apart

The Kennedy Center Honors came in 2016, when Glenn Frey was 68.

The schooling ran through Royal Oak High School and Oakland Community College.

Glenn Frey was 18 when the work began in 1966.

Cause of death is recorded as rheumatoid arthritis.

The family line: raised 2 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from arthritis, American country rock musicians and Asylum Records artists.

Sally Field (1946) and Ethan Hawke (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Royal Oak High School, Oakland Community College and Dondero High School
Instruments
piano, guitar, organ and drum kit
Awards
Kennedy Center Honors (2016)
Working from
1966
Cause of death
rheumatoid arthritis
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
52

What the chart says

Glenn, according to the stars

Core essence

Glenn does not do surface. The core of Glenn is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Glenn is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Glenn is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Glenn needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Glenn wants to be loved

Glenn 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. Glenn gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Glenn creates

How Glenn makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Glenn creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Glenn is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Glenn is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Glenn has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Glenn's birth date. Working below.

Where Glenn sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Glenn

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Glenn

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Glenn

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Glenn

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Glenn

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Glenn

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Glenn Frey

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night

Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Detroit was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 74.9° up.

Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Detroit sits at 42.3°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 Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 35% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Detroit, United States

The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2016.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Glenn Frey: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Glenn's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A bowl chart · 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.

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Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Glenn Frey's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 6, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Glenn Frey was born on November 6, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Glenn Frey's birth date, November 6, 1948, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Glenn’s chart

Glenn’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.7° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.3° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.7° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.5° orbSun in Scorpio · 14°12′☉14°Moon in Capricorn · 21°56′☽21°Mercury in Libra · 25°39′☿25°Venus in Libra · 6°30′♀6°Mars in Sagittarius · 14°53′♂14°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 28°15′♃28°Saturn in Virgo · 4°45′♄4°Uranus in Cancer · 0°10′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Libra · 13°52′♆13°Pluto in Leo · 16°32′♇16°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarssextileNeptune0.7° to 1.4° orb

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

  • stableMarstrinePluto1.3° to 2.0° orb

    Glenn’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsquarePluto1.8° to 2.8° orb

    Glenn’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.8° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.1° to 3.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.9° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus5.7° to 7.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn6.4° to 6.6° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune6.8° to 7.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 27°10′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 17°48′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 21°11′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°20′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.2°
  • Ceres trine Mars 2.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.9°

Glenn’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Glenn’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°

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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained

Glenn’s cards

Computed from November 6, 1948. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Glenn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q472051 (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 Steve Alexander, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Glenn Frey at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Glenn Frey.

Quick answers about Glenn Frey’s chart

What zodiac sign was Glenn Frey?
Glenn Frey was a Scorpio: born November 6, 1948, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Glenn Frey's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 6, 1948 birth.
How tall was Glenn Frey?
Glenn Frey was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Glenn Frey's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Glenn Frey's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Glenn Frey's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Glenn Frey's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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