Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock (born April 12, 1940, Chicago, United States), aged 86, is an American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940). Hancock has served as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Hancock's honours include Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals and Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.
Herbie Hancock’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Herbie
Herbie Hancock’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Herbie in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~1,094
Americans share it since 1913
1959
its peak year
In 1940, 18 American boys were registered Herbie — 1,655th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herbie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on E (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
Herbie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Herbie apart
Lisa Gerrard (1961) and Claire Danes (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Herbie, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbie leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Herbie is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Herbie processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Herbie needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Herbie wants to be loved
Herbie wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Herbie like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Herbie creates
How Herbie 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. Herbie 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: Herbie 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 3 is the creative. Herbie 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Herbie scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Herbie's birth date. Working below.
Where Herbie sits
Six lines
Herbie’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Herbie Hancock
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 2.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
Sun 25° below the horizon, Moon up and 25% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Herbie'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.
Score your own chart →Herbie Hancock at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Herbie Hancock's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 12, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Herbie Hancock was born on April 12, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Herbie Hancock's birth date, April 12, 1940, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Herbie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbie Hancock's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Herbie Hancock combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Herbie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Gemini 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
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 1.0° orb
Herbie’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.8° to 1.2° orb
Herbie’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.2° to 2.2° orb
Herbie’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.0° to 6.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 4.0° to 15.8° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 4.3° to 5.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Herbie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 14°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 6°37′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 5°46′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 13°18′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres square Mars 0.6°
- Ceres square Venus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.9°
Herbie’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Herbie’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.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Venus 1.2°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.2°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
More people like Herbie
Other film score composers
- Leonard Bernstein1918
- Charlie Chaplin1889
Born in United States
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- Thomas A. SteitzAmerican biochemist
- Peter FondaAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Alexei PanshinAmerican writer and critic
- Steve MasonAmerican poet and military officer
- Martin SheenAmerican actor (born 1940)
More charts like Herbie’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Nick RobinsonAmerican actor
- MacKenzie ScottAmerican philanthropist and novelist
- Jonathan GroffAmerican actor and singer
Born in Dragon years
- Melissa GilbertAmerican actress
- Justin HartleyAmerican actor (born 1977)
- Brooke HoganAmerican singer and television personality
Also born on April 12
- Lisa Gerrard1961
- Claire Danes1979
- Shannen Doherty1971
- Brendon Urie1987
- Julia Koch1962
- Vegetta7771989
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Odell Beckham Jr.American football player (born 1992)
- Najee HarrisAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Aaron StinnieAmerican football player (born 1994)
Other Aries Dragon charts
- Maxence LacroixFrench footballer (born 2000)
- Juan Manuel SanabriaUruguayan association football player
- Josip StanišićCroatian association football player (born 2000)
- Ivor PandurCroatian association football player
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Gabriel MagalhãesBrazilian footballer (born 1997)
- Ollie WatkinsEnglish footballer (born 1995)
- Leandro TrossardBelgian association football player (born 1994)
- Kristoffer AjerNorwegian association football player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Isaiah McDuffieAmerican football player
- Kingsley EnagbareAmerican football player
- Geno SmithAmerican football player (born 1990)
From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Herbie’s cards
Computed from April 12, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herbie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105875 (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 pixgremlin: http://www.aworan.com c/o Pix Gremlin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Herbie Hancock at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Herbie Hancock.
Quick answers about Herbie Hancock’s chart
- How old is Herbie Hancock?
- Herbie Hancock is 86 years old, born April 12, 1940 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Herbie Hancock?
- Herbie Hancock is an Aries: born April 12, 1940, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Herbie Hancock's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 12, 1940 birth.
- What is Herbie Hancock's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Herbie Hancock's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Herbie Hancock's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Herbie Hancock's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
