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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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 1880
1959
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Herbie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Herbie sits
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Herbie’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Herbie Hancock, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Gemini 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.
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
Herbie’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° orb
Herbie’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrinePluto5.0° to 6.0° orb
Herbie’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 14°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Herbie is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 6°37′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Herbie caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosCapricorn 5°46′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Herbie is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 13°18′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Herbie needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Herbie is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Herbie’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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Herbie is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Herbie’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Herbie Hancock, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Herbie’s cards
Every card is computed from April 12, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
Tap to flip
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
No birth time is on public record for Herbie Hancock, 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
Herbie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105875, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was Herbie Hancock 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 Herbie Hancock's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 12, 1940 birth date.
- What is Herbie Hancock's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 12, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
