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Hozier

Hozier (born Andrew John Hozier-Byrne; March 17, 1990, Bray, Ireland), aged 36, is an Irish musician and singer. Best-known releases include Hozier. Hozier's honours include Time 100.

Hozier’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Hozier’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

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

What Hozier’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

1

Soul Urge · independence

22

Personality · quietly formidable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on W (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

Hozier’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

The record

What sets Hozier apart

The Time 100 came in 2025, when Hozier was 35.

Study took Hozier to St Gerard's School and Trinity College, Dublin.

Hozier was 18 when the work began in 2008.

Nat King Cole (1919) and Kurt Russell (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
St Gerard's School and Trinity College, Dublin
Instruments
piano, acoustic-electric guitar and voice
Awards
Time 100 (2025)
Working from
2008
Wikipedia editions
46

What the chart says

Hozier, according to the stars

Core essence

Hozier feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Hozier is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Hozier wants to be loved

Hozier wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Hozier be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Hozier creates

How Hozier makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Hozier creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Hozier is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Hozier 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Hozier goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Hozier's birth date. Working below.

Where Hozier sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Hozier

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hozier

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Hozier

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hozier

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

PracticalVisionary
Hozier

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hozier

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Hozier

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bray on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Hozier’s birth-night reference starMuscidayellow · Ursa MajorMuscida, in Ursa Major. A yellow star, 82.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Muscida →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 15.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bray that night

Computed for 53.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Bray at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 7.8° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 53.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 66% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Andrew John Hozier-Byrne
Known as
Hozier
Born in
Bray, Ireland

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

How unusual Hozier's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Fire 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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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Hozier's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 17, 1990, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Horse

Open road, open heart.

Hozier was born on March 17, 1990, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Hozier's birth date, March 17, 1990, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Hozier’s chart

Hozier’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.6° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4.9° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 5.1° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 6.4° orbSun in Pisces · 26°38′☉26°Moon in Sagittarius · 3°30′☽3°Mercury in Pisces · 25°05′☿25°Venus in Aquarius · 10°52′♀10°Mars in Aquarius · 4°20′♂4°Jupiter in Cancer · 1°30′♃1°Saturn in Capricorn · 23°29′♄23°Uranus in Capricorn · 9°16′♅9°Neptune in Capricorn · 14°20′♆14°Pluto in Scorpio · 17°35′ · retrograde♇℞17°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn0.7° to 2.5° orb

    Hozier’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 2.0° orb

    Hozier’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

    Hozier’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.4° to 5.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune5.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.5° to 6.6° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.7° to 7.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 1.4° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.9° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 3.5° to 13.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 10°34′

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 26°09′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 7°13′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 25°17′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Sun 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.7°

Hozier’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Hozier’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 quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°

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Hozier’s cards

Computed from March 17, 1990. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hozier’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16233232 (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 Neon Tommy/Katie Buenneke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hozier at Wikipedia, hozier.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, 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 Hozier.

Quick answers about Hozier’s chart

How old is Hozier?
Hozier is 36 years old, born March 17, 1990 in Bray, Ireland.
What zodiac sign is Hozier?
Hozier is a Pisces: born March 17, 1990, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Hozier's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 17, 1990 birth.
What is Hozier's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Hozier's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Hozier's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Hozier's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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