Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman (born September 15, 1945, Augusta, United States; died 2019), was an American opera singer. Norman's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Jessye Norman’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Jessye
Jessye Norman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Jessye in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~449
Americans share it since 1889
1992
its peak year
In 1945, 8 American girls were registered Jessye — 3,513th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jessye’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jessye’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets Jessye apart
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jessye, according to the stars
Core essence
Jessye notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jessye is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Jessye wants to be loved
Jessye wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Jessye openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Jessye creates
How Jessye makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Jessye creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Jessye is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jessye is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jessye does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Jessye's birth date. Working below.
Where Jessye sits
Six lines
Jessye’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Jessye Norman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Augusta 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 Augusta that night
Computed for 33.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Augusta at 9 p.m. that evening: Sulafat of Lyra, within 3.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Augusta sits at 33.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −56.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Augusta on any night.
The Moon, 63% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 18° below the horizon.
How unusual Jessye's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
A bundled chart · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Jessye Norman's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 15, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Jessye Norman was born on September 15, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Jessye Norman's birth date, September 15, 1945, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Jessye’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jessye Norman's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Jessye Norman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Jessye’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Jessye’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 7.4° orb
Jessye’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb
Jessye’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.8° to 1.4° orb
stableVenussextileUranus1.1° to 2.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.1° to 1.3° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.3° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.5° to 5.5° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.9° to 16.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 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.
Jessye’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 6°53′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°51′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 19°23′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 6°14′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.6°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.8°
- Chiron square Mars 2.3°
- Ceres square Venus 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.4°
Jessye’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Jessye’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.
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
More people like Jessye
Other opera singers
- Joan Sutherland1926
- Leontyne Price1927
- Harve Presnell1933
- Marilyn Horne1934
- Grace Bumbry1937
- Justino Díaz1940
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More charts like Jessye’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Sarah RoemerAmerican actress
- Marianne AminoffSwedish actress
- Lewis BlackAmerican comedian and actor
Born in Rooster years
- Walter HoodAmerican architect
- Keith RaboisAmerican businessman
- JuJu WatkinsAmerican basketball player
Also born on September 15
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Władysław ReymontPolish novelist
- Robert HofstadterAmerican physicist and Nobel laureate
- Robert Andrews MillikanAmerican physicist
Other Virgo Rooster charts
- Chandra WilsonAmerican actress and director
- Bryson DeChambeauAmerican professional golfer
- Shay RudolphAmerican actress
- Harve PresnellAmerican actor and singer
Other Radiant Seekers
- Helen MirrenBritish actress (born 1945)
- Lamar OdomAmerican basketball player (born 1979)
- Gavin RossdaleBritish musician
- Ann Romneywife of Mitt Romney, First Lady of Massachusetts
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Justin ReidAmerican football player (born 1997)
- DK MetcalfAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Aaron StinnieAmerican football player (born 1994)
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Jessye’s cards
Computed from September 15, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jessye’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q240937 (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 Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jessye Norman at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jessye Norman.
Quick answers about Jessye Norman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jessye Norman?
- Jessye Norman was a Virgo: born September 15, 1945, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Jessye Norman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 15, 1945 birth.
- What was Jessye Norman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jessye Norman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jessye Norman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jessye Norman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
