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Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris (born October 20, 1964, Oakland, California, United States), aged 62, is a Vice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025. Harris has held office as deputy district attorney and San Francisco District Attorney. Harris's honours include Thurgood Marshall Award, honorary doctor of the University of Southern California and honorary doctor of the Howard University.

Kamala Harris’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Kamala Harris’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#9767

US rank in 2025

~1,295

Americans share it since 1955

1964

its peak year

The SSA recorded 105 American girls named Kamala in 1964: 1,063rd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kamala’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on K (2) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Kamala’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Kamala apart

The record Kamala Harris is measured by: Superheroes Are Everywhere, Smart on Crime and The Truths We Hold.

The schooling ran through Westmount High School and University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.

Kamala Harris was born to Shyamala Gopalan Harris and Donald J. Harris and married Doug Emhoff.

Wikipedia files Kamala Harris under Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, African-American candidates for the United States Senate and African-American-Asian-American relations.

Elfriede Jelinek (1946) and Snoop Dogg (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Superheroes Are Everywhere, Smart on Crime and The Truths We Hold
Educated at
Westmount High School, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and F.A.C.E. School
Awards
Time 100 (2021), Thurgood Marshall Award (2005) and honorary doctor of the University of Southern California (2015)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English, American English and African American Vernacular English
Wikipedia editions
193

What the chart says

Kamala, according to the stars

Core essence

Kamala makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Kamala is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Kamala runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Kamala needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Kamala wants to be loved

Kamala wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Kamala and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Kamala creates

How Kamala makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Kamala creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Kamala 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Kamala is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Kamala fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Kamala's birth date. Working below.

Where Kamala sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kamala

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kamala

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

PrivateExpressive
Kamala

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kamala

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Kamala

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kamala

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kamala Harris

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

Kamala’s birth-night reference starAljanahwarm orange · CygnusAljanah, in Cygnus. A warm orange star, 76.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Aljanah →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 14.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Oakland Medical Center that night

Computed for 37.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Oakland Medical Center was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 76.3° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.

Oakland Medical Center sits at 37.8°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 Oakland Medical Center at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Oakland Medical Center, United States
Lives in
Oakland · Los Angeles

Wikidata records Oakland and Los Angeles as Kamala Harris's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

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

How unusual Kamala's chart is

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · 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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Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Kamala Harris's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Kamala Harris's birth date, October 20, 1964, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Kamala’s chart

Kamala’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 29° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.3° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3° orbSun in Libra · 27°25′☉27°Moon in Aries · 22°02′☽22°Mercury in Scorpio · 0°49′☿0°Venus in Virgo · 17°26′♀17°Mars in Leo · 21°04′♂21°Jupiter in Taurus · 24°03′ · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Aquarius · 28°28′ · retrograde♄℞28°Uranus in Virgo · 13°14′♅13°Neptune in Scorpio · 16°49′♆16°Pluto in Virgo · 15°26′♇15°

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

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Kamala’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb

    Kamala’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.4° to 2.6° orb

    Kamala’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn1.5° to 3.2° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.2° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.6° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.1° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune4.0° to 4.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn4.4° to 4.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°43′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°00′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 28°32′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 17°23′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Saturn 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 0.7°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 1.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.9°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.1°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 2.3°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.7°

Kamala’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Kamala’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°

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Kamala’s cards

Computed from October 20, 1964. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kamala’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q10853588 (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 Lawrence Jackson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kamala Harris at Wikipedia, kamalaharris.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 Kamala Harris.

Quick answers about Kamala Harris’s chart

How old is Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris is 62 years old, born October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris is a Libra: born October 20, 1964, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Kamala Harris's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1964 birth.
How tall is Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris is 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Kamala Harris's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Kamala Harris's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kamala Harris's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kamala Harris's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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