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Kanye West

Kanye West (born June 8, 1977, Atlanta, United States), aged 49, is an American rapper and record producer. Best-known releases include 808s & Heartbreak, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and The College Dropout. West's honours include Grammy Award for Best Rap Song, Grammy Award for Best R&B Song and American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist.

Kanye West’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Kanye West’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#12964

US rank in 2025

~1,428

Americans share it since 2002

2004

its peak year

Kanye is in US records from 2002, but 1977 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2004.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kanye’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

11

Soul Urge · insight

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on K (2) 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

Kanye’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Kanye apart

Kanye West took the Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Artist in 2004, at 27.

The classrooms behind this chart: Polaris High School and American Academy of Art College.

The working life starts in 1996, at 19.

Kanye West was born to Donda West and Ray West, married Kim Kardashian and raised 4 children.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Kanye West: American business executives in the food industry, African-American male rappers and African American-Jewish relations.

Tim Berners-Lee (1955) and Francis Crick (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Polaris High School and American Academy of Art College
Awards
Grammy Award for Best R&B Song (2005), Grammy Award for Best Rap Song (2006) and Grammy Award for Best Rap Album (2005)
Nominated for
Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance and Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance
Working from
1996
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
110

What the chart says

Kanye, according to the stars

Core essence

Kanye is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Kanye needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Kanye is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Kanye needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Kanye wants to be loved

Kanye wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Kanye is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Kanye creates

How Kanye makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Kanye creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Kanye is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Kanye is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Kanye is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Kanye's birth date. Working below.

Where Kanye sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kanye

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kanye

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Kanye

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kanye

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

PracticalVisionary
Kanye

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kanye

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 Kanye West

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

Kanye’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 83.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 12.2° 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 Atlanta that night

Computed for 33.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Atlanta was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 83.4° up.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 33.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Atlanta at all: they sit past the −56.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 3° below the horizon, Moon down and 46% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Kanye's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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.

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The quick version

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Kanye West's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Fire Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Kanye West was born on June 8, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 2

Quiet power, real power.

Kanye West's birth date, June 8, 1977, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Kanye’s chart

Kanye’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.3° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.8° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.9° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSun in Gemini · 17°44′☉17°Moon in Pisces · 18°10′☽18°Mercury in Taurus · 26°30′☿26°Venus in Taurus · 2°09′♀2°Mars in Taurus · 1°53′♂1°Jupiter in Gemini · 14°38′♃14°Saturn in Leo · 12°49′♄12°Uranus in Scorpio · 8°16′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Sagittarius · 14°41′ · retrograde♆℞14°Pluto in Libra · 11°27′ · retrograde♇℞11°

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

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Kanye’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.3° orb

    Kanye’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Kanye’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn1.8° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune2.6° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.7° to 3.5° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.1° to 3.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus5.6° to 6.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 4°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 0°07′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 7°42′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 13°18′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Uranus 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 1.4°
  • Chiron conjunction Venus 2.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 2.3°

Kanye’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter

Configurations in Kanye’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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.8°

Kanye’s family here

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Kanye’s cards

Computed from June 8, 1977. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kanye’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15935 (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 David Shankbone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kanye West at Wikipedia, yeezy.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 Kanye West.

Quick answers about Kanye West’s chart

How old is Kanye West?
Kanye West is 49 years old, born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kanye West?
Kanye West is a Gemini: born June 8, 1977, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Kanye West's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1977 birth.
What is Kanye West's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Kanye West's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kanye West's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kanye West's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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