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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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 1880

2004

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Kanye’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Kanye sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.

What stands out in Kanye’s chart

Kanye’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Kanye West, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Kanye’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Kanye’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Kanye’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune2.6° to 3.5° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.7° to 3.5° orb

    Kanye’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.1° to 3.3° orb

    Kanye’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb

    Kanye’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb

    Kanye’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus5.6° to 6.6° orb

    Kanye’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Kanye building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

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

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Kanye is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 7°42′ (moves 0.39° 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. Kanye is read as drawn to people who have built something.

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

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Kanye is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Kanye that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Kanye’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. 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

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Kanye is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kanye West, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Kanye’s cards

Every card is computed from June 8, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

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Judgement

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The Radiant Healer

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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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

No birth time is on public record for Kanye West, 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

Kanye’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15935, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
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 time was Kanye West 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 Kanye West's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1977 birth date.
What is Kanye West's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1977 birth date.
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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