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Katy Perry

Katy Perry (born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson; October 25, 1984, Santa Barbara, United States, 07:58), aged 41, is an American singer. Best-known releases include Teenage Dream, One of the Boys and Prism. Perry's honours include BRIT Award for International Female Solo Artist, Juno Award for International Album of the Year and MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year.

Katy Perry’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Katy Perry’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

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

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

#2709

US rank in 2025

~20,957

Americans share it since 1880

1987

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Katy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

3 · 2

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Crimson · Forest

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What the chart says

Katy, according to the stars

Core essence

Katy does not do surface. The core of Katy is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Katy is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Katy feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Katy needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Katy wants to be loved

Katy wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Katy and watch them fall for you again.

How Katy creates

How Katy makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Katy 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: Katy is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Katy 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Katy does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Katy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Katy sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Katy

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Katy

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Katy

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Katy

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

PracticalVisionary
Katy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Katy

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

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Katy Perry at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

Katy Perry's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Wood Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Katy Perry was born on October 25, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Katy Perry's birth date, October 25, 1984, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Katy’s chart

Katy’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.3° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.9° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.4° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.5° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.2° orbSun in Scorpio · 2°23′ · house 1☉2°Moon in Scorpio · 17°57′ · house 1☽17°Mercury in Scorpio · 11°59′ · house 1☿11°Venus in Sagittarius · 6°33′ · house 2♀6°Mars in Capricorn · 14°25′ · house 3♂14°Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°49′ · house 3♃7°Saturn in Scorpio · 17°05′ · house 1♄17°Uranus in Sagittarius · 11°25′ · house 2♅11°Neptune in Sagittarius · 29°13′ · house 2♆29°Pluto in Scorpio · 2°05′ · house 1♇2°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 10°46′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 10°46′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 16°30′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 16°30′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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AscendantScorpio
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunconjunctionPlutoseparating · 0.3° orb

    Katy’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MoonconjunctionSaturnseparating · 0.9° orb

    Katy’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MercurysextileMarsapplying · 2.4° orb

    Katy’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MarssextileSaturnapplying · 2.7° orb

    Katy’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.9° orb

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

  • SunsextileNeptuneseparating · 3.2° orb

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

  • MoonsextileMarsseparating · 3.5° orb

    Katy’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 4.2° orb

    Katy’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • VenusconjunctionUranusapplying · 4.9° orb

    Katy’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • MercuryconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb

    Katy’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • MoonconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.0° orb

    Katy’s feelings and mind act as one.

  • MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 6.6° orb

    Katy’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Katy’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 7°37′ · House 8

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

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Katy turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 21°47′ · House 7

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Katy is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 10°26′ · House 3

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Katy is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°29′ · House 4

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Katy is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°31′ · House 6

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Katy carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Eros sextile Ascendant 0.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.0°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.3°
  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.6°

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°).

Katy’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto19 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars8.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Katy is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Katy’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

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.

  • Sun quintile Mars 0.0°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°

Katy’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 1Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn, Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Capricorn, house 3Venus, Uranus, Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 1Mars, Jupitermind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 2emptyhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 2emptycreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Capricorn, house 3emptywork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Sagittarius, house 2emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 1emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 1emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Scorpio, house 1emptycareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 1emptyfriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Sagittarius, house 2emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Katy’s cards

Every card is computed from October 25, 1984, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Katy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42493, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Katy Perry at Wikipedia, katyperry.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.

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Quick answers about Katy Perry’s chart

How old is Katy Perry?
Katy Perry is 41 years old, born October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, United States.
What zodiac sign is Katy Perry?
Katy Perry is a Scorpio: born October 25, 1984, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat.
What is Katy Perry's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 25, 1984 birth.
What time was Katy Perry born?
07:58 local time in Santa Barbara, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Katy Perry's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 07:58 birth time in Santa Barbara, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Katy Perry?
Katy Perry is 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Katy Perry's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 25, 1984 birth date.
What is Katy Perry's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 7°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 25, 1984 birth time.
Where is Katy Perry's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Katy Perry's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (19 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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