Katy Perry
Katy Perry (born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson; October 25, 1984, Santa Barbara, United States, 07:58), aged 42, 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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Katy
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
Katy ranked 388th in 1984, the year of this birth, with 566 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Katy’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, not the name they published under.
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Expression · starting things
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Soul Urge · achievement
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Personality · perceptive
The name opens on K (2) and closes on N (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
Katy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1984, 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 Katy apart
Pablo Picasso (1881) and Mia Wasikowska (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
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. Working below.
Where Katy sits
Six lines
Katy’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Katy Perry
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Santa Barbara on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Santa Barbara at 07:58, Katy Perry’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Santa Barbara that night
Computed for 34.43°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Santa Barbara at the birth hour: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 13.0° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Santa Barbara on any night.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat -8° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson
- Known as
- Katy Perry
- Born in
- Santa Barbara, United States
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Katy's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Warrior 武曲, The Charmer 貪狼 in 未
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 1/3
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
79 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bundled chart · No Air planets
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.
Score your own chart →Katy Perry at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Katy Perry's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Katy Perry was born on October 25, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Katy Perry's birth date, October 25, 1984, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Katy’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Katy Perry's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Moon in the 1st house, Mercury in the 1st house, Saturn in the 1st house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Katy Perry's timed chart is Sun conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Katy Perry combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.9° orb
SunsextileNeptuneseparating · 3.2° orb
MoonsextileMarsseparating · 3.5° orb
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 4.2° orb
VenusconjunctionUranusapplying · 4.9° orb
MercuryconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb
MoonconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.0° orb
MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 7°37′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 21°47′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°26′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°29′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°31′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Katy’s dominant planets
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. ♂ Mars8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Katy’s chart
Stellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 1 | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 3 | Venus, Uranus, Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 1 | Mars, Jupiter | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 3 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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One relative of Katy Perry also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on October 25
- Pablo Picasso1881
- Mia Wasikowska1989
- Dominik Szoboszlai2000
- Ciara1985
- Mia Goth1993
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Zach RoerigAmerican actor
- Robert RedfordAmerican actor and director
- Scott PorterAmerican actor
Other Scorpio Rat charts
- Christian KirkAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Ben PowersAmerican football player (born 1996)
- MomoJapanese singer
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Other Tidal Guardians
- Ozan KabakTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Ivor PandurCroatian association football player
- Igor MatanovićCroatian association football player
- Chemsdine TalbiMoroccan footballer
Other Scorpio risings with documented times
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Pierfrancesco FavinoItalian actor
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Katy’s cards
Computed from October 25, 1984. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Katy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42493 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Katy Perry.
Quick answers about Katy Perry’s chart
- How old is Katy Perry?
- Katy Perry is 42 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.
- 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.
- What is Katy Perry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 7°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
