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Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson (born April 24, 1982, Burleson, United States), aged 44, is an American singer-songwriter. Best-known releases include Breakaway, My December and All I Ever Wanted. Clarkson's honours include Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album and Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment.

Kelly Clarkson’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Kelly Clarkson’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

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

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

#852

US rank in 2025

~556,365

Americans share it since 1880

1977

its peak year

The SSA recorded 12,170 American girls and 1,270 boys named Kelly in 1982: 25th among girls and 197th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kelly’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on K (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Kelly’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

White · Blush · Moonlight white

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 1982, 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 Kelly apart

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video came in 2005, when Kelly Clarkson was 23.

Study took Kelly Clarkson to Burleson High School.

Kelly Clarkson was 20 when the work began in 2002.

The family line: married Brandon Blackstock.

Wikipedia files Kelly Clarkson under Actresses from Fort Worth, Texas, American women philanthropists and 19 Recordings artists.

Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Burleson High School
Instruments
voice
Awards
MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video (2005), Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album (2006) and Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (2006)
Working from
2002
Citizenship
United States
Languages
American English
Wikipedia editions
86

What the chart says

Kelly, according to the stars

Core essence

Kelly is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Kelly is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Kelly is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Kelly needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Kelly wants to be loved

Kelly wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Kelly, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Kelly creates

How Kelly makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Kelly creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Kelly is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Kelly 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Kelly fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Kelly's birth date. Working below.

Where Kelly sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kelly

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kelly

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

PrivateExpressive
Kelly

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kelly

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

PracticalVisionary
Kelly

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kelly

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kelly Clarkson

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

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

The sky over Burleson that night

Computed for 32.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Burleson at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 9.9° of the exact zenith.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Burleson sits at 32.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −57.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Burleson on any night.

Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Burleson, United States
Lives in
Hendersonville · Encino

Wikidata records Hendersonville and Encino as Kelly Clarkson'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 Kelly Clarkson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Kelly's chart is

Chart pattern score

75 / 100 · Rare

Yod onto Saturn · Yod onto Sun · 6 planets retrograde

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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Kelly Clarkson in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Kelly Clarkson's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Kelly Clarkson was born on April 24, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Kelly Clarkson's birth date, April 24, 1982, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Kelly’s chart

Kelly’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.4° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.7° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.4° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 7.6° orbSun in Taurus · 4°13′☉4°Moon in Taurus · 16°33′☽16°Mercury in Taurus · 18°18′☿18°Venus in Pisces · 19°14′♀19°Mars in Libra · 2°16′ · retrograde♂℞2°Jupiter in Scorpio · 5°37′ · retrograde♃℞5°Saturn in Libra · 17°44′ · retrograde♄℞17°Uranus in Sagittarius · 3°46′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Sagittarius · 26°52′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Libra · 25°18′ · retrograde♇℞25°

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.
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

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.5° to 1.3° orb

    Kelly’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter0.8° to 1.9° orb

    Kelly’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarssextileUranus1.4° to 1.6° orb

    Kelly’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune5.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 3.5° to 18.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 5.4° to 19.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineNeptuneorb from 6.9° to 7.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

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

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 21°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 22°55′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 11°30′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 28°40′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.7°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 2.2°

Kelly’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    disposes Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune3 pts

    disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Kelly’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Mercury, Venus, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Sun · Mars, Uranus, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
  • Venus biquintile Pluto 0.1°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.6°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.0°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.0°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 1.5°
  • Sun quincunx Mars 1.9°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°

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Kelly’s cards

Computed from April 24, 1982. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kelly’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q483507 (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 Stephen Schester/Carlin Leslie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kelly Clarkson.

Quick answers about Kelly Clarkson’s chart

How old is Kelly Clarkson?
Kelly Clarkson is 44 years old, born April 24, 1982 in Burleson, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kelly Clarkson?
Kelly Clarkson is a Taurus: born April 24, 1982, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Kelly Clarkson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1982 birth.
How tall is Kelly Clarkson?
Kelly Clarkson is 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Kelly Clarkson's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Kelly Clarkson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kelly Clarkson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kelly Clarkson's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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