How old is Kenan Thompson?

Kenan Thompson is 48 years old, born May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, United States.

What zodiac sign is Kenan Thompson?

Kenan Thompson is a Taurus: born May 10, 1978, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.

What is Kenan Thompson's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 10, 1978 birth.

What time was Kenan Thompson born?

07:09 local time in Atlanta, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What is Kenan Thompson's rising sign?

Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 07:09 birth time in Atlanta, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

What is Kenan Thompson's Life Path number?

Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 10, 1978 birth date.

What is Kenan Thompson's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Taurus at 6°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 10, 1978 birth time.

Where is Kenan Thompson's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 12°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Kenan Thompson's dominant planet?

Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Kenan Thompson

Kenan Thompson (born May 10, 1978, Atlanta, United States, 07:09), aged 48, is an American comedian and actor (born 1978).

Kenan Thompson’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

How compatible are you with Kenan Thompson?

Your birthday, just below, gives your match percentage with Kenan. Under a minute.

Your AsterNym Match

?%Your score is waiting.

Two details and you have your number with Kenan. Under a minute, and it is real astrology, not a quiz.

Your result includes:

· Your compatibility percentage
· What attracts you to each other
· What you would bring to the match
· Where you might clash
· Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons

Kenan Thompson’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#1148

US rank in 2025

~4,675

Americans share it since 1880

2024

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Kenan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

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

The record

What sets Kenan apart

Linda Evangelista (1965) and Miuccia Prada (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Kenan, according to the stars

Core essence

Kenan 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 Kenan 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, Kenan processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Kenan needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Kenan wants to be loved

Kenan wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Kenan like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Kenan creates

How Kenan makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Kenan 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: Kenan is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Kenan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Kenan fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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

Where Kenan sits

Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.

Kenan’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network

Kenan

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

DeliberateSpontaneous

Kenan

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

PrivateExpressive

Kenan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Kenan

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

PracticalVisionary

Kenan

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Kenan

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 Kenan Thompson

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

Kenan’s birth-sky starAljanahwarm orange · CygnusAljanah, in Cygnus. A warm orange star, 89.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Aljanah →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 19.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

Read from the sky above Atlanta at 07:09, the birth time on Kenan Thompson’s AA-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Kenan Thompson's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Earth Horse

Can't stand still. Won't.

Kenan Thompson was born on May 10, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Kenan Thompson's birth date, May 10, 1978, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Kenan’s chart

Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Kenan Thompson's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Mars in the 4th house, Saturn in the 4th house and Uranus in the 7th house.
The tightest major aspect in Kenan Thompson's timed chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
Kenan Thompson combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.

Kenan’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.

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

Tap one to light it on the wheel.

AscendantTaurus

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

Aspects, tightest first

MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 0.6° orb
Kenan’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 1.6° orb
Kenan’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenusoppositionNeptuneapplying · 1.7° orb
Kenan’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MarssquareUranusapplying · 1.9° orb
Kenan’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarssextilePlutoapplying · 2.1° orb
Kenan’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 2.4° orb
Kenan’s feelings open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsextileMercuryseparating · 3.0° orb
Kenan’s feelings open doors for their mind.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.3° orb
Kenan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenussextileMarsseparating · 3.7° orb
Kenan’s affections open doors for their drive.
SunsquareSaturnapplying · 4.4° orb
Kenan’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunoppositionUranusseparating · 5.3° orb
Kenan’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
MarstrineNeptuneapplying · 5.4° orb
Kenan’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 5.6° orb
Kenan’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 6.2° orb
Kenan’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire4 of 10
Earth1 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: Fire leads this chart.

Kenan’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.

⚷ ChironTaurus 6°15′ · House 1
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 Kenan building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 23°48′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Kenan caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosTaurus 21°35′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Kenan wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 1°55′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Kenan is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 12°36′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Kenan guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Ceres square Mercury 0.6°
Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.5°
Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.6°
Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.8°
Eros conjunction Sun 2.1°
Eros square Saturn 2.3°
Ceres trine Ascendant 2.9°
Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.9°

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°).

Kenan’s dominant planets

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

1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Kenan 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 Kenan’s chart

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

Grand trine · Mercury, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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 semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.5°
Sun biquintile Pluto 1.0°
Moon semi-square Mars 1.0°
Sun quincunx Neptune 1.8°
Venus quincunx Uranus 1.8°

Kenan’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.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Taurus	Venus in Gemini, house 2	Sun	self, body, how you arrive
2	Gemini	Mercury in Aries, house 12	Moon, Venus	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Cancer	Moon in Gemini, house 2	Jupiter	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Leo	Sun in Taurus, house 1	Mars, Saturn	home, family, roots
5	Virgo	Mercury in Aries, house 12	empty	creativity, romance, play
6	Libra	Venus in Gemini, house 2	Pluto	work, habits, health
7	Scorpio	Pluto in Libra, house 6	Uranus	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Cancer, house 3	Neptune	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Capricorn	Saturn in Leo, house 4	empty	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Aquarius	Uranus in Scorpio, house 7	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Pisces	Neptune in Sagittarius, house 8	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Aries	Mars in Leo, house 4	Mercury	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

More people like Kenan

Other actors

Born in United States

Zoe SaldañaAmerican actress, dancer, and model
Sheinelle JonesAmerican journalist, news anchor and correspondent
Nicole ScherzingerAmerican singer and actress
James FrancoAmerican actor
Rhea DurhamAmerican model
Chris StapletonAmerican country musician

More charts like Kenan’s

Fellow Taurus suns

Harper LeeAmerican novelist
George OppenAmerican poet
F. Lauriston BullardAmerican journalist

All about Taurus →

Born in Horse years

J. Michael StraczynskiAmerican writer and filmmaker (born 1954)
Michael CrichtonAmerican author, screenwriter, film director
Richard DonnerAmerican film director

Year of the Horse →

Also born on May 10

Fellow Yang Water day masters

Cole SprouseAmerican actor
Hunter SchaferAmerican actress, model, and LGBTQ activist
Marina DiamandisBritish singer

What a Day Master is →

Other Taurus Horse charts

Malin AkermanSwedish actress (born 1978)
Erin AndrewsAmerican sportscaster and television personality
Stephen BaldwinAmerican actor and political activist
Jake BongioviAmerican actor

Other Tidal Architects

Mikaela ShiffrinAmerican alpine skier (born 1995)
Gabrielle UnionAmerican actress, singer and model
David SpadeAmerican stand-up comedian and actor (born 1964)
SealBritish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer

The Tidal Architect explained →

Famous people with Life Path 4

Nic ClaxtonAmerican basketball player
LJ CryerAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Tyus JonesAmerican basketball player (born 1996)

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle

Kenan’s cards

Every card is computed from May 10, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

Tap to flip

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Tap to flip

Western zodiac

Taurus

Tap to flip

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Tap to flip

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

Tap to flip

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Kenan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q552900, 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 Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kenan Thompson at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Kenan Thompson.

Quick answers about Kenan Thompson’s chart

How old is Kenan Thompson?: Kenan Thompson is 48 years old, born May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kenan Thompson?: Kenan Thompson is a Taurus: born May 10, 1978, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
What is Kenan Thompson's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 10, 1978 birth.
What time was Kenan Thompson born?: 07:09 local time in Atlanta, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Kenan Thompson's rising sign?: Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 07:09 birth time in Atlanta, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Kenan Thompson's Life Path number?: Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 10, 1978 birth date.
What is Kenan Thompson's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Taurus at 6°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 10, 1978 birth time.
Where is Kenan Thompson's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 12°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kenan Thompson's dominant planet?: Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

How compatible are you with Kenan Thompson?

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

Kenan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

What sets Kenan apart

Kenan, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Kenan wants to be loved

How Kenan creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.

Dedicate a star to Kenan Thompson

The quick version

Taurus Sun

Earth Horse

Life Path 4

What stands out in Kenan’s chart

Kenan’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Kenan’s dominant planets

Configurations in Kenan’s chart

Minor aspects

Kenan’s houses

More people like Kenan

Other actors

Born in United States

More charts like Kenan’s

Fellow Taurus suns

Born in Horse years

Also born on May 10

Fellow Yang Water day masters

Other Taurus Horse charts

Other Tidal Architects

Other Taurus risings with documented times

Famous people with Life Path 4

Kenan’s cards

BaZi pillars

Quick answers about Kenan Thompson’s chart

More charts to explore