Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar (born January 1, 1987, Compton, United States), aged 39, is an American rapper. Best-known releases include To Pimp a Butterfly, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City and DAMN.. Lamar's honours include Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance and Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Kendrick Lamar’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Kendrick
Kendrick Lamar’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Kendrick in the U.S.?
#535
US rank in 2025
~33,942
Americans share it since 1912
2013
its peak year
The SSA recorded 640 American boys and 16 girls named Kendrick in 1987: 323rd among boys and 4,955th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kendrick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on K (2) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kendrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1986, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Kendrick apart
The BET Award for Best New Artist came in 2013, when Kendrick Lamar was 26.
The schooling ran through Centennial High School.
Kendrick Lamar was 16 when the work began in 2003.
Wikipedia files Kendrick Lamar under Black Hippy members, American battle rappers and African-American film directors.
Meryl Davis shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Centennial High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Record of the Year (2025), Grammy Award for Best Rap Song (2015) and Grammy Award for Song of the Year (2025)
- Nominated for
- American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album and Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist
- Working from
- 2003
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and African American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 75
What the chart says
Kendrick, according to the stars
Core essence
Kendrick is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Kendrick is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Kendrick wants to be loved
Kendrick wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Kendrick even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Kendrick creates
How Kendrick makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Kendrick creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Kendrick is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Kendrick is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Kendrick slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Kendrick's birth date. Working below.
Where Kendrick sits
Six lines
Kendrick’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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Kendrick Lamar
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Compton 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 Compton that night
Computed for 33.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Compton was Menkib, in Perseus, 87.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
Compton sits at 33.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Compton at all: they sit past the −56.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 7% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
How unusual Kendrick's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · A bowl 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Kendrick Lamar's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1987, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Kendrick Lamar was born on January 1, 1987, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Kendrick Lamar's birth date, January 1, 1987, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Kendrick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kendrick Lamar's date-only chart is Venus trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Kendrick Lamar combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Kendrick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineMars0.4° to 0.6° orb
Kendrick’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 2.0° orb
Kendrick’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunsextilePluto0.9° to 1.9° orb
Kendrick’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareUranus1.4° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 5.6° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.1° to 6.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter7.4° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.6° to 16.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Kendrick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 17°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 5°27′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 11°19′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 22°41′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°27′ (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 opposition Mercury 0.0°
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.5°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.3°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 1.9°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.6°
Kendrick’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Kendrick’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
Born the same day as Kendrick
Meryl Davis was born on January 1, 1987 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Compton, at 33.9°N, nothing below −56.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Tiger years
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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- Carmen De LavalladeAmerican dancer
- Linda RonstadtAmerican singer (born 1946)
Other Capricorn Tiger charts
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- Alexis Mac AllisterArgentine association football player (born 1998)
- Oleksandr UsykUkrainian boxer
- Esther HenseleitFemale German golf player
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Robert K. MassieAmerican historian
- Constance McLaughlin GreenAmerican historian
- Blair KaminAmerican architecture critic
- Stanley FormanAmerican photographer (born 1945)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Evan VucciAmerican photographer, chief Washington photographer at Associated Press
- Carolyn ColeAmerican photojournalist (born 1961)
- Shirley Ann GrauAmerican writer
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Kendrick’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1987. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kendrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q130798 (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 Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kendrick Lamar at Wikipedia, oklama.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 Kendrick Lamar.
Quick answers about Kendrick Lamar’s chart
- How old is Kendrick Lamar?
- Kendrick Lamar is 39 years old, born January 1, 1987 in Compton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Kendrick Lamar?
- Kendrick Lamar is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1987, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Kendrick Lamar's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1987 birth.
- What is Kendrick Lamar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kendrick Lamar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Kendrick Lamar's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kendrick Lamar's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
