Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers (born Kenneth Donald Rogers; August 21, 1938, Houston, United States; died 2020), was an American country singer. Best-known releases include Once Upon a Christmas. Rogers's honours include Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals and Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
Kenny Rogers’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Kenny
Kenny Rogers’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Kenny in the U.S.?
#1271
US rank in 2025
~52,479
Americans share it since 1908
1960
its peak year
Kenny ranked 378th in 1938, the year of this birth, with 223 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kenny’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Kenneth Donald Rogers, not the name they published under.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on K (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kenny’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The record
What sets Kenny apart
Kenny Rogers took the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1979, at 41.
Northside High School and Wharton Dual Language Academy shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1958, at 20.
The grave is at Oaklands Cemetery.
On the family side, Kenny Rogers was married Marianne Gordon.
Usain Bolt (1986) and Robert Lewandowski (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Northside High School, Wharton Dual Language Academy and University of Houston
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- American Music Award for Favorite Country Album (1982), Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist (1982) and Favorite Country Male Artist (1983)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
- Working from
- 1958
- Buried at
- Oaklands Cemetery
- Wikipedia editions
- 75
What the chart says
Kenny, according to the stars
Core essence
Kenny is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Kenny is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Kenny wants to be loved
Kenny wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Kenny gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Kenny creates
How Kenny makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Kenny creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Kenny 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Kenny is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Kenny 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 Kenny's birth date. Working below.
Where Kenny sits
Six lines
Kenny’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Kenny Rogers
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Houston 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 Houston that night
Computed for 29.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Houston at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.1° above the horizon in Lyra.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 29.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman cannot be seen from Houston at all: they sit past the −60.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon down and 16% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Kenneth Donald Rogers
- Known as
- Kenny Rogers
- Born in
- Houston, United States
The death is recorded at Sandy Springs, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan area in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kenny Rogers: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Kenny's chart is
Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · No Water 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 →Kenny Rogers at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Kenny Rogers's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Kenny Rogers was born on August 21, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Kenny Rogers's birth date, August 21, 1938, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Kenny’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kenny Rogers' date-only chart is Sun opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kenny Rogers combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Kenny’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.2° to 1.3° orb
Kenny’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareUranus1.0° to 1.6° orb
Kenny’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.1° to 1.8° orb
Kenny’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.0° to 5.1° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.6° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.9° to 14.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.1° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 4.6° to 19.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 4.8° to 19.4° depending on birth time
possibleMarsoppositionJupiterorb from 7.7° to 8.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Kenny’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 7°42′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°46′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 9°47′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 14°20′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.4°
Kenny’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune
Configurations in Kenny’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, 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 semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.4°
More people like Kenny
Other actors
- F. Murray Abraham1939
- Linda Lavin1937
- Amanda Lear1939
- Claudia Cardinale1938
- Enzo Staiola1939
- Dustin Hoffman1937
Born in United States
- Michael CiminoAmerican film director
- Charles WuorinenAmerican composer
- John HarbisonAmerican composer
- Natalie WoodAmerican actress
- Edna BuchananAmerican writer
- Larry NivenAmerican writer (born 1938)
More charts like Kenny’s
Fellow Leo suns
- George de HevesyHungarian chemist
- Pavel CherenkovSoviet physicist
- Frederick SangerBritish biochemist
Born in Tiger years
- Miles DavisAmerican jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
- Hedy Lamarr
- Christian BaleAmerican-English actor
Also born on August 21
- Usain Bolt1986
- Robert Lewandowski1988
- Sergey Brin1973
- Hayden Panettiere1989
- Kim Cattrall1956
- Kacey Musgraves1988
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Woodrow Wilsonpresident of the United States from 1913 to 1921
- Rahm EmanuelAmerican politician (born 1959)
- Tom EmmerU.S. Representative from Minnesota
Other Leo Tiger charts
- Michelle YeohMalaysian actress
- Shawn MendesCanadian singer
- Steve CarellAmerican actor and comedian
- HulkBrazilian association football player
Other Evergreen Architects
- Simón BolívarVenezuelan statesman and military officer
- BeyoncéAmerican singer-songwriter
- Narendra ModiPrime Minister of India since 2014
- James Clerk MaxwellScottish physicist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- David HasselhoffAmerican actor, singer, producer, and businessman (born 1952)
- Tony GoldwynAmerican actor and director (born 1960)
- Yolanda HadidAmerican television personality and former model
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Kenny’s cards
Computed from August 21, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kenny’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217160 (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 John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kenny Rogers at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kenny Rogers.
Quick answers about Kenny Rogers’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kenny Rogers?
- Kenny Rogers was a Leo: born August 21, 1938, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Kenny Rogers's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1938 birth.
- What was Kenny Rogers's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Kenny Rogers's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Kenny Rogers's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kenny Rogers's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
