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Kevin Gates

Kevin Gates (born Kevin Jerome Gilyard; February 5, 1986, New Orleans, United States), aged 40, is an American rapper. Best-known releases include Islah.

Kevin Gates’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Kevin Gates’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

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

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

#221

US rank in 2025

~1,189,844

Americans share it since 1912

1963

its peak year

Kevin ranked 21st among boys and 1,038th among girls in 1986, the year of this birth, with 19,935 American boys and 146 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kevin’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Kevin Jerome Gilyard, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on K (2) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Kevin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Violet · Ivory · Flame orange

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 Kevin apart

McKinley Senior High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2007, at 21.

Wikipedia's editors put Kevin Gates under Rappers from New Orleans, McKinley Senior High School alumni and Muslims from Louisiana.

Cristiano Ronaldo (1985) and Neymar (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
McKinley Senior High School
Instruments
voice
Working from
2007
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Kevin, according to the stars

Core essence

Kevin is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Kevin is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Kevin wants to be loved

Kevin wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Kevin be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Kevin creates

How Kevin makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Kevin 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: Kevin is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Kevin 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Kevin has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Kevin's birth date. Working below.

Where Kevin sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kevin

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kevin

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

PrivateExpressive
Kevin

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kevin

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

PracticalVisionary
Kevin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kevin

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kevin Gates

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

Kevin’s birth-night reference starPropusdeep red · GeminiPropus, in Gemini. A deep red star, 82.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Propus →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 71.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over New Orleans that night

Computed for 29.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Propus stood nearest the zenith over New Orleans at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.2° above the horizon in Gemini.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 30.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −60.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 11% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.

The name and the places

Born as
Kevin Jerome Gilyard
Known as
Kevin Gates
Born in
New Orleans, United States

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kevin Gates: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Kevin's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bundled chart · No retrogrades at all

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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Kevin Gates in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Kevin Gates's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 5, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Fire Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Kevin Gates was born on February 5, 1986, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Kevin Gates's birth date, February 5, 1986, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Kevin’s chart

Kevin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.6° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.5° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 4.1° orbSun in Aquarius · 16°39′☉16°Moon in Capricorn · 3°34′☽3°Mercury in Aquarius · 20°08′☿20°Venus in Aquarius · 20°45′♀20°Mars in Sagittarius · 2°03′♂2°Jupiter in Aquarius · 26°25′♃26°Saturn in Sagittarius · 8°17′♄8°Uranus in Sagittarius · 21°19′♅21°Neptune in Capricorn · 4°50′♆4°Pluto in Scorpio · 7°22′♇7°

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.
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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

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Kevin’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus0.3° to 2.1° orb

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.9° orb

    Kevin’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.1° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus4.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.2° to 6.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.5° to 7.1° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter5.5° to 5.8° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.0° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 9°18′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 13°25′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 0°36′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 25°40′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 27°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.3°

Kevin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Kevin’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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.

  • Mercury quintile Saturn 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.3°
  • Venus quintile Saturn 0.5°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 0.9°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.1°

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Kevin’s cards

Computed from February 5, 1986. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ 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

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kevin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6396353 (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 Atlantic Records, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 Kevin Gates.

Quick answers about Kevin Gates’s chart

How old is Kevin Gates?
Kevin Gates is 40 years old, born February 5, 1986 in New Orleans, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kevin Gates?
Kevin Gates is an Aquarius: born February 5, 1986, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Kevin Gates's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1986 birth.
What is Kevin Gates's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Kevin Gates's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kevin Gates's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kevin Gates's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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