Kiri Te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa (born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron; March 6, 1944, Gisborne, New Zealand), aged 82, is a New Zealand opera singer. Kanawa's honours include Classic Brit Awards, Order of New Zealand and Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia.
Kiri Te Kanawa’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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Kiri Te Kanawa’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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Kiri’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Kiri, according to the stars
Core essence
Kiri feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Kiri is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Kiri wants to be loved
Kiri 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 Kiri be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Kiri creates
How Kiri makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Kiri creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Kiri is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Kiri 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Kiri scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Kiri's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Kiri sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
Kiri Te Kanawa's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 6, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Kiri Te Kanawa was born on March 6, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Kiri Te Kanawa's birth date, March 6, 1944, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Kiri’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kiri Te Kanawa's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kiri Te Kanawa combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Kiri’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kiri Te Kanawa, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Kiri’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb
Kiri’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.2° to 0.6° orb
Kiri’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.6° to 0.7° orb
Kiri’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° orb
Kiri’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Kiri’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.2° to 3.5° orb
Kiri’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineMars2.7° to 3.5° orb
Kiri’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.9° to 4.1° orb
Kiri’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
Kiri’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars3.9° to 4.4° orb
Kiri’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSunsquareSaturn4.1° to 5.1° orb
Kiri’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Kiri’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 12°26′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Kiri turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresGemini 26°32′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Kiri feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 11°02′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Kiri is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 11°25′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Kiri carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 1°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Kiri exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Sun 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°).
Kiri’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Kiri is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Kiri’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Yod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo 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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.8°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kiri Te Kanawa, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Kiri
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- Grace Bumbry1937
- Leontyne Price1927
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Also born on March 6
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Kiri’s cards
Every card is computed from March 6, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kiri Te Kanawa, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Kiri’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q380133, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kiri Te Kanawa at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube 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 Kiri Te Kanawa.
Quick answers about Kiri Te Kanawa’s chart
- How old is Kiri Te Kanawa?
- Kiri Te Kanawa is 82 years old, born March 6, 1944 in Gisborne, New Zealand.
- What zodiac sign is Kiri Te Kanawa?
- Kiri Te Kanawa is a Pisces: born March 6, 1944, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
- What is Kiri Te Kanawa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 6, 1944 birth.
- What time was Kiri Te Kanawa born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Kiri Te Kanawa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 6, 1944 birth date.
- What is Kiri Te Kanawa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 6, 1944 birth date.
- Where is Kiri Te Kanawa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kiri Te Kanawa's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
