Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant (born August 23, 1978, Philadelphia, United States; died 2020), was an American basketball player. Bryant played for Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant's honours include Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, NBA Most Valuable Player Award and NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award.
Kobe Bryant’s zodiac sign was Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Kobe
How common is the name Kobe in the U.S.?
#519
US rank in 2025
~23,126
Americans share it since 1989
2001
its peak year
Kobe is in US records from 1989, but 1978 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2001.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kobe’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on K (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kobe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, 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 Kobe apart
Kobe Bryant took the NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award in 2002, at 24.
School of the Woods, Montessori and Lower Merion High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1996, at 18.
Cause of death is recorded as helicopter crash; the grave is at Pacific View Memorial Park.
Kobe Bryant was born to Pam Bryant and Joe Bryant, married Vanessa Bryant and raised 4 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Kobe Bryant under Deaths from fire in the United States, Lower Merion High School alumni and Basketball players from Orange County, California.
The same date carries Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- School of the Woods, Montessori and Lower Merion High School
- Awards
- NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award (2002), All-NBA Team (2008) and Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award (2009)
- Nominated for
- Best Male Athlete ESPY Award and BET Award for Athlete of the Century
- Working from
- 1996
- Cause of death
- helicopter crash
- Buried at
- Pacific View Memorial Park
- Sport
- basketball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Italian, English and Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 114
What the chart says
Kobe, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Kobe is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Kobe needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Kobe wants to be loved
Kobe 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. Kobe gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Kobe creates
How Kobe makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Kobe creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Kobe 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 2 is the peacemaker. Kobe is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Kobe fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Kobe's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
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A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.3° above the horizon in Lyra.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.0°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 −50.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 65% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Philadelphia, United States
- Lived in
- Newport Beach · Reggio Calabria
Wikidata records Newport Beach and Reggio Calabria as Kobe Bryant's home, against Philadelphia as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Calabasas, Los Angeles County in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kobe Bryant: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Kobe's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Kobe Bryant at a glance
Leo or Virgo Sun
Kobe Bryant was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Kobe Bryant was born on August 23, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Kobe Bryant's birth date, August 23, 1978, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Kobe’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kobe Bryant's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
Kobe’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Taurus 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
stableVenussextileNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Kobe’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
Kobe’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.8° to 1.7° orb
Kobe’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.1° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 2.5° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 4.8° to 17.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Kobe’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°44′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 10°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 25°21′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 21°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 24°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres square Mars 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.7°
Kobe’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Kobe’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
Kobe’s family here
2 relatives of Kobe Bryant also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Kobe
Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen was born on August 23, 1978 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Also born on August 23
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 2
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- Eyioma UwazurikeAmerican football player (born 1998)
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From the journal: Do twins have the same birth chart? · Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why
Kobe’s cards
Computed from August 23, 1978. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kobe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q25369 (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.
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The same Kobe Bryant at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Kobe Bryant.
Quick answers about Kobe Bryant’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kobe Bryant?
- Kobe Bryant was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Kobe Bryant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1978 birth.
- How tall was Kobe Bryant?
- Kobe Bryant was 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Kobe Bryant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Kobe Bryant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Kobe Bryant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kobe Bryant's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
