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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah (born September 21, 1909, Nkroful, Ghana; died 1972), was a Ghanaian politician. Nkrumah held office as Member of the 2nd Parliament of the Gold Coast and Member of the 1st Parliament of the 1st Republic of Ghana. Nkrumah's honours include Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo, Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Kwame Nkrumah’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Kwame Nkrumah’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

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

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

#2962

US rank in 2025

~3,993

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

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Kwame’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

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What the chart says

Kwame, according to the stars

Core essence

Kwame notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Kwame is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Kwame is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Kwame needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Kwame wants to be loved

Kwame 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 Kwame even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Kwame creates

How Kwame makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Kwame builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Kwame is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Kwame 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Kwame gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Kwame's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Kwame sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Kwame

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kwame

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

PrivateExpressive
Kwame

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kwame

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

PracticalVisionary
Kwame

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kwame

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kwame Nkrumah

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

Kwame’s birth-night reference starEnifwarm orange · PegasusEnif, in Pegasus. A warm orange star, 80.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Enif →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 14.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Kwame Nkrumah in 15 seconds

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Kwame Nkrumah's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Earth Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Kwame Nkrumah was born on September 21, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Kwame Nkrumah's birth date, September 21, 1909, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Kwame’s chart

Kwame’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Kwame Nkrumah, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Pluto · Square, 1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.3° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.9° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.4° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.4° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbSun faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.7° orbSun in Virgo · 27°51′☉27°Moon in Sagittarius · 13°13′☽13°Mercury in Libra · 23°51′☿23°Venus in Scorpio · 5°21′♀5°Mars in Aries · 1°34′ · retrograde♂℞1°Jupiter in Virgo · 25°37′♃25°Saturn in Aries · 21°27′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Capricorn · 17°07′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Cancer · 19°04′♆19°Pluto in Gemini · 26°53′♇26°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableSunsquarePluto0.5° to 1.5° orb

    Kwame’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.2° to 1.4° orb

    Kwame’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.9° to 2.6° orb

    Kwame’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb

    Kwame’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.0° to 2.8° orb

    Kwame’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb

    Kwame’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto2.7° to 3.4° orb

    Kwame’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunoppositionMars3.1° to 4.3° orb

    Kwame’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

    Kwame’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune4.4° to 5.1° orb

    Kwame’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableMarssquarePluto4.5° to 4.8° orb

    Kwame’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.7° to 6.2° orb

    Kwame’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Kwame’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 ℞Aquarius 24°08′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Kwame making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°34′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Kwame caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosCancer 21°49′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Kwame is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 20°33′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Kwame at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Kwame that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

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 trine Mercury 0.3°
  • Eros square Saturn 0.4°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 0.9°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.6°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 2.7°
  • Eros conjunction Neptune 2.7°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 2.8°

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°).

Kwame’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. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Kwame is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Kwame’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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Sun, Mars, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Mars, Jupiter, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kwame Nkrumah, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Kwame Nkrumah, 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

Kwame’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8620, 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.

The same Kwame Nkrumah at Wikipedia 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 Kwame Nkrumah.

Quick answers about Kwame Nkrumah’s chart

What zodiac sign was Kwame Nkrumah?
Kwame Nkrumah was a Virgo: born September 21, 1909, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
What was Kwame Nkrumah's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1909 birth.
What time was Kwame Nkrumah 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 was Kwame Nkrumah's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the September 21, 1909 birth date.
What was Kwame Nkrumah's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 21, 1909 birth date.
Where was Kwame Nkrumah's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Kwame Nkrumah's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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