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Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill (born May 26, 1975, East Orange, United States, 12:23), aged 51, is an American singer and rapper. Best-known releases include The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Hill's honours include Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Amadeus Austrian Music Awards.

Lauryn Hill’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Lauryn Hill’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#1455

US rank in 2025

~22,168

Americans share it since 1952

1999

its peak year

In 1975, 9 American girls were registered Lauryn — 6,217th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lauryn’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on L (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Lauryn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green

The record

What sets Lauryn apart

The Grammy Award for Best New Artist came in 1999, when Lauryn Hill was 24.

The schooling ran through Columbia High School.

Lauryn Hill was 13 when the work began in 1988.

Lauryn Hill was raised one child.

Miles Davis (1926) and Sally Ride (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Columbia High School
Instruments
guitar and voice
Awards
Grammy Award for Best New Artist (1999)
Nominated for
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
Working from
1988
Wikipedia editions
56

What the chart says

Lauryn, according to the stars

Core essence

Lauryn is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Lauryn needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Lauryn 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 Lauryn 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 Lauryn wants to be loved

Lauryn wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Lauryn gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Lauryn creates

How Lauryn makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Lauryn creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Lauryn is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Lauryn is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Lauryn 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 Lauryn's birth date. Working below.

Where Lauryn sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Lauryn

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lauryn

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Lauryn

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lauryn

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

PracticalVisionary
Lauryn

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lauryn

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Lauryn Hill

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

Read from the sky above East Orange at 12:23, Lauryn Hill’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over East Orange that night

Computed for 40.77°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at East Orange was Menkib, in Perseus, 84.0° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

East Orange sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -69° down.

What Lauryn's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Minister 天相 in 亥

Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Self

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 5/2

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth planets · 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.

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The quick version

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Lauryn Hill's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.

What Gemini means →

Wood Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Lauryn Hill was born on May 26, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Lauryn Hill's birth date, May 26, 1975, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Lauryn’s chart

Lauryn’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 0.4° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.7° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.8° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.6° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4° orbSun in Gemini · 4°48′ · house 10☉4°Moon in Sagittarius · 22°48′ · house 4☽22°Mercury in Gemini · 23°15′ · house 10☿23°Venus in Cancer · 18°38′ · house 11♀18°Mars in Aries · 4°00′ · house 8♂4°Jupiter in Aries · 15°43′ · house 8♃15°Saturn in Cancer · 16°23′ · house 11♄16°Uranus in Libra · 29°04′ · house 2 · retrograde♅℞29°Neptune in Sagittarius · 10°35′ · house 4 · retrograde♆℞10°Pluto in Libra · 6°36′ · house 2 · retrograde♇℞6°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 2°28′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 2°28′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 27°26′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 27°26′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantVirgo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoonoppositionMercuryapplying · 0.4° orb

    Lauryn’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.

  • JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 0.7° orb

    Lauryn’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • SunsextileMarsseparating · 0.8° orb

    Lauryn’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • SuntrinePlutoapplying · 1.8° orb

  • VenusconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.2° orb

  • MarsoppositionPlutoapplying · 2.6° orb

  • VenussquareJupiterseparating · 2.9° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.0° orb

  • JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 5.1° orb

  • SunoppositionNeptuneapplying · 5.8° orb

  • MercurytrineUranusapplying · 5.8° orb

  • MarstrineNeptuneapplying · 6.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed0 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 26°21′ · House 8

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 8°35′ · House 9

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 22°04′ · House 1

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 2°59′ · House 10

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°18′ · House 7

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Ascendant 0.5°
  • Eros square Moon 0.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.0°
  • Eros square Mercury 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.7°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.7°

Lauryn’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6 pts

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

Configurations in Lauryn’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.

  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°

Lauryn’s houses

Lauryn’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 10emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Cancer, house 11Uranus, Plutomoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 2emptymind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Aries, house 8Moon, Neptunehome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Cancer, house 11emptycreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Libra, house 2emptywork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 4emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Aries, house 8Mars, Jupitershared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 11emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 10Sun, Mercurycareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Sagittarius, house 4Venus, Saturnfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Gemini, house 10emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Lauryn’s cards

Computed from May 26, 1975. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lauryn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q214226 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Lauryn Hill at Wikipedia, mslaurynhill.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lauryn Hill.

Quick answers about Lauryn Hill’s chart

How old is Lauryn Hill?
Lauryn Hill is 51 years old, born May 26, 1975 in East Orange, United States.
What zodiac sign is Lauryn Hill?
Lauryn Hill is a Gemini: born May 26, 1975, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What is Lauryn Hill's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1975 birth.
What time was Lauryn Hill born?
12:23 local time in East Orange, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Lauryn Hill's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 12:23 birth time in East Orange, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Lauryn Hill's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Lauryn Hill's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Lauryn Hill's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 12°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Lauryn Hill's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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