Lena Horne
Lena Horne (born June 30, 1917, New York City, United States; died 2010), was an American singer, actress, dancer and activist. Horne's honours include Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lena Horne’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Lena
Lena Horne’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Lena in the U.S.?
#279
US rank in 2025
~146,805
Americans share it since 1880
1917
its peak year
In 1917, 3,004 American girls and 11 boys were registered Lena — 85th among girls and 2,501st among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lena’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lena’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
The record
What sets Lena apart
Czesław Miłosz (1911) and Mike Tyson (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Lena, according to the stars
Core essence
Lena feels the room before entering it. The core of Lena is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Lena, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Lena feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Lena needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Lena wants to be loved
Lena 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. Lena gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Lena creates
How Lena makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Lena creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Lena is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Lena 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. Lena scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Lena's birth date. Working below.
Where Lena sits
Six lines
Lena’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Lena Horne
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 13.8° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 82% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
How unusual Lena's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Lena Horne at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Lena Horne's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 30, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Lena Horne was born on June 30, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Lena Horne's birth date, June 30, 1917, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Lena’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lena Horne's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Lena Horne combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Lena’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Scorpio 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.3° to 2.2° orb
Lena’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.6° orb
Lena’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
Lena’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.4° to 5.5° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.7° to 7.0° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 3.0° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 3.1° to 16.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.6° to 16.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Lena’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°56′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 21°42′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 12°02′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 8°19′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 26°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.9°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.9°
Lena’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Lena’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 2.5°
More people like Lena
Other actors
- Gregory Peck1916
- Tim Holt1919
- Barry Nelson1917
- Frank Overton1918
- Eli Wallach1915
- Eva Perón1919
Born in United States
- Robert Burns WoodwardAmerican chemist
- Dizzy GillespieAmerican jazz trumpeter
- John F. KennedyPresident of the United States from 1961 to 1963
- Sebastian de GraziaAmerican writer
- Robert LowellAmerican poet
- James RainwaterAmerican physicist
More charts like Lena’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Tupou VI of TongaKing of Tonga
- Lindsey GrahamAmerican politician and attorney
- Sophia BushAmerican actress
Born in Snake years
- Will AndersonAmerican football player (born 2001)
- C. J. StroudAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Kendall MiltonAmerican football running back
Also born on June 30
- Czesław Miłosz1911
- Mike Tyson1966
- Michael Phelps1985
- Fantasia Barrino1984
- Cheryl1983
- Vincent D'Onofrio1959
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Wilson TuckerAmerican writer
- Ben BovaAmerican writer
- Kristine Kathryn RuschAmerican writer and editor
Other Cancer Snake charts
- Chiwetel EjioforBritish actor (born 1977)
- Audrey FleurotFrench actress (1977)
- Katherine HelmondAmerican actress
- Gerald EdelmanAmerican biologist
Other Tidal Visionarys
- Joe LewisBritish businessman
- Jeremy JacobsAmerican ice hockey executive
- Don HankeyAmerican businessman
- Fernando Moreira SallesBrazilian businessman
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Kate SpadeAmerican fashion designer
- Emil Audero MulyadiIndonesian-Italian footballer
- Rob KardashianAmerican television personality and businessman
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Lena’s cards
Computed from June 30, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lena’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q112307 (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 John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lena Horne at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lena Horne.
Quick answers about Lena Horne’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lena Horne?
- Lena Horne was a Cancer: born June 30, 1917, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Lena Horne's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 30, 1917 birth.
- What was Lena Horne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Lena Horne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Lena Horne's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lena Horne's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
