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Leo XIV

Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost; September 14, 1955, Chicago, United States), aged 71 is a 267th Pope of the Catholic Church.

Leo XIV (born 1955) served as the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church. Leo has held office as Cardinal-Bishop of Albano and Prior General of Order of Saint Augustine. Leo's honours include Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Supreme Order of Christ and Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

Leo XIV’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

Your match with Leo

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Leo XIV’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#19

US rank in 2025

~262,124

Americans share it since 1880

2022

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1955, Leo came 175th among boys and 4,243rd among girls, carried by 1,576 American boys and 9 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Leo’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Robert Francis Prevost, not the name they published under.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

33

Personality · warm authority

The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Leo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Leo apart

Leo XIV took the Order of the Bath in 2025, at 70.

The classrooms behind this chart: St. Augustine Seminary High School and Catholic Theological Union.

Leo XIV was born to Mildred Agnes Martinez and Louis Marius Prevost.

The same date carries Geraldine Brooks. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
St. Augustine Seminary High School, Catholic Theological Union and Villanova University
Awards
Time 100 (2026) and Order of the Bath (2025)
Citizenship
United States and Vatican City
Languages
French, German and Latin
Wikipedia editions
174

What the chart says

Leo, according to the stars

Core essence

Leo 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 Leo is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Leo wants to be loved

Leo wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Leo and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Leo creates

How Leo makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Leo creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Leo is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Leo is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Leo channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Leo's birth date. Working below.

Where Leo sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Leo

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Leo

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

PrivateExpressive
Leo

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Leo

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

PracticalVisionary
Leo

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Leo

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Leo’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 86.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 18° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Chicago that night

Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 86.9° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.

Sun 21° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born as
Robert Francis Prevost
Known as
Leo XIV
Born in
Chicago, United States
Lives in
Vatican City

Wikidata records Vatican City as Leo XIV's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leo XIV: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Leo's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Virgo · 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.

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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Leo XIV's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Leo XIV was born on September 14, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Leo XIV's birth date, September 14, 1955, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Leo’s chart

Leo’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.7° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.9° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.6° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.1° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.1° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.4° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.8° orbSun in Virgo · 21°06′☉21°Moon in Virgo · 1°25′☽1°Mercury in Libra · 17°15′☿17°Venus in Virgo · 24°44′♀24°Mars in Virgo · 11°38′♂11°Jupiter in Leo · 19°59′♃19°Saturn in Scorpio · 17°02′♄17°Uranus in Leo · 1°03′♅1°Neptune in Libra · 26°39′♆26°Pluto in Leo · 27°17′♇27°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb

    Leo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb

    Leo’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn2.9° to 3.0° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.2° to 7.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 3.7° to 16.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 4.6° to 18.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 0°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°50′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 26°25′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 4°36′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Mars 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.2°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.6°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.9°

Leo’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus3 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Leo’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.

  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°

Born the same day as Leo

Geraldine Brooks was born on September 14, 1955 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Chicago, at 41.9°N, nothing below −48.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?

Leo’s cards

Computed from September 14, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Leo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6109517 (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 Ricardo Stuckert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Leo XIV at Wikipedia, vatican.va, IMDb, 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 Leo XIV.

Quick answers about Leo XIV’s chart

How old is Leo XIV?
Leo XIV is 71 years old, born September 14, 1955 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Leo XIV?
Leo XIV is a Virgo: born September 14, 1955, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Leo XIV's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1955 birth.
What is Leo XIV's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Leo XIV's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Leo XIV's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Leo XIV's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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