Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton (born April 20, 1908, Louisville, United States; died 2002), was an American jazz musician. Hampton's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, NEA Jazz Masters and Paul Acket Award.
Lionel Hampton’s zodiac sign was Aries or Taurus (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Earth Monkey, with 
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How common is the name Lionel in the U.S.?
#659
US rank in 2025
~33,833
Americans share it since 1880
2023
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Lionel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
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Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Lionel, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Lionel 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 Lionel 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 Lionel wants to be loved
Lionel wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Lionel like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Lionel creates
How Lionel makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Lionel creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Lionel is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Lionel is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Lionel scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Lionel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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The quick version
Aries or Taurus Sun
Lionel Hampton was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Lionel Hampton was born on April 20, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Lionel Hampton's birth date, April 20, 1908, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Lionel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lionel Hampton's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
Lionel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Lionel Hampton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° 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.
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.
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.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.5° orb
Lionel’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.3° to 0.4° orb
Lionel’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.1° orb
Lionel’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.1° to 4.9° orb
Lionel’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileMars3.3° to 4.4° orb
Lionel’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb
Lionel’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.6° orb
Lionel’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.4° to 6.8° orb
Lionel’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto7.0° to 8.0° orb
Lionel’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 1.8° to 13.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Lionel’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°40′ (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 Lionel making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 6°47′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Lionel is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosCancer 22°27′ (moves 0.93° 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. Lionel is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 16°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Lionel is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Lionel is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.2°
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.9°
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°).
Lionel’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Lionel 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 Lionel’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 onto Mercury · Uranus, Neptune, MercuryAn 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.
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lionel Hampton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Lionel’s cards
Every card is computed from April 20, 1908, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Lionel Hampton, 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
Lionel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313525, 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.
Portrait by Helmut Montag, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lionel Hampton at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about Lionel Hampton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lionel Hampton?
- Lionel Hampton was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- What was Lionel Hampton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1908 birth.
- What time was Lionel Hampton 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 Lionel Hampton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 20, 1908 birth date.
- What was Lionel Hampton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 20, 1908 birth date.
- Where was Lionel Hampton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lionel Hampton's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
