Lorde
Lorde (born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor; November 7, 1996, Auckland, New Zealand, 10:00), aged 29, is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and producer. Best-known releases include Pure Heroine, Melodrama and Solar Power. Lorde's honours include Aotearoa Music Award for Best Solo Artist and Billboard 21 Under 21.
Lorde’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rat, with 
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Lorde’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
Lorde’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Lorde, according to the stars
Core essence
Lorde does not do surface. The core of Lorde is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Lorde is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Lorde is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Lorde needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Lorde wants to be loved
Lorde wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Lorde gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Lorde creates
How Lorde 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. Lorde 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: Lorde is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Lorde 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 Lorde 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 Lorde's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Lorde sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Lorde's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Fire Rat
Fire RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Lorde was born on November 7, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Lorde's birth date, November 7, 1996, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Lorde’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Lorde's timed chart: Venus in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Saturn in the 4th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Lorde's timed chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Lorde combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Lorde’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 0.3° orb
Lorde’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
SunsextileJupiterseparating · 1.0° orb
Lorde’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 1.1° orb
Lorde’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
UranussextilePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
Lorde’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 1.6° orb
Lorde’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 1.9° orb
Lorde’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 3.0° orb
Lorde’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 3.6° orb
Lorde’s affections grind against their growth.
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 3.9° orb
Lorde’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
UranusconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.7° orb
Lorde’s need for freedom and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 7.6° orb
Lorde’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Lorde’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.
⚷ ChironLibra 23°50′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Lorde is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°35′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Lorde is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°18′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Lorde attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 13°11′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Lorde feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°10′ · House 8
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. Lorde is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea square Ascendant 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.4°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.6°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.5°
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°).
Lorde’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Mars; 2 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Lorde is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Lorde’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
Lorde’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 4 | Jupiter, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aquarius, house 2 | Uranus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 9 | Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Libra, house 10 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 11 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 9 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 11 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 11 | Moon, Mars | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Libra, house 10 | Venus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Sagittarius, house 12 | Sun, Mercury | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 1 | Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Lorde’s cards
Every card is computed from November 7, 1996, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Lorde’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13476175, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lorde at Wikipedia, lorde.co.nz, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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 Lorde’s chart
- How old is Lorde?
- Lorde is 29 years old, born November 7, 1996 in Auckland, New Zealand.
- What zodiac sign is Lorde?
- Lorde is a Scorpio: born November 7, 1996, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- What is Lorde's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1996 birth.
- What time was Lorde born?
- 10:00 local time in Auckland, New Zealand, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Lorde's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 10:00 birth time in Auckland, New Zealand (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Lorde's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 7, 1996 birth date.
- What is Lorde's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 23°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 7, 1996 birth time.
- Where is Lorde's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lorde's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
