Lorde
Lorde (born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor; November 7, 1996, Auckland, New Zealand, 10:00), aged 30, 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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Lorde
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.
What Lorde’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, not the name they published under.
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Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
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Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lorde’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Lorde apart
Marie Curie (1867) and Albert Camus (1913) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- Croatia and New Zealand
- Languages
- English
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. Working below.
Where Lorde sits
Six lines
Lorde’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Lorde
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Auckland on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Auckland at 10:00, Lorde’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Auckland that night
Computed for 36.85°S, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Auckland was Minkar, in Corvus, 74.8° up.
Of the 77 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Auckland sits at 36.8°S, high enough that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 19% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -44° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor
- Known as
- Lorde
- Born in
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lives in
- Herne Bay
Wikidata records Herne Bay as Lorde's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Lorde's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Debater 巨門 in 巳
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4
Emotional authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · 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.
Score your own chart →Lorde in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Lorde's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 1.6° orb
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 1.9° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 3.0° orb
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 3.6° orb
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 3.9° orb
UranusconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.7° orb
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironLibra 23°50′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°35′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°18′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 13°11′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°10′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Lorde’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Lorde’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.
- 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
| 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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More charts like Lorde’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Sean YoungAmerican actress
- Beverly D'AngeloAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioAmerican actress
Born in Rat years
- Amal El-MohtarCanadian poet and speculative fiction writer
- Vonda N. McIntyreAmerican science fiction writer
- Robert J. SawyerCanadian science fiction writer (born 1960)
Also born on November 7
- Marie Curie1867
- Albert Camus1913
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman1888
- David Guetta1967
- Joni Mitchell1943
- Lisa Su1969
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Felix MorleyAmerican journalist and college administrator
- Jennifer EganAmerican novelist, short story writer
- Linda GreenhouseAmerican journalist
Other Scorpio Rat charts
- Shane ZylstraAmerican football tight end
- Dawson KnoxAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Drew LockAmerican football player (born 1996)
- D'Angelo RossAmerican football player
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Philip KaufmanAmerican film director, screenwriter and film producer
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- Jeffrey BoamAmerican screenwriter, film producer
- Peter S. SeamanAmerican screenwriter and producer (born 1951)
Other Capricorn risings with documented times
- Hillary ScottAmerican singer and songwriter
- Thierry HenryFrench association football player and manager (born 1977)
- Paolo MaldiniItalian association football player (born 1968)
- Francesco TottiItalian association football player
Famous people with Life Path 7
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Lorde’s cards
Computed from November 7, 1996. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Lorde’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13476175 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lorde.
Quick answers about Lorde’s chart
- How old is Lorde?
- Lorde is 30 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.
- 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.
- What is Lorde's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 23°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
