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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942, Louisville, United States, 18:35; died 2016), was an American boxer. Ali's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, International Boxing Hall of Fame and Associated Press Athlete of the Year.

Muhammad Ali’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Muhammad Ali’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

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

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

#239

US rank in 2025

~21,962

Americans share it since 1929

2025

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Muhammad falls under that line for 1942. Its peak came in 2025, and 21,962 Americans have carried it since 1929.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Muhammad’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., not the name they published under.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.

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

Muhammad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Muhammad apart

Michelle Obama (1964) and Jim Carrey (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Sport
boxing
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Muhammad, according to the stars

Core essence

Muhammad is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Muhammad is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Muhammad needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Muhammad needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Muhammad wants to be loved

Muhammad wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Muhammad be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Muhammad creates

How Muhammad makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Muhammad creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Muhammad 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Muhammad 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Muhammad is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Muhammad's birth date. Working below.

Where Muhammad sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Muhammad

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Muhammad

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Muhammad

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Muhammad

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

PracticalVisionary
Muhammad

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Muhammad

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

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Muhammad’s birth-sky starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 84.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 60.9° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Louisville at 18:35, Muhammad Ali’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Louisville that night

Computed for 38.26°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Louisville at the birth hour: Algol of Perseus, within 5.5° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

Louisville sits at 38.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Louisville at all: they sit past the −51.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.

The name and the places

Born as
Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
Known as
Muhammad Ali
Born in
Louisville, United States
Lived in
Cherry Hill

Wikidata records Cherry Hill as Muhammad Ali's home, against Louisville as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Scottsdale, Maricopa County in 2016.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Muhammad's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Lunar Star 太陰 in 辰

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 1/4

Emotional authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

82 / 100 · Rare

6 planets retrograde · 3-planet stellium in Aquarius · Grand trine

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.

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Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Muhammad Ali's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.

What Capricorn means →

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Muhammad Ali was born on January 17, 1942, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Muhammad Ali's birth date, January 17, 1942, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Muhammad’s chart

Muhammad’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.5° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 1° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.1° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.6° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.5° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 27°18′ · house 6☉27°Moon in Aquarius · 12°26′ · house 7☽12°Mercury in Aquarius · 13°31′ · house 7☿13°Venus in Aquarius · 20°40′ · house 7 · retrograde♀℞20°Mars in Taurus · 3°04′ · house 10♂3°Jupiter in Gemini · 11°57′ · house 11 · retrograde♃℞11°Saturn in Taurus · 21°40′ · house 10 · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Taurus · 26°28′ · house 10 · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Virgo · 29°48′ · house 2 · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Leo · 4°48′ · house 1 · retrograde♇℞4°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 19°32′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 19°32′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 12°14′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 12°14′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantLeo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoontrineJupiterseparating · 0.5° orb

    Muhammad’s feelings flow straight into their growth.

  • SuntrineUranusseparating · 0.8° orb

    Muhammad’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • VenussquareSaturnseparating · 1.0° orb

    Muhammad’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MoonconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.1° orb

  • MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 1.6° orb

  • MarssquarePlutoapplying · 1.7° orb

  • SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 2.5° orb

  • UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 3.3° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 4.8° orb

  • SuntrineSaturnseparating · 5.6° orb

  • SunsquareMarsapplying · 5.8° orb

  • VenussquareUranusseparating · 5.8° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 7.2° orb

  • SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.5° orb

  • MoonoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 12°29′ · House 1

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 7°39′ · House 7

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 20°15′ · House 5

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°18′ · House 10

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°13′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Moon 0.0°
  • Eros sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Eros trine Ascendant 0.7°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 1.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.2°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 2.0°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 2.8°

Muhammad’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus12 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon, Mercury, Venus; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn10.5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Muhammad’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Moon, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Sun, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.4°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°

Muhammad’s houses

Muhammad’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Capricorn, house 6Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 7Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Aquarius, house 7emptymind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 1emptyhome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Gemini, house 11emptycreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 10Sunwork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Taurus, house 10Moon, Mercury, Venuspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Virgo, house 2emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Taurus, house 10emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Aquarius, house 7Mars, Saturn, Uranuscareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 7Jupiterfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Aquarius, house 7emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Muhammad’s cards

Computed from January 17, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Muhammad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q36107 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Muhammad Ali at Wikipedia, 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 Muhammad Ali.

Quick answers about Muhammad Ali’s chart

What zodiac sign was Muhammad Ali?
Muhammad Ali was a Capricorn: born January 17, 1942, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What was Muhammad Ali's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1942 birth.
What time was Muhammad Ali born?
18:35 local time in Louisville, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Muhammad Ali's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 18:35 birth time in Louisville, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall was Muhammad Ali?
Muhammad Ali was 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Muhammad Ali's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Muhammad Ali's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 12°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Muhammad Ali's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Muhammad Ali's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon, Mercury, Venus; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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