Nas
Nas (born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones; September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, United States), aged 53, is an American rapper. Best-known releases include Illmatic, It Was Written and I Am....
Nas’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Nas
Nas’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Nas in the U.S.?
#4991
US rank in 2025
~253
Americans share it since 1997
2020
its peak year
US records hold Nas from 1997 onward, though not for 1973 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2020 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nas’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, not the name they published under.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on N (5) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
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 1973, 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 Nas apart
The working life starts in 1989, at 16.
Nas was born to Olu Dara and married Kelis.
Wikipedia's editors put Nas under Ill Will Records artists, African-American male rappers and Def Jam Recordings artists.
The same date carries Andrew Lincoln. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 1989
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Nas, according to the stars
Core essence
Nas 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 Nas is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Nas runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Nas needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Nas wants to be loved
Nas wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Nas even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Nas creates
How Nas makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Nas creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Nas is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Nas 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 Nas 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 Nas's birth date. Working below.
Where Nas sits
Six lines
Nas’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Nas
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
The Moon, 93% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 21° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
- Known as
- Nas
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nas: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Nas's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Jupiter
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.
Score your own chart →Nas at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Nas's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Nas was born on September 14, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Nas's birth date, September 14, 1973, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Nas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nas' date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nas combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Nas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.8° orb
Nas’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.0° orb
Nas’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.5° to 1.7° orb
Nas’s affections grind against their growth.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.3° to 2.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.3° to 2.9° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn1.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.3° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.3° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.4° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Nas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°48′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°44′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 26°45′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 14°13′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.8°
Nas’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Nas’s chart
Yod onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.2°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury biquintile Mars 1.4°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.6°
Born the same day as Nas
Andrew Lincoln was born on September 14, 1973 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 Brooklyn, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Nas
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Born in United States
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- Monica LewinskyAmerican activist and writer (born 1973)
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- Shannon ElizabethAmerican actress
More charts like Nas’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Peter SellersBritish actor and comedian
- Glen Cavenderactor
- Porter HallAmerican actor
Born in Ox years
- Michael PhelpsAmerican swimmer
- Bruce SpringsteenAmerican rock singer
- Edwin HubbleAmerican astronomer
Also born on September 14
- Leo XIV1955
- Sam Neill1947
- Han2000
- Ron DeSantis1978
- Terry Dubrow1958
- Logan Henderson1989
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Bethany WhitmoreAustralian actress
- Omi VaidyaIndian actor
- Babak KarimiIranian film editor and actor
Other Virgo Ox charts
- Devin SingletaryAmerican football player
- Erik McCoyAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Akeem Davis-GaitherAmerican football outside linebacker
- Benjamin St-JusteAmerican football players from Canada
Other Tidal Seekers
- Melanie CBritish pop singer
- Eric DeckerAmerican football wide receiver
- Kelsey GrammerAmerican actor
- Candice KingAmerican actress and singer
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Sondre LangåsNorwegian footballer (born 2001)
- Tomoki HayakawaJapanese association football player
- Marco PašalićCroatian-German association football player
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Nas’s cards
Computed from September 14, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q194220 (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 All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nas at Wikipedia, nasirjones.com, 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 Nas.
Quick answers about Nas’s chart
- How old is Nas?
- Nas is 53 years old, born September 14, 1973 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nas?
- Nas is a Virgo: born September 14, 1973, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Nas's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1973 birth.
- What is Nas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Nas's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nas's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
