Nelly Furtado
Nelly Furtado (born December 2, 1978, Victoria, Canada), aged 47, is a Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter. Furtado's honours include Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Commander of the Order of Prince Henry and Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album.
Nelly Furtado’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Nelly Furtado’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Nelly in the U.S.?
#1294
US rank in 2025
~7,871
Americans share it since 1880
2007
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Nelly’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Nelly apart
Britney Spears (1981) and Lucy Liu (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Nelly, according to the stars
Core essence
Nelly is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Nelly is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Nelly is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Nelly needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Nelly wants to be loved
Nelly 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 Nelly even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Nelly creates
How Nelly 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. Nelly 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: Nelly is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Nelly is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Nelly has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Nelly's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Nelly sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Nelly Furtado's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 2, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Nelly Furtado was born on December 2, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Nelly Furtado's birth date, December 2, 1978, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Nelly’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nelly Furtado's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nelly Furtado combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Nelly’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Nelly Furtado, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 21° Capricorn 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Nelly’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.5° to 1.7° orb
Nelly’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.8° to 1.8° orb
Nelly’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Nelly’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.2° to 1.4° orb
Nelly’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsquareSaturn2.7° to 3.7° orb
Nelly’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.3° to 4.5° orb
Nelly’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssextilePluto3.7° to 4.4° orb
Nelly’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.2° to 6.1° orb
Nelly’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
Nelly’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.5° to 5.2° orb
Nelly’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.6° to 4.7° orb
Nelly’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Nelly’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°55′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Nelly building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°44′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Nelly caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosScorpio 20°32′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Nelly is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 19°41′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Nelly is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 5°35′ (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. Nelly 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 square Pluto 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 2.4°
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°).
Nelly’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. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Nelly is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Nelly’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.
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
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.
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nelly Furtado, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Nelly’s cards
Every card is computed from December 2, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Nelly Furtado, 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
Nelly’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80424, 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 Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nelly Furtado at Wikipedia, nellyfurtado.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nelly Furtado.
Quick answers about Nelly Furtado’s chart
- How old is Nelly Furtado?
- Nelly Furtado is 47 years old, born December 2, 1978 in Victoria, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Nelly Furtado?
- Nelly Furtado is a Sagittarius: born December 2, 1978, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
- What is Nelly Furtado's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 2, 1978 birth.
- What time was Nelly Furtado 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.
- How tall is Nelly Furtado?
- Nelly Furtado is 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Nelly Furtado's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the December 2, 1978 birth date.
- What is Nelly Furtado's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 2, 1978 birth date.
- Where is Nelly Furtado's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nelly Furtado's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
