What zodiac sign was Pablo Picasso?

Pablo Picasso was a Scorpio: born October 25, 1881, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.

What was Pablo Picasso's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 25, 1881 birth.

What time was Pablo Picasso born?

23:15 local time in Málaga, Spain, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What was Pablo Picasso's rising sign?

Leo rising, calculated from the documented 23:15 birth time in Málaga, Spain (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

What was Pablo Picasso's Life Path number?

Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 25, 1881 birth date.

What was Pablo Picasso's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Taurus at 21°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 25, 1881 birth time.

Where was Pablo Picasso's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Pablo Picasso's dominant planet?

Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (born October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain, 23:15; died 1973), was a Spanish painter and sculptor. Picasso is best remembered for Guernica, Garçon à la pipe and Science and Charity. Picasso's honours include Lenin Peace Prize and honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Pablo Picasso’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Pablo Picasso’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Scholar

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#430

US rank in 2025

~50,439

Americans share it since 1880

2006

its peak year

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Pablo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Pablo, according to the stars

Core essence

Pablo does not do surface. The core of Pablo 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 Pablo is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Pablo is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Pablo needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Pablo wants to be loved

Pablo 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. Pablo gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Pablo creates

How Pablo makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Pablo creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Pablo 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 8 is the powerhouse. Pablo is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Pablo does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Pablo's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Pablo sits

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Intimate circleWide network

Pablo

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Pablo

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

PrivateExpressive

Pablo

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Pablo

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

PracticalVisionary

Pablo

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Pablo

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Pablo’s birth-sky starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 84.3° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 48.9° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Málaga at 23:15, the birth time on Pablo Picasso’s AA-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

Pablo Picasso'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.

Metal Snake

Private by design.

Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Pablo Picasso's birth date, October 25, 1881, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Pablo’s chart

Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Pablo Picasso's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Mercury in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Saturn in the 10th house, Neptune in the 10th house and Pluto in the 10th house.
The tightest major aspect in Pablo Picasso's timed chart is Mercury opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
Four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
Pablo Picasso combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.

Pablo’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.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn

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

MercuryoppositionJupiterseparating · 0.7° orb
Pablo’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 1.5° orb
Pablo’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MarssextileSaturnseparating · 2.9° orb
Pablo’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
MarssextileNeptuneapplying · 3.2° orb
Pablo’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsextileVenusseparating · 3.7° orb
Pablo’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryoppositionPlutoapplying · 4.5° orb
Pablo’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MarssextileUranusapplying · 4.7° orb
Pablo’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupiterconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.2° orb
Pablo’s growth and depths act as one.
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 5.7° orb
Pablo’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 6.1° orb
Pablo’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
JupitertrineUranusapplying · 6.5° orb
Pablo’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 6.7° orb
Pablo’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire1 of 10
Earth5 of 10
Air1 of 10
Water3 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed6 of 10
Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Pablo’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.

⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 21°03′ · House 10
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 Pablo building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°56′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Pablo is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosVirgo 27°08′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Pablo is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaLeo 19°08′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Pablo at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 14°33′ · House 1
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. Pablo is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.0°
Eros trine Pluto 1.7°
Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.5°
Eros sextile Mercury 2.9°

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°).

Pablo’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Pablo is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Pablo’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

Stellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.

Sun semi-square Uranus 0.7°
Venus biquintile Saturn 1.1°
Moon quincunx Saturn 1.2°
Mars semi-square Pluto 1.4°
Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°

Pablo’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	Leo	Sun in Scorpio, house 4	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Virgo	Mercury in Scorpio, house 4	Uranus	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Libra	Venus in Libra, house 3	Venus	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Scorpio	Pluto in Taurus, house 10	Sun, Mercury	home, family, roots
5	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Taurus, house 10	Moon	creativity, romance, play
6	Capricorn	Saturn in Taurus, house 10	empty	work, habits, health
7	Aquarius	Uranus in Virgo, house 2	empty	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Pisces	Neptune in Taurus, house 10	empty	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Aries	Mars in Cancer, house 12	empty	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Taurus	Venus in Libra, house 3	Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto	career, reputation, public life
11	Gemini	Mercury in Scorpio, house 4	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Cancer	Moon in Sagittarius, house 5	Mars	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Pablo’s cards

Every card is computed from October 25, 1881, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Star

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Scholar

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Pablo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5593, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Jean Cocteau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Pablo Picasso at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Pablo Picasso.

Quick answers about Pablo Picasso’s chart

What zodiac sign was Pablo Picasso?: Pablo Picasso was a Scorpio: born October 25, 1881, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
What was Pablo Picasso's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 25, 1881 birth.
What time was Pablo Picasso born?: 23:15 local time in Málaga, Spain, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Pablo Picasso's rising sign?: Leo rising, calculated from the documented 23:15 birth time in Málaga, Spain (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Pablo Picasso's Life Path number?: Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 25, 1881 birth date.
What was Pablo Picasso's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Taurus at 21°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 25, 1881 birth time.
Where was Pablo Picasso's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Pablo Picasso's dominant planet?: Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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Pablo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Pablo, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Pablo wants to be loved

How Pablo creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

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Dedicate a star to Pablo Picasso

Scorpio Sun

Metal Snake

Life Path 8

What stands out in Pablo’s chart

Pablo’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Pablo’s dominant planets

Configurations in Pablo’s chart

Minor aspects

Pablo’s houses

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