Perry Como
Perry Como (born May 18, 1912, Canonsburg, United States; died 2001), was an American singer, actor, television personality. Como's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
Perry Como’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Perry
Perry Como’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Perry in the U.S.?
#1373
US rank in 2025
~79,735
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
The SSA recorded 216 American boys and 18 girls named Perry in 1912: 241st among boys and 1,285th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Perry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on P (7) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Perry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The record
What sets Perry apart
Tina Fey (1970) and Chow Yun-fat (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Perry, according to the stars
Core essence
Perry is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Perry is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Perry processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Perry needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Perry wants to be loved
Perry wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Perry is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Perry creates
How Perry makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Perry builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Perry 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Perry is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Perry 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 Perry's birth date. Working below.
Where Perry sits
Six lines
Perry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Perry Como
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Canonsburg 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 Canonsburg that night
Computed for 40.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Canonsburg was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 84.6° up.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Canonsburg sits at 40.3°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 Canonsburg at all: they sit past the −49.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 7% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
How unusual Perry's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 unaspected planets
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 →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Perry Como's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Perry Como was born on May 18, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Perry Como's birth date, May 18, 1912, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Perry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Perry Como's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Perry Como combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Perry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarssextileSaturn0.1° to 0.5° orb
Perry’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.6° to 1.8° orb
Perry’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
Perry’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.5° to 3.0° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 3.7° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.6° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 1.8° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextilePlutoorb from 3.9° to 5.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 4.1° to 17.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Perry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 10°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 5°30′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 12°31′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 16°27′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 28°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.7°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.4°
- Eros square Venus 1.7°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.2°
Perry’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Perry’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
More people like Perry
Other actors
- Karl Malden1912
- Peter Cushing1913
- Ronald Reagan1911
- Harold Russell1914
- Scatman Crothers1910
- Henry Jones1912
Born in United States
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- Henry JonesAmerican actor of stage, film and television
- Broderick CrawfordAmerican actor
- Joy Bale BooneAmerican poet laureate of Kentucky
- William Alfred FowlerAmerican nuclear physicist
- Julius AxelrodAmerican biochemist
More charts like Perry’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Penny PritzkerAmerican billionaire businesswoman (born 1959)
- Nancy Walton LaurieAmerican heiress, billionaire
- Harsh Mariwala
Born in Rat years
- Bella HadidAmerican model
- Rubens BarrichelloBrazilian racing driver
- Anya Taylor-JoyActress
Also born on May 18
- Tina Fey1970
- Chow Yun-fat1955
- Teresa Giudice1972
- Travis Hunter2003
- Emma Navarro2001
- Theodor Loos1883
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Robert KraftAmerican businessman and philanthropist
- Hiroshi Mikitanifounder of Rakuten
- Shahid KhanAmerican businessman (born 1950)
Other Taurus Rat charts
- Charvarius WardAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Nick AllegrettiAmerican football player
- Blake CashmanAmerican football linebacker
- Gardner MinshewAmerican football player (born 1996)
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Ella LangleyAmerican country singer
- Olivier RousteingFrench fashion designer
- Fred WilsonAmerican venture capitalist and blogger
- Joshua BassettAmerican actor and singer-songwriter
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Dillon MitchellAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Nikola JokićSerbian basketball player (born 1995)
- Liam McNeeleyAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Perry’s cards
Computed from May 18, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Perry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q333405 (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 Walter Albertin, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Perry Como at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Perry Como.
Quick answers about Perry Como’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Perry Como?
- Perry Como was a Taurus: born May 18, 1912, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Perry Como's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1912 birth.
- What was Perry Como's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Perry Como's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Perry Como's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Perry Como's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
