Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973, Virginia Beach, United States), aged 53, is an American record producer and songwriter. Best-known releases include In My Mind and Girl. Williams's honours include Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album.
Pharrell Williams’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Ox, with 
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Pharrell Williams’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 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Pharrell in the U.S.?
#7551
US rank in 2025
~460
Americans share it since 1880
2003
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Pharrell’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Pharrell, according to the stars
Core essence
Pharrell leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Pharrell is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Pharrell is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Pharrell needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Pharrell wants to be loved
Pharrell wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Pharrell creates
How Pharrell makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Pharrell creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Pharrell 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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Pharrell is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Pharrell goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Pharrell's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Pharrell Williams's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 5, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Pharrell Williams was born on April 5, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Pharrell Williams's birth date, April 5, 1973, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Pharrell’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pharrell Williams' date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Pharrell Williams combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Pharrell’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Pharrell Williams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Taurus 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.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Pharrell’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Pharrell’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.3° to 0.5° orb
Pharrell’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.0° orb
Pharrell’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.7° to 1.8° orb
Pharrell’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.2° orb
Pharrell’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.4° to 3.1° orb
Pharrell’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrinePluto3.9° to 4.6° orb
Pharrell’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
Pharrell’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrinePluto4.8° to 5.0° orb
Pharrell’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunoppositionUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
Pharrell’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.2° to 5.4° orb
Pharrell’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Pharrell’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.
⚷ ChironAries 16°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Pharrell may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 17°40′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Pharrell is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosGemini 6°01′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Pharrell is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 12°00′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Pharrell is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 15°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Pharrell leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 1.0°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.0°
- Eros trine Mars 1.0°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.7°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.7°
- Ceres trine Venus 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°).
Pharrell’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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Pharrell is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Pharrell’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Pharrell Williams, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Pharrell’s cards
Every card is computed from April 5, 1973, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Pharrell Williams, 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
Pharrell’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14313, 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 Web Summit/Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Pharrell Williams at Wikipedia, pharrellwilliams.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 Pharrell Williams.
Quick answers about Pharrell Williams’s chart
- How old is Pharrell Williams?
- Pharrell Williams is 53 years old, born April 5, 1973 in Virginia Beach, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Pharrell Williams?
- Pharrell Williams is an Aries: born April 5, 1973, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox.
- What is Pharrell Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 5, 1973 birth.
- What time was Pharrell Williams 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.
- What is Pharrell Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the April 5, 1973 birth date.
- What is Pharrell Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 5, 1973 birth date.
- Where is Pharrell Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Pharrell Williams's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
