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Prince

Prince (born June 7, 1958, Minneapolis, United States; died 2016), was an American musician. Best-known releases include For You, Sign "O" the Times and Dirty Mind. Prince's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

Prince’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

Your match with Prince

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Prince’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#447

US rank in 2025

~24,151

Americans share it since 1880

2019

its peak year

In 1958, 55 American boys and 7 girls were registered Prince — 1,035th among boys and 5,279th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

Prince’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1958, 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 Prince apart

Orhan Pamuk (1952) and Liam Neeson (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
Latin, Spanish and English

What the chart says

Prince, according to the stars

Core essence

Prince is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Prince needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Prince wants to be loved

Prince 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 Prince is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Prince creates

How Prince makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Prince creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Prince is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Prince 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.

Computed from Prince's birth date. Working below.

Where Prince sits

Six lines

Prince’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Prince

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Prince

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Prince

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Prince

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

PracticalVisionary
Prince

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Prince

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Prince

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis that night

Computed for 44.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Minneapolis at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.5° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.

Minneapolis sits at 45.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Minneapolis at all: they sit past the −45.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at last quarter, 62% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 1° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Minneapolis, United States
Lived in
Minneapolis

Wikidata records Minneapolis as Prince's home, Minneapolis among them.

The death is recorded at Chanhassen, Hennepin County in 2016.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Prince: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Prince's chart is

Chart pattern score

72 / 100 · Rare

Yod onto Mars · Yod onto Neptune · T-square onto Mercury

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

Prince's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 7, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Prince was born on June 7, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Prince's birth date, June 7, 1958, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Prince’s chart

Prince’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.9° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.2° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.3° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.6° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.6° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 4.8° orbSun in Gemini · 16°26′☉16°Moon in Aquarius · 28°46′☽28°Mercury in Gemini · 3°34′☿3°Venus in Taurus · 7°32′♀7°Mars in Aries · 0°19′♂0°Jupiter in Libra · 21°57′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Sagittarius · 22°53′ · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Leo · 8°45′♅8°Neptune in Scorpio · 2°21′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Leo · 29°58′♇29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableMoonoppositionPluto0.1° to 7.4° orb

    Prince’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.7° to 1.8° orb

    Prince’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn0.9° orb

    Prince’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars2.6° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.6° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter5.0° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn5.9° to 7.0° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.4° orb

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 22°40′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 10°05′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 19°47′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°48′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.3°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.6°

Prince’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Prince’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Venus, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mars · Neptune, Pluto, MarsTwo 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Neptune · Mercury, Mars, NeptuneTwo 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.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.2°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.2°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 2.0°

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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households

Prince’s cards

Computed from June 7, 1958. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Prince’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7542 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, based on File:Prince promo picture (1988; cropped).png, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Prince at Wikipedia, prince.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, 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 Prince.

Quick answers about Prince’s chart

What zodiac sign was Prince?
Prince was a Gemini: born June 7, 1958, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Prince's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 7, 1958 birth.
How tall was Prince?
Prince was 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Prince's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Prince's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Prince's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Prince's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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