Rachel Platten
Rachel Platten (born May 20, 1981, New York City, United States), aged 45, is an American singer, songwriter and author (born 1981). Platten is best known for Fight Song.
Rachel Platten’s zodiac sign is Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Metal Rooster, with 
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- · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons
How common is the name Rachel in the U.S.?
#250
US rank in 2025
~575,748
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Rachel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Rachel apart
The same date carries Iker Casillas. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
What the chart says
Rachel, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Rachel 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 Rachel 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 Rachel wants to be loved
Rachel wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Rachel like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Rachel creates
How Rachel 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. Rachel 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: Rachel is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Rachel 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Rachel is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Rachel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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The quick version
Taurus or Gemini Sun
Rachel Platten was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Rachel Platten was born on May 20, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Rachel Platten's birth date, May 20, 1981, 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 Rachel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rachel Platten's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Rachel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Rachel Platten, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Sagittarius 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.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.4° to 1.7° orb
Rachel’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.5° to 1.5° orb
Rachel’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunoppositionUranus1.0° to 2.0° orb
Rachel’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
Rachel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.9° orb
Rachel’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.5° orb
Rachel’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.7° orb
Rachel’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.2° to 4.2° orb
Rachel’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.4° orb
Rachel’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.3° to 12.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Rachel’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 18°49′ (moves 0.07° 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 Rachel building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 1°48′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Rachel is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosPisces 25°05′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Rachel is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 19°01′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Rachel needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 15°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Rachel is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Chiron conjunction Mars 0.1°
- Eros square Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.9°
- Eros trine Uranus 3.0°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 3.0°
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°).
Rachel’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. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Rachel is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Rachel’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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rachel Platten, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Rachel
Iker Casillas was born on May 20, 1981 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Rachel
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Born in United States
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- Jessica AlbaAmerican actress
- Amy SchumerAmerican comedian and actress (born 1981)
- Bryce Dallas HowardAmerican actress and filmmaker
- Michael SorrentinoAmerican television personality
- Katori HallAmerican playwright
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Born in Rooster years
- Fred L. PackerAmerican cartoonist and illustrator
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- Afua CooperJamaican-born Canadian multidisciplinary scholar, artist, and academic (born 1957)
Also born on May 20
- Cher1946
- José Mujica1935
- Petr Čech1982
- Timothy Olyphant1968
- Tony Goldwyn1960
- Cindy McCain1954
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Marilynne RobinsonAmerican novelist and essayist (born 1943)
- Dean AchesonAmerican statesman and lawyer
- Edith WhartonAmerican writer and designer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Amy WinehouseEnglish singer-songwriter
- Owen WilsonAmerican actor (born 1968)
- Bradley WhitfordAmerican actor (born 1959)
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Rachel’s cards
Every card is computed from May 20, 1981, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Rachel Platten, 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
Rachel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7279360, 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 Justin Higuchi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rachel Platten at Wikipedia, 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 Rachel Platten.
Quick answers about Rachel Platten’s chart
- How old is Rachel Platten?
- Rachel Platten is 45 years old, born May 20, 1981 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rachel Platten?
- Rachel Platten was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster.
- What is Rachel Platten's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1981 birth.
- What time was Rachel Platten 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 Rachel Platten's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 20, 1981 birth date.
- What is Rachel Platten's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 20, 1981 birth date.
- Where is Rachel Platten's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rachel Platten's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
