Ray Charles
Ray Charles (born September 23, 1930, Albany, United States; died 2004), was an American singer, pianist and songwriter. Charles is best remembered for Georgia on My Mind / Carry Me Back to Old Virginny. Charles's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Blues Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.
Ray Charles’s zodiac sign was Virgo or Libra (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Metal Horse, with 
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How common is the name Ray in the U.S.?
#792
US rank in 2025
~210,307
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ray, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Ray cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Ray needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Ray wants to be loved
Ray wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Ray even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ray creates
How Ray makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Ray creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Ray is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Ray 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 Ray 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 Ray's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Ray Charles at a glance
Virgo or Libra Sun
Ray Charles was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Ray Charles was born on September 23, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Ray Charles's birth date, September 23, 1930, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Ray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ray Charles' date-only chart is Venus trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
Ray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ray Charles, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Libra 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.
stableVenustrineMars0.0° to 0.2° orb
Ray’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.1° orb
Ray’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.2° to 2.0° orb
Ray’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.4° to 1.8° orb
Ray’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareUranus1.5° to 2.1° orb
Ray’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.7° to 4.7° orb
Ray’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.3° to 3.5° orb
Ray’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
Ray’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenustrinePluto4.6° to 5.4° orb
Ray’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.7° to 5.2° orb
Ray’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareSaturn5.0° to 6.0° orb
Ray’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquarePluto6.8° orb
Ray’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ray’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°28′ (moves 0.03° 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 Ray building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 2°11′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Ray caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosGemini 18°02′ (moves 0.67° 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. Ray is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 17°07′ (moves 0.08° 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 Ray needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 24°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Ray at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.7°
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°).
Ray’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Ray is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Ray’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ray Charles, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ray’s cards
Every card is computed from September 23, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ray Charles, 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
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q544387, 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 William Morris Agency (management)/Photo by Maurice Seymour, New York., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Charles at Wikipedia, raycharles.com, IMDb, Instagram, 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.
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Quick answers about Ray Charles’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ray Charles?
- Ray Charles was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. 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 were a Metal Horse.
- What was Ray Charles's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1930 birth.
- What time was Ray Charles 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 was Ray Charles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the September 23, 1930 birth date.
- What was Ray Charles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 23, 1930 birth date.
- Where was Ray Charles's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ray Charles's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
