Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio (born August 1, 1949, Jackson Heights, United States), aged 77, is an American billionaire hedge fund manager. Dalio is best known for Principles: Life & Work.
Ray Dalio’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Ray Dalio’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ray, according to the stars
Core essence
Ray is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Ray is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Ray feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Ray needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Ray wants to be loved
Ray wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Ray and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Ray creates
How Ray makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ray creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Ray 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ray is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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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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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Ray Dalio's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Ray Dalio was born on August 1, 1949, which falls in a Earth 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 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Ray Dalio's birth date, August 1, 1949, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Ray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ray Dalio's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Ray Dalio combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Ray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ray Dalio, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Scorpio 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.6° orb
Ray’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.4° to 0.9° orb
Ray’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenussextileMars0.7° to 1.2° orb
Ray’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.1° to 2.2° orb
Ray’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.6° to 3.6° orb
Ray’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
Ray’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus3.0° to 3.6° orb
Ray’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb
Ray’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileNeptune3.3° to 4.2° orb
Ray’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileUranus3.7° to 4.8° orb
Ray’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 6.9° orb
Ray’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareNeptune6.2° to 6.8° orb
Ray’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 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 ℞Sagittarius 2°52′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Ray building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 18°09′ (moves 0.43° 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.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 8°49′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Ray is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 25°42′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Ray is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Ray carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.0°
- Eros opposition Sun 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.8°
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. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Ray is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Leo · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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 semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ray Dalio, 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 August 1, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ray Dalio, 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 Q7297378, 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, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray Dalio at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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 Ray Dalio.
Quick answers about Ray Dalio’s chart
- How old is Ray Dalio?
- Ray Dalio is 77 years old, born August 1, 1949 in Jackson Heights, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ray Dalio?
- Ray Dalio is a Leo: born August 1, 1949, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Ray Dalio's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1949 birth.
- What time was Ray Dalio 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 Ray Dalio's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 1, 1949 birth date.
- What is Ray Dalio's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 1, 1949 birth date.
- Where is Ray Dalio'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 is Ray Dalio's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
