Ray J
Ray J (born William Ray Norwood; January 17, 1981, McComb, United States), aged 45, is an American R&B singer and actor.
Ray J’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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Ray J’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ray is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Ray wants to be loved
Ray wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ray you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Ray creates
How Ray 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. Ray 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: Ray is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ray is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Ray leads without needing to do it alone.
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. Ray 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 Ray's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ray sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above McComb on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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Ray J in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Ray J's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Ray J was born on January 17, 1981, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Ray J's birth date, January 17, 1981, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Ray’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ray J's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ray J combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Ray’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ray J, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.4° to 2.0° orb
Ray’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.5° orb
Ray’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
Ray’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.9° to 2.6° orb
Ray’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
Ray’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.1° to 2.3° orb
Ray’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.6° to 2.8° orb
Ray’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsquarePluto2.7° to 3.7° orb
Ray’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.3° to 4.1° orb
Ray’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.8° to 4.6° orb
Ray’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.9° orb
Ray’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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 13°25′
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.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 18°59′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Ray is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°31′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Ray is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Ray is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°08′ (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. Ray 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 square Mars 0.6°
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. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Ray is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ray J, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Ray’s family here
One relative of Ray J also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Ray’s cards
Every card is computed from January 17, 1981, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ray J, 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 Q542267, 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 Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ray J at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Ray J.
Quick answers about Ray J’s chart
- How old is Ray J?
- Ray J is 45 years old, born January 17, 1981 in McComb, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ray J?
- Ray J is a Capricorn: born January 17, 1981, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey.
- What is Ray J's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1981 birth.
- What time was Ray J 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 J's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 17, 1981 birth date.
- What is Ray J's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 17, 1981 birth date.
- Where is Ray J's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ray J's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
