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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Ray
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
In 1981, 855 American boys and 10 girls were registered Ray — 256th among boys and 6,683rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ray’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name William Ray Norwood, not the name they published under.
2
Expression · connecting people
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ray’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Ray apart
Muhammad Ali (1942) and Michelle Obama (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Ray sits
Six lines
Ray’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Ray J
Three stars chosen from the real sky above McComb 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 McComb that night
Computed for 31.24°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at McComb was Elnath, in Taurus, 81.5° up.
Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
McComb sits at 31.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −58.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- William Ray Norwood
- Known as
- Ray J
- Born in
- McComb, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ray J: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ray's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
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
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
stableSunsextileUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn1.1° to 2.3° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter1.6° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.3° to 4.1° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.8° to 4.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 18°59′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°31′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 0.6°
Ray’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ray’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.3°
Ray’s family here
One relative of Ray J also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Ray
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Born in United States
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More charts like Ray’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Joshua BassettAmerican actor and singer-songwriter
- Timothée ChalametFrench-American actor
- Nina DobrevBulgarian-Canadian actress
Born in Monkey years
- Chris PineAmerican actor
- Johnny CashAmerican country singer
- Rosalind FranklinBritish chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
Also born on January 17
- Muhammad Ali1942
- Michelle Obama1964
- Jim Carrey1962
- Betty White1922
- Eartha Kitt1927
- Zooey Deschanel1980
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Margaret ClappAmerican educator
- Margaret WilsonAmerican novelist
- Megan MarshallAmerican writer, scholar
Other Capricorn Monkey charts
- Dave GrohlAmerican rock musician
- Chris HughesEnglish model, television personality and former footballer
- Jared KushnerAmerican businessman and real estate investor (born 1981)
- Rod StewartEnglish singer and songwriter (born 1945)
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Andrey ZvyagintsevRussian film director, screenwriter and actor (born 1964)
- Kim HunterAmerican actress
- Lynn RedgraveBritish actress
- Anna BurnsNorthern Irish writer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jake ElliottAmerican football kicker
- Byron MurphyAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Kelee RingoAmerican football player (born 2002)
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Ray’s cards
Computed from January 17, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ray’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q542267 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Ray J's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ray J's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
