Raye
Raye (born Rachel Agatha Keen; October 24, 1997, Tooting, United Kingdom), aged 29, is a British singer-songwriter. Best-known releases include This Music May Contain Hope. and My 21st Century Blues. Raye's honours include BBC 100 Women.
Raye’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Raye
Raye’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Raye in the U.S.?
#6769
US rank in 2025
~2,603
Americans share it since 1889
1956
its peak year
The SSA recorded 9 American girls named Raye in 1997: 9,635th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Raye’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Rachel Agatha Keen, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Raye’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1997, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Raye apart
The BBC 100 Women came in 2024, when Raye was 27.
Raye was taught at Woodcote High School and BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology.
Raye was 17 when the work began in 2014.
Raye was born to Paul Keen.
Wikipedia files Raye under British people of Swiss descent, Singers from the London Borough of Wandsworth and People educated at Woodcote High School.
Edson Álvarez shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Woodcote High School and BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- BBC 100 Women (2024)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
- Working from
- 2014
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Raye, according to the stars
Core essence
Raye does not do surface. The core of Raye is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Raye is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Raye needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Raye needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Raye wants to be loved
Raye wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Raye and watch them fall for you again.
How Raye creates
How Raye makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Raye creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Raye 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Raye is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Raye has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Raye's birth date. Working below.
Where Raye sits
Six lines
Raye’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Raye
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tooting 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 Tooting that night
Computed for 51.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alderamin stood nearest the zenith over Tooting at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.7° above the horizon in Cepheus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
From 51.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tooting on any night.
The Moon, 35% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Rachel Agatha Keen
- Known as
- Raye
- Born in
- Tooting, United Kingdom
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Raye: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Raye's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart
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.
Score your own chart →Raye in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Raye's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 24, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Ox
Fire OxStubborn, and usually right.
Raye was born on October 24, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Raye's birth date, October 24, 1997, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Raye’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Raye's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Raye combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Raye’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Leo 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
stableMoontrineSaturn0.1° to 6.8° orb
Raye’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.5° to 0.8° orb
Raye’s affections and drive act as one.
stableUranussextilePluto0.6° orb
Raye’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.2° to 2.4° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus2.5° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.7° to 5.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.7° to 7.3° orb
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune7.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Raye’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 6°40′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 29°48′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 12°45′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 25°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.3°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.4°
- Chiron square Uranus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.9°
Raye’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Raye’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.
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
Born the same day as Raye
Edson Álvarez was born on October 24, 1997 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Tooting, at 51.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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More charts like Raye’s
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- David JuliusAmerican physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
- Gerhart HauptmannGerman dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912
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Born in Ox years
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- Jesse OwensAmerican track and field athlete
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- Dan SimmonsAmerican novelist
- Geoffrey A. LandisAmerican aerospace engineer and science fiction author
Other Scorpio Ox charts
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Other Steadfast Guardians
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- Carl Noracauthor
- Charles Ducalpoet and author from Belgium
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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Raye’s cards
Computed from October 24, 1997. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Raye’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28071144 (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 Genesis7777777, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Raye at Wikipedia, rayeofficial.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Raye.
Quick answers about Raye’s chart
- How old is Raye?
- Raye is 29 years old, born October 24, 1997 in Tooting, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Raye?
- Raye is a Scorpio: born October 24, 1997, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Raye's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 24, 1997 birth.
- What is Raye's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Raye's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Raye's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Raye's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
