Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977, Greensboro, United States), aged 49, is an American musician (born 1977). Giddens's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, MacArthur Fellows Program and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rhiannon Giddens’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Rhiannon
Rhiannon Giddens’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rhiannon in the U.S.?
#1119
US rank in 2025
~15,544
Americans share it since 1974
1999
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1977, Rhiannon came 418th, carried by 491 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rhiannon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rhiannon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, 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 Rhiannon apart
Rhiannon Giddens took the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2017, at 40.
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics shaped the training.
The working life starts in 2005, at 28.
On the family side, Rhiannon Giddens was married Michael Laffan.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Rhiannon Giddens: African-American banjoists, Musicians from Greensboro, North Carolina and American banjoists.
W. H. Auden (1907) and Alan Rickman (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
- Instruments
- banjo and voice
- Awards
- MacArthur Fellows Program (2017), Pulitzer Prize for Music (2023) and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022)
- Nominated for
- Americana Award for Artist of the Year
- Working from
- 2005
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Rhiannon, according to the stars
Core essence
Rhiannon feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Rhiannon is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Rhiannon runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Rhiannon needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Rhiannon wants to be loved
Rhiannon wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Rhiannon creates
How Rhiannon 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. Rhiannon 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: Rhiannon is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Rhiannon is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
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. Rhiannon 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 Rhiannon's birth date. Working below.
Where Rhiannon sits
Six lines
Rhiannon’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Rhiannon Giddens
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Greensboro 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 Greensboro that night
Computed for 36.07°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Greensboro at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.8° above the horizon in Gemini.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 36.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −53.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Greensboro on any night.
Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon up and 15% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Rhiannon's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · Grand trine · T-square onto Uranus
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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Rhiannon Giddens's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 21, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Rhiannon Giddens was born on February 21, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Rhiannon Giddens's birth date, February 21, 1977, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Rhiannon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rhiannon Giddens' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rhiannon Giddens combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Rhiannon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Aries 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
stableMoonoppositionPluto0.0° to 7.1° orb
Rhiannon’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Rhiannon’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Rhiannon’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.4° orb
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 7.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.1° to 0.2° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto1.2° to 2.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssquareUranus1.9° to 2.7° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Rhiannon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 28°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 9°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 17°31′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 17°12′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 23°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres trine Mars 0.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.2°
- Eros trine Venus 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.1°
Rhiannon’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Uranus; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Rhiannon’s chart
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, MercuryA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
More people like Rhiannon
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Born in United States
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on February 21
- W. H. Auden1907
- Alan Rickman1946
- Elliot Page1987
- Nina Simone1933
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- Sophie Turner1996
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- Philip AnschutzAmerican billionaire businessman
- Cyrus S. PoonawallaIndian businessman
Other Pisces Snake charts
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Other Steadfast Seekers
- Tad MoselAmerican playwright
- Felix MorleyAmerican journalist and college administrator
- Thomas PowersAmerican reporter
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Famous people with Life Path 11
- Lionel BarrymoreAmerican actor, director and screenwriter
- George C. ScottAmerican actor, film director and producer
- Maribel VerdúSpanish actress (born 1970)
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Rhiannon’s cards
Computed from February 21, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rhiannon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7320514 (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 Levi Manchak, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rhiannon Giddens.
Quick answers about Rhiannon Giddens’s chart
- How old is Rhiannon Giddens?
- Rhiannon Giddens is 49 years old, born February 21, 1977 in Greensboro, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rhiannon Giddens?
- Rhiannon Giddens is a Pisces: born February 21, 1977, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Rhiannon Giddens's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 21, 1977 birth.
- What is Rhiannon Giddens's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rhiannon Giddens's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rhiannon Giddens's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rhiannon Giddens's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
