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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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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 1880

1999

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Rhiannon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Rhiannon sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Rhiannon

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rhiannon

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Rhiannon

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rhiannon

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Rhiannon

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rhiannon

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Dreams 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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Fire Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Rhiannon Giddens was born on February 21, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Rhiannon Giddens's birth date, February 21, 1977, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.

What stands out in Rhiannon’s chart

Rhiannon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Rhiannon Giddens, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.1° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.1° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 1° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.3° orbSun in Pisces · 2°58′Moon in Aries · 14°49′14°Mercury in Aquarius · 15°51′15°Venus in Aries · 16°05′16°Mars in Aquarius · 9°27′Jupiter in Taurus · 23°26′23°Saturn in Leo · 11°55′ · retrograde11°Uranus in Scorpio · 11°46′ · retrograde11°Neptune in Sagittarius · 15°58′15°Pluto in Libra · 13°49′ · retrograde13°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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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.

  • 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

    Rhiannon’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 7.1° orb

    Rhiannon’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Rhiannon’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto1.2° to 2.8° orb

    Rhiannon’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.6° orb

    Rhiannon’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarssquareUranus1.9° to 2.7° orb

    Rhiannon’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.9° orb

    Rhiannon’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.0° to 2.9° orb

    Rhiannon’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb

    Rhiannon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

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

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.

  • ChironAries 28°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Rhiannon may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • CeresLibra 9°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Rhiannon is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ErosSagittarius 17°31′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Rhiannon attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • HygieaVirgo 17°12′ (moves 0.19° 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. Rhiannon is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • Black Moon LilithTaurus 23°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Rhiannon is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Rhiannon’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. 1. Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus7 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. Pluto7 pts

    disposes Uranus; 6 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Rhiannon is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Rhiannon’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.

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · 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, the shape it makesKite · 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, the shape it makesT-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, the shape it makesT-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 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-square Venus 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rhiannon Giddens, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Rhiannon’s cards

Every card is computed from February 21, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The High Priestess

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

yin Fire

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yang Water

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Earth

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Rhiannon Giddens, 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

Rhiannon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7320514, 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 Levi Manchak, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Rhiannon Giddens at Wikipedia, rhiannongiddens.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
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 time was Rhiannon Giddens 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 Rhiannon Giddens's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the February 21, 1977 birth date.
What is Rhiannon Giddens's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 21, 1977 birth date.
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.

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