RuPaul
RuPaul (born November 17, 1960, San Diego, United States, 18:52), aged 65, is an American drag performer, actor, and musician. Notable films include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, EDtv and But I'm a Cheerleader. RuPaul's honours include Emmy Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program.
RuPaul’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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RuPaul’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
RuPaul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
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What the chart says
RuPaul, according to the stars
Core essence
RuPaul does not do surface. The core of RuPaul 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 RuPaul is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, RuPaul feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What RuPaul needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How RuPaul wants to be loved
RuPaul 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 RuPaul you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How RuPaul creates
How RuPaul 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. RuPaul 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: RuPaul is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. RuPaul is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means RuPaul does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from RuPaul's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
RuPaul's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
RuPaul was born on November 17, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
RuPaul's birth date, November 17, 1960, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in RuPaul’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in RuPaul's timed chart: Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in RuPaul's timed chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Moon, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- RuPaul combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
RuPaul’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsquareUranusseparating · 0.0° orb
RuPaul’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
MercurysextilePlutoseparating · 0.2° orb
RuPaul’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsextileSaturnapplying · 0.8° orb
RuPaul’s feelings open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
VenusconjunctionJupiterapplying · 1.0° orb
RuPaul’s affections and growth act as one.
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.3° orb
RuPaul’s mind and imagination act as one.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.5° orb
RuPaul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsoppositionSaturnapplying · 3.7° orb
RuPaul’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
JupitertrinePlutoapplying · 3.7° orb
RuPaul’s growth flows straight into their depths.
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 3.8° orb
RuPaul’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoontrineMarsapplying · 4.5° orb
RuPaul’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 4.6° orb
RuPaul’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenustrinePlutoapplying · 4.7° orb
RuPaul’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurysextileVenusapplying · 4.8° orb
RuPaul’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonconjunctionMercuryseparating · 5.9° orb
RuPaul’s feelings and mind act as one.
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 6.9° orb
RuPaul’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
RuPaul’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°28′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has RuPaul making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 20°10′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. RuPaul is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosLeo 29°38′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has RuPaul loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLibra 26°24′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. RuPaul is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 21°35′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has RuPaul guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros sextile Ascendant 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Chiron square Sun 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron trine Ascendant 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Ascendant 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 3.0°
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°).
RuPaul’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♇ Pluto16 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: RuPaul is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 RuPaul’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Moon, Mercury, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.4°
RuPaul’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 6 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 6 | Mars | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 6 | Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 6 | Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 4 | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 8 | Venus, Jupiter, Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 3 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 6 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 2 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
RuPaul’s cards
Every card is computed from November 17, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
RuPaul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q705715, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 DVSROSS, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 RuPaul’s chart
- How old is RuPaul?
- RuPaul is 65 years old, born November 17, 1960 in San Diego, United States.
- What zodiac sign is RuPaul?
- RuPaul is a Scorpio: born November 17, 1960, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is RuPaul's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1960 birth.
- What time was RuPaul born?
- 18:52 local time in San Diego, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is RuPaul's rising sign?
- Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 18:52 birth time in San Diego, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is RuPaul?
- RuPaul is 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is RuPaul's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 17, 1960 birth date.
- What is RuPaul's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 17, 1960 birth time.
- Where is RuPaul's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 21°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is RuPaul's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (16 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
