Salif Keita
Salif Keita (born August 25, 1949, Djoliba, Mali), aged 77, is a Malian singer-songwriter, referred to as the "Golden Voice of Africa". Best-known releases include Amen and Soro. Keita's honours include Kora Awards, Victory of the album of traditional musics or musics of the world and All African Music Legend Award.
Salif Keita’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Salif Keita’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
Salif’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Salif, according to the stars
Core essence
Salif notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Salif is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Salif is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Salif needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Salif wants to be loved
Salif wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Salif gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Salif creates
How Salif makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Salif creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Salif 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Salif is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Salif 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 Salif'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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Salif Keita in 15 seconds
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Salif Keita's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Salif Keita was born on August 25, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Salif Keita's birth date, August 25, 1949, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Salif’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Salif Keita's date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Salif Keita combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Salif’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Salif Keita, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.0° to 1.7° orb
Salif’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareUranus1.3° to 2.4° orb
Salif’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileUranus1.7° to 2.6° orb
Salif’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.7° to 3.2° orb
Salif’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
Salif’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars3.4° to 4.2° orb
Salif’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.4° to 4.5° orb
Salif’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn6.2° to 7.1° orb
Salif’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 4.5° to 19.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Salif’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 3°14′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Salif building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 28°30′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Salif caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn or Aquarius during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Salif is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLibra 4°29′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Salif is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 14°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Salif carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.1°
- Chiron square Sun 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.7°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.8°
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°).
Salif’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Salif is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Salif’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Salif Keita, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Salif
2 other people here were born on August 25, 1949, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Salif’s cards
Every card is computed from August 25, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Salif Keita, 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
Salif’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313318, 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 The Department of State, Washington, DC., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Salif Keita at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Salif Keita.
Quick answers about Salif Keita’s chart
- How old is Salif Keita?
- Salif Keita is 77 years old, born August 25, 1949 in Djoliba, Mali.
- What zodiac sign is Salif Keita?
- Salif Keita is a Virgo: born August 25, 1949, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Salif Keita's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1949 birth.
- What time was Salif Keita 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 Salif Keita's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 25, 1949 birth date.
- What is Salif Keita's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 25, 1949 birth date.
- Where is Salif Keita's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Salif Keita's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
