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Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez (born July 22, 1992, Grand Prairie, United States), aged 34, is an American singer and actress. Gomez is best known for Wizards of Waverly Place, Barney & Friends and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie. Gomez's honours include Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Leading Ladies of Entertainment and 2012 Teen Choice Awards.

Selena Gomez’s zodiac sign is Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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How common is the name Selena in the U.S.?

#268

US rank in 2025

~59,944

Americans share it since 1880

1995

its peak year

The SSA recorded 375 American girls named Selena in 1992: 606th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Selena’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

22

Soul Urge · legacy

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Selena’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

—

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Soft pink

The record

What sets Selena apart

Willem Dafoe (1955) and John Leguizamo (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Selena, according to the stars

How Selena wants to be loved

Selena wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Selena openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Selena creates

How Selena 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. Selena 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: Selena is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Selena is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Selena is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Selena's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Selena Gomez

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Grand Prairie 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 Grand Prairie that night

Computed for 32.72°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Grand Prairie at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 6.0° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 77 catalog stars were up in all.

Grand Prairie sits at 32.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −57.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at last quarter, 49% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Selena's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Pluto · Five planets retrograde

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.

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Cancer or Leo Sun

Selena Gomez was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Water Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Selena Gomez was born on July 22, 1992, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Selena Gomez's birth date, July 22, 1992, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Selena’s chart

Selena’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.9° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.8° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.1° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 2.5° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 3° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.8° orbSun in Leo · 0°07′☉0°Moon in Aries · 27°35′☽27°Mercury in Leo · 17°11′ · retrograde☿℞17°Venus in Leo · 10°51′♀10°Mars in Taurus · 27°12′♂27°Jupiter in Virgo · 13°23′♃13°Saturn in Aquarius · 16°17′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Capricorn · 15°27′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Capricorn · 17°13′ · retrograde♆℞17°Pluto in Scorpio · 20°10′ · retrograde♇℞20°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Selena’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune1.8° orb

    Selena’s need for freedom and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.9° to 2.2° orb

    Selena’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune3.7° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto4.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.8° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.6° to 7.0° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto6.7° to 7.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Selena’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 11°37′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 3°54′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 11°45′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 4°53′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°28′ (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 square Pluto 0.3°
  • Chiron conjunction Venus 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 1.6°

Selena’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Selena’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Mercury, Saturn, PlutoAn 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.

  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.7°

Selena’s family here

One relative of Selena Gomez also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Fellow Yin Earth day masters

What a Day Master is →

Famous people with Life Path 5

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan

Selena’s cards

Computed from July 22, 1992. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Selena’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83287 (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 Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Selena Gomez at Wikipedia, 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 Selena Gomez.

Quick answers about Selena Gomez’s chart

How old is Selena Gomez?
Selena Gomez is 34 years old, born July 22, 1992 in Grand Prairie, United States.
What zodiac sign is Selena Gomez?
Selena Gomez was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What is Selena Gomez's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1992 birth.
What is Selena Gomez's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Selena Gomez's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Selena Gomez's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Selena Gomez's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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