Selena
Selena (born April 16, 1971, Lake Jackson, United States; died 1995), was an American singer. Selena is best remembered for Como la Flor, Bidi Bidi Bom Bom and No Me Queda Más. Selena's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album and Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame.
Selena’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Selena’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
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
US Social Security Administration public records
Selena’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Selena, according to the stars
Core essence
Selena leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Selena is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Selena wants to be loved
Selena wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Selena, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Selena creates
How Selena makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Selena creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Selena is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Selena 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Selena does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Selena's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Selena sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Selena's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Selena was born on April 16, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Selena's birth date, April 16, 1971, 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 Selena’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Selena's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Selena combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Selena’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Selena, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Selena’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileMars0.7° to 1.3° orb
Selena’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.1° to 1.5° orb
Selena’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
Selena’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.5° to 6.1° orb
Selena’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto5.0° orb
Selena’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars5.2° to 5.6° orb
Selena’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenusoppositionPluto5.3° to 6.5° orb
Selena’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.5° to 5.7° orb
Selena’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.3° to 13.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Selena’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 10°45′ (moves 0.06° 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: Selena may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 26°13′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Selena is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 8°02′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Selena wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 5°21′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Selena at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Selena exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.7°
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°).
Selena’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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Selena is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Selena’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Selena, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Selena
Markus Blocher was born on April 16, 1971 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Selena’s cards
Every card is computed from April 16, 1971, 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 Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Selena, 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
Selena’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23543, 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 Unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Selena at Wikipedia, q-productions.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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Selena.
Quick answers about Selena’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Selena?
- Selena was an Aries: born April 16, 1971, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
- What was Selena's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1971 birth.
- What time was Selena 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.
- How tall was Selena?
- Selena was 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Selena's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the April 16, 1971 birth date.
- What was Selena's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 16, 1971 birth date.
- Where was Selena's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Selena's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
