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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Selena
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
Selena ranked 465th in 1971, the year of this birth, with 435 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
Selena’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Selena apart
The shelf Selena is read from: No Me Queda Más, Bidi Bidi Bom Bom and Amor Prohibido.
American School of Correspondence and California Miramar University shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1981, at 10.
Cause of death is recorded as gunshot wound; the grave is at Seaside Memorial Park.
On the family side, Selena was born to Abraham Quintanilla and married Chris Pérez.
Wikipedia's editors put Selena under American mariachi musicians and Actresses from Houston.
The same date carries Markus Blocher. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- No Me Queda Más, Bidi Bidi Bom Bom and Amor Prohibido
- Educated at
- American School of Correspondence and California Miramar University
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2021), Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album (1994) and Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame (1995)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album
- Working from
- 1981
- Cause of death
- gunshot wound
- Buried at
- Seaside Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Spanish, American English and Mexican Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 124
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. Working below.
Where Selena sits
Six lines
Selena’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Selena
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lake Jackson 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 Lake Jackson that night
Computed for 29.04°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algieba stood nearest the zenith over Lake Jackson at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.9° above the horizon in Leo.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 29.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Acrux cannot be seen from Lake Jackson at all: they sit past the −61.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 65% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Lake Jackson, United States
The death is recorded at Corpus Christi, Nueces County in 1995.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Selena: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Selena's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.5° to 6.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto5.0° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.2° to 5.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.5° to 5.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 10°45′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 26°13′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 8°02′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 5°21′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Selena’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Selena’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.5°
Born the same day as Selena
Markus Blocher was born on April 16, 1971 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Lake Jackson, at 29.0°N, nothing below −61.0° declination ever rises, which keeps Acrux permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Selena
Other spokespeople
- Martina Gedeck1961
- Sean Spicer1971
- Jennifer Hudson1981
- Nigel Farage1964
- Lauren Bacall1924
- Mario Lopez1973
Born in United States
- Sofia CoppolaAmerican filmmaker (born 1971)
- Sara BlakelyAmerican businesswoman
- Taylor ArmstrongAmerican businesswoman, philanthropist and television personality (born 1971)
- Ellen BarryAmerican journalist
- Lisa LopesAmerican singer and rapper
- Sean AstinAmerican actor (born 1971)
More charts like Selena’s
Fellow Aries suns
- George KarlaftisGreek-born American football player (born 2001)
- Damarri Mathisfootball player (born 1999)
- Zonovan KnightAmerican football player (born 2001)
Born in Pig years
- William GoldingBritish novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
- Mila KunisAmerican actress
- Elton JohnBritish singer, songwriter and musician
Also born on April 16
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
- Sadie Sink2002
- Luol Deng1985
- Alek Wek1977
- Blake Fielder-Civil1982
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Ethel Romig FullerAmerican poet
- Matthew VaughnBritish film producer, director and screenwriter
- William GibsonAmerican-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
Other Aries Pig charts
- Gloria SwansonAmerican actress
- Murray HamiltonAmerican actor
- Matthew ModineAmerican actor and filmmaker (born 1959)
- John RatzenbergerAmerican actor (born 1947)
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Fredrik André BjørkanNorwegian footballer (born 1998)
- Auston TrustyAmerican soccer player
- Obed VargasMexican soccer player
- Youssef BelammariMoroccan footballer
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Justin ChampagnieAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Josh GreenAustralian basketball player (born 2000)
- Alyssa LynchCanadian actress
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Selena’s cards
Computed from April 16, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Selena’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23543 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- What was Selena's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1971 birth.
- 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.
- What was Selena's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
