Shakira
Shakira (born February 2, 1977, Barranquilla, Colombia), aged 49, is a Colombian singer-songwriter. Best-known releases include Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, Laundry Service and She Wolf. Shakira's honours include Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Song, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Crystal Award.
Shakira’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Shakira
Shakira’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Shakira in the U.S.?
#8792
US rank in 2025
~8,276
Americans share it since 1970
2002
its peak year
The SSA recorded 120 American girls named Shakira in 1977: 1,086th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
Shakira’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, 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 Shakira apart
The Billboard Latin Music Awards came in 1997, when Shakira was 20.
Shakira was 13 when the work began in 1990.
Shakira was born to William Mebarak Chadid and raised 2 children.
Ayn Rand (1905) and Gerard Piqué (1987) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- percussion instrument, harmonica, guitar and voice
- Awards
- MTV Video Music Awards (2000), Billboard Latin Music Awards (1997) and Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica (2002)
- Working from
- 1990
- Citizenship
- Spain and Colombia
- Languages
- French, Italian and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 235
What the chart says
Shakira, according to the stars
Core essence
Shakira is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Shakira is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Shakira creates
How Shakira makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Shakira creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Shakira is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Shakira is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Shakira leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Shakira 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 Shakira's birth date. Working below.
Where Shakira sits
Six lines
Shakira’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Shakira
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Barranquilla 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 Barranquilla that night
Computed for 10.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Barranquilla was Betelgeuse, in Orion, 86.4° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
Barranquilla sits at 11.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
How unusual Shakira's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Shakira's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 2, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Shakira was born on February 2, 1977, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Shakira's birth date, February 2, 1977, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Shakira’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shakira's date-only chart is Sun opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Shakira combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Shakira’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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
stableSunoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Shakira’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrinePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Shakira’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 7.4° orb
Shakira’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.7° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsquareUranus1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.6° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Shakira’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 27°38′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 10°34′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 5°21′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 20°04′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 21°09′ (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 conjunction Jupiter 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.8°
- Chiron square Mars 2.9°
Shakira’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Shakira’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusAn 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 quintile Venus 0.8°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on February 2
- Ayn Rand1905
- Gerard Piqué1987
- Farrah Fawcett1947
- Gemma Arterton1986
- John Cornyn1952
- Christie Brinkley1954
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Martin Luther King Jr.American Baptist minister and civil rights leader
- Ernest HemingwayAmerican author and journalist
- Margaret ThatcherBritish stateswoman and prime minister
Other Aquarius Dragon charts
- David PeoplesAmerican screenwriter
- Gary K. WolfAmerican author
- Wang Hui-lingTaiwanese screenwriter
- Plácido DomingoSpanish tenor and conductor (born 1941)
Other Gilded Scholars
- Pyotr KapitsaSoviet physicist
- Otto DielsGerman chemist
- Peter MedawarEnglish-brazilian biologist
- Brian KobilkaAmerican physiologist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Margaret CoitAmerican historian
- Mary JordanAmerican journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Richard RodgersAmerican composer of songs and Broadway musicals
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Shakira’s cards
Computed from February 2, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Shakira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q34424 (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 Junta de Andalucía, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Shakira at Wikipedia, shakira.com, 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 Shakira.
Quick answers about Shakira’s chart
- How old is Shakira?
- Shakira is 49 years old, born February 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia.
- What zodiac sign is Shakira?
- Shakira is an Aquarius: born February 2, 1977, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Shakira's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 2, 1977 birth.
- How tall is Shakira?
- Shakira is 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Shakira's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Shakira's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Shakira's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shakira's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
