Shawn Mendes
Shawn Mendes (born August 8, 1998, Pickering, Canada), aged 28, is a Canadian singer. Best-known releases include Handwritten, Illuminate and Shawn Mendes. Mendes's honours include Juno Fan Choice, Time 100 and Canada's Walk of Fame.
Shawn Mendes’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Shawn Mendes’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Shawn in the U.S.?
#682
US rank in 2025
~339,597
Americans share it since 1880
1971
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Shawn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Shawn, according to the stars
Core essence
Shawn is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Shawn is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Shawn wants to be loved
Shawn wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Shawn gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Shawn creates
How Shawn 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. Shawn 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: Shawn is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Shawn is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Shawn 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 Shawn's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Shawn sits
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Shawn’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pickering on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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.
Shawn Mendes in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Shawn Mendes's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerCourage before caution.
Shawn Mendes was born on August 8, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Shawn Mendes's birth date, August 8, 1998, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Shawn’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shawn Mendes' date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Shawn Mendes combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Shawn’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Shawn Mendes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.8° to 2.4° orb
Shawn’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.4° to 3.7° orb
Shawn’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
Shawn’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
Shawn’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.8° to 5.5° orb
Shawn’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
Shawn’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
Shawn’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.7° orb
Shawn’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.9° to 7.0° orb
Shawn’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 1.0° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 3.0° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Shawn’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 13°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Shawn carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresGemini 3°14′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Shawn feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosScorpio 25°02′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Shawn is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 29°36′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Shawn is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Shawn that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Eros square Mercury 0.2°
- Eros trine Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.3°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.5°
- Chiron square Sun 2.8°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.9°
- Eros trine Mars 2.9°
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°).
Shawn’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. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Shawn is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Shawn’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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.8°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shawn Mendes, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Shawn
2 other people here were born on August 8, 1998, 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.
More people like Shawn
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Born in Canada
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Fellow Leo suns
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Born in Tiger years
- Arthur KennedyAmerican actor
- Paul EpworthEnglish record producer and musician
- Lily GladstoneAmerican actress (born 1986)
Also born on August 8
- Roger Federer1981
- Paul Dirac1902
- Ernest Lawrence1901
- Roger Penrose1931
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Paul WesleyAmerican actor
- ImanSomali model and actress
- Michael C. HallAmerican actor
Other Leo Tiger charts
- Ryan GarciaAmerican boxer
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Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Robert W. HolleyAmerican biochemist
- Edward Calvin KendallAmerican chemist
- Herbert A. HauptmanAmerican mathematician
- Tobias AsserDutch lawyer and legal scholar
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Frederick VroomCanadian film actor
- Cloris LeachmanAmerican actress and comedian
- Harry Connick Jr.American musician and actor (born 1967)
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Shawn’s cards
Every card is computed from August 8, 1998, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Shawn Mendes, 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
Shawn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17198340, 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 Cosmopolitan UK, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Shawn Mendes at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, 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 Shawn Mendes.
Quick answers about Shawn Mendes’s chart
- How old is Shawn Mendes?
- Shawn Mendes is 28 years old, born August 8, 1998 in Pickering, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Shawn Mendes?
- Shawn Mendes is a Leo: born August 8, 1998, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
- What is Shawn Mendes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1998 birth.
- What time was Shawn Mendes 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 Shawn Mendes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 8, 1998 birth date.
- What is Shawn Mendes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 8, 1998 birth date.
- Where is Shawn Mendes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shawn Mendes's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
