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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Shawn
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 1931
1971
its peak year
Shawn ranked 113th among boys and 2,237th among girls in 1998, the year of this birth, with 3,257 American boys and 64 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Shawn’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Shawn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1998, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Shawn apart
Shawn Mendes took the Canada's Walk of Fame in 2015, at 17.
The classrooms behind this chart: Pine Ridge Secondary School.
The working life starts in 2013, at 15.
Wikipedia's editors put Shawn Mendes under Canadian male pianists, Guitarists from Toronto and Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year winners.
The same date carries Ryan Garcia and Xavier McKinney. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Pine Ridge Secondary School
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Time 100 (2018), Canada's Walk of Fame (2015) and Juno Fan Choice (2018)
- Working from
- 2013
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Languages
- English and Canadian English
- Wikipedia editions
- 72
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. Working below.
Where Shawn sits
Six lines
Shawn’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 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.
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 Shawn Mendes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pickering 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 Pickering that night
Computed for 43.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pickering was Rastaban, in Draco, 79.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Shawn's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Five planets retrograde · 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.
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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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces 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
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
stableMarstrineJupiter4.8° to 5.5° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.9° to 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 13°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 3°14′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 25°02′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 29°36′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Shawn’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Shawn’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.
- 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°
Born the same day as Shawn
2 other people here were born on August 8, 1998, 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 Pickering, at 43.9°N, nothing below −46.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Shawn
Other composers
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- Jacob Collier1994
- Holly Humberstone1999
- Jungkook1997
- Joey Alexander2003
- J-Hope1994
Born in Canada
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- xQcCanadian Twitch streamer
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- Michael Hoechtfootball player (born 1997)
- Josh Palmercanadian-born American football wide receiver
- Alyssa LynchCanadian actress
More charts like Shawn’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Aidan HutchinsonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Hunter LongAmerican football tight end
- Drake LondonAmerican football player (born 2001)
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
- Alysa Liu2005
- Katie Leung1987
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Paul WesleyAmerican actor
- ImanSomali model and actress
- Michael C. HallAmerican actor
Other Leo Tiger charts
- Ryan GarciaAmerican boxer
- Min Woo LeeAustralian golfer
- Rico RodriguezAmerican actor
- Ella GuevaraFilipino actress
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
Computed from August 8, 1998. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Shawn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17198340 (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 Cosmopolitan UK, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Shawn Mendes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Shawn Mendes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
