Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson (born February 19, 1940, Detroit, United States), aged 86, is an American R&B singer, songwriter and producer (born 1940). Robinson's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Legend Award.
Smokey Robinson’s zodiac sign is Aquarius or Pisces (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Smokey
How common is the name Smokey in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~131
Americans share it since 1918
1977
its peak year
Smokey is in US records from 1918, but 1940 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1977.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Smokey’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Smokey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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 Smokey apart
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came in 1987, when Smokey Robinson was 47.
Study took Smokey Robinson to Northern High School.
Smokey Robinson was 15 when the work began in 1955.
On the family side, Smokey Robinson was married Claudette Rogers Robinson and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Northern High School (Detroit, Michigan) alumni, American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters and Motown artists.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953) and Jennifer Doudna (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Northern High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987), Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1999) and Gershwin Prize (2016)
- Working from
- 1955
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Smokey, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Smokey is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Smokey needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Smokey wants to be loved
Smokey wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Smokey creates
How Smokey makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Smokey creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Smokey 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Smokey is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Smokey is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Smokey's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Smokey Robinson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 5.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 85% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Detroit, United States
- Lives in
- Pittsburgh
Wikidata records Pittsburgh as Smokey Robinson's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Smokey Robinson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Smokey's chart is
Chart pattern score
19 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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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Aquarius or Pisces Sun
Smokey Robinson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Smokey Robinson was born on February 19, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Smokey Robinson's birth date, February 19, 1940, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Smokey’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Smokey Robinson's date-only chart is Mars square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
Smokey’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Cancer 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
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Smokey’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 1.3° orb
Smokey’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMarssquarePluto0.3° to 0.9° orb
Smokey’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileMars1.7° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.9° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.6° to 5.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.4° to 13.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Smokey’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 14°31′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 16°05′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 12°12′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 24°11′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.2°
- Eros square Mercury 2.3°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.9°
Smokey’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Smokey’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 biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.1°
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Smokey’s cards
Computed from February 19, 1940. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Smokey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310332 (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 Ewingmason, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 Smokey Robinson.
Quick answers about Smokey Robinson’s chart
- How old is Smokey Robinson?
- Smokey Robinson is 86 years old, born February 19, 1940 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Smokey Robinson?
- Smokey Robinson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Smokey Robinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 19, 1940 birth.
- What is Smokey Robinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Smokey Robinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Smokey Robinson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Smokey Robinson's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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