Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins (born September 7, 1930, Harlem, United States; died 2026), was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Rollins's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors and NEA Jazz Masters.
Sonny Rollins’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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Sonny Rollins’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Sonny in the U.S.?
#298
US rank in 2025
~23,356
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Sonny’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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What the chart says
Sonny, according to the stars
Core essence
Sonny notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Sonny is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Sonny is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Sonny needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Sonny creates
How Sonny makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Sonny 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: Sonny is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Sonny 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Sonny 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 Sonny's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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.
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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Sonny Rollins's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 7, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Sonny Rollins was born on September 7, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Sonny Rollins's birth date, September 7, 1930, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Sonny’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sonny Rollins' date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sonny Rollins combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Sonny’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Sonny Rollins, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° 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.
stableMercurysquareMars0.2° to 0.7° orb
Sonny’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.3° to 1.1° orb
Sonny’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.4° to 0.6° orb
Sonny’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.7° to 1.4° orb
Sonny’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.4° to 1.5° orb
Sonny’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.5° orb
Sonny’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb
Sonny’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.8° to 3.7° orb
Sonny’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.4° to 5.6° orb
Sonny’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenustrineMars5.6° to 6.0° orb
Sonny’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableUranussquarePluto6.0° orb
Sonny’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus7.7° to 7.9° orb
Sonny’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Sonny’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°49′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Sonny building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 25°02′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Sonny is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosGemini 7°27′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Sonny is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°19′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Sonny needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 22°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Sonny at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 trine Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.7°
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°).
Sonny’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Sonny is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Sonny’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.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sonny Rollins, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Sonny’s cards
Every card is computed from September 7, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Sonny Rollins, 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
Sonny’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299208, 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 Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sonny Rollins at Wikipedia, sonnyrollins.com, IMDb, X 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.
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Quick answers about Sonny Rollins’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sonny Rollins?
- Sonny Rollins was a Virgo: born September 7, 1930, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- What was Sonny Rollins's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 7, 1930 birth.
- What time was Sonny Rollins 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 was Sonny Rollins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the September 7, 1930 birth date.
- What was Sonny Rollins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 7, 1930 birth date.
- Where was Sonny Rollins's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sonny Rollins's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
