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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Sonny
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 1888
2025
its peak year
The SSA recorded 92 American boys named Sonny in 1930: 642nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sonny’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sonny’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 Sonny apart
The NEA Jazz Masters came in 1983, when Sonny Rollins was 53.
Sonny Rollins was taught at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics.
Sonny Rollins was 17 when the work began in 1947.
Cause of death is recorded as pulmonary fibrosis.
Wikipedia files Sonny Rollins under Bebop saxophonists, Contemporary Records artists and Impulse! Records artists.
Evan Rachel Wood (1987) and Ariarne Titmus (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics
- Instruments
- tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone
- Awards
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2009), Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2004) and NEA Jazz Masters (1983)
- Working from
- 1947
- Cause of death
- pulmonary fibrosis
- Citizenship
- Algérien
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
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. Working below.
Where Sonny sits
Six lines
Sonny’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 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 Sonny Rollins
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harlem 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 Harlem that night
Computed for 40.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Vega stood nearest the zenith over Harlem at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.9° above the horizon in Lyra.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
Harlem sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Harlem at all: they sit past the −49.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Harlem, United States
The death is recorded at Woodstock, Ulster County in 2026.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sonny Rollins: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sonny's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · 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 →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° 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
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
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.5° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.6° to 6.0° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus7.7° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°49′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 25°02′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 7°27′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°19′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 22°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.7°
Sonny’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Sonny’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.8°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Sonny’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Florence WelchBritish singer
- Playboi CartiAmerican rapper
- Tom FordAmerican fashion designer and filmmaker
Born in Horse years
- Corinna HarfouchGerman actress
- William HoldenAmerican actor
- Frank OvertonAmerican actor
Also born on September 7
- Evan Rachel Wood1987
- Ariarne Titmus2000
- Miniminter1992
- Gracie Abrams1999
- Angie Everhart1969
- Shannon Elizabeth1973
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Claude H. Van TyneAmerican historian
- Emory HollowayAmerican biographer
- David LangAmerican composer
Other Virgo Horse charts
- Kyle McCordAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Tuli TuipulotuAmerican football player (born 2002)
- David QuessenberryAmerican football offensive lineman
- Bryce HopkinsAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Other Gilded Healers
- Chad KroegerCanadian rock musician
- Angelina PivarnickAmerican television personality
- Tom ParkerBritish singer
- Keith RichardsBritish musician, guitarist of the Rolling Stones
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Thaksin ShinawatraPrime Minister of Thailand form 2001 to 2006
- Xavier NielFrench billionaire businessman (born 1967)
- Roman AvdeevRussian banker and public person
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Sonny’s cards
Computed from September 7, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sonny’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299208 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sonny Rollins.
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.
- 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 was Sonny Rollins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sonny Rollins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
