The Weeknd
The Weeknd (born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye; February 16, 1990, Toronto, Canada), aged 36, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Best-known releases include After Hours, Beauty Behind the Madness and Dawn FM. Weeknd's honours include Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album, Juno Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year.
The Weeknd’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with The
The Weeknd’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
What The’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, not the name they published under.
5
Expression · versatility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
The’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets The apart
The Weeknd took the Canada's Walk of Fame in 2014, at 24.
The classrooms behind this chart: Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute and West Hill Collegiate Institute.
The working life starts in 2009, at 19.
Bebeto (1964) and Cathy Freeman (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute and West Hill Collegiate Institute
- Instruments
- keyboard instrument and voice
- Awards
- MTV Europe Music Awards (2016), American Music Awards (2015) and Canada's Walk of Fame (2014)
- Nominated for
- BET Award for Best New Artist and Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance
- Working from
- 2009
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
The, according to the stars
Core essence
The is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of The is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, The feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What The needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How The wants to be loved
The wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show The you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How The creates
How The makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. The 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: The 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 1 is the pioneer. The is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of The leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means The does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from The's birth date. Working below.
Where The sits
Six lines
The’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 The Weeknd
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toronto 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 Toronto that night
Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Toronto was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 84.3° up.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Toronto at all: they sit past the −46.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 57% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Abel Makkonen Tesfaye
- Known as
- The Weeknd
- Born in
- Toronto, Canada
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for The Weeknd: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual The's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Capricorn · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
The Weeknd's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 16, 1990, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseOpen road, open heart.
The Weeknd was born on February 16, 1990, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
The Weeknd's birth date, February 16, 1990, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in The’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in The Weeknd's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- The Weeknd combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
The’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Scorpio 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
stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.0° to 7.7° orb
The’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.2° to 0.9° orb
The’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.2° to 1.4° orb
The’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
stableVenussextilePluto4.3° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune5.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.2° to 7.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus7.3° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
The’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 11°05′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 21°41′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°56′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 14°14′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 11°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.2°
- Chiron opposition Neptune 2.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.8°
The’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects
Configurations in The’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
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More charts like The’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Ivan JandlCzech actor
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Born in Horse years
- Lynn HeinzerlingAmerican correspondent
- Benjamin Lawrence ReidAmerican professor and author
- Tony AuthAmerican cartoonist
Also born on February 16
- Bebeto1964
- Cathy Freeman1973
- Ice-T1958
- Carl Icahn1936
- Elizabeth Olsen1989
- Ava Max1994
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Joseph LelyveldAmerican journalist
- Mark StrandCanadian-American poet, essayist, translator
- Joseph Krammplaywright, actor, director
Other Aquarius Horse charts
- Amen ThompsonAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Andrei SkochRussian businessman
- Han Chang-wooZainichi Korean businessperson
- Thomas EdisonAmerican inventor and businessman
Other Tidal Scholars
- Tom PelphreyAmerican actor
- Amy RobachAmerican television journalist, correspondent and anchor
- Dylan PennAmerican model and actress
- Chrissy TeigenAmerican model
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Vladimir PrelogBosnian-Swiss chemist
- Masatoshi KoshibaJapanese physicist and astronomer
- Mairead Maguirepeace activist (born 1944)
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
The’s cards
Computed from February 16, 1990. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
The’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2121062 (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 Brian Ziff, 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 The Weeknd.
Quick answers about The Weeknd’s chart
- How old is The Weeknd?
- The Weeknd is 36 years old, born February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is The Weeknd?
- The Weeknd is an Aquarius: born February 16, 1990, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is The Weeknd's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 16, 1990 birth.
- What is The Weeknd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is The Weeknd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is The Weeknd's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is The Weeknd's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
