Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk (born October 10, 1917, Rocky Mount, United States; died 1982), was an American jazz pianist and composer. Monk's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Grammy Hall of Fame and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Thelonious Monk’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Thelonious Monk’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Thelonious in the U.S.?
#7144
US rank in 2025
~467
Americans share it since 1880
2017
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Thelonious’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Thelonious, according to the stars
Core essence
Thelonious makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Thelonious is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Thelonious needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Thelonious needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Thelonious wants to be loved
Thelonious wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Thelonious even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Thelonious creates
How Thelonious makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Thelonious creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Thelonious is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Thelonious is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Thelonious fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Thelonious's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Thelonious sits
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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 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.
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Thelonious Monk at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Thelonious Monk's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 10, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Thelonious Monk was born on October 10, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Thelonious Monk's birth date, October 10, 1917, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Thelonious’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thelonious Monk's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Thelonious Monk combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Thelonious’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Thelonious Monk, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo 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.
stableSunsextileMars0.1° to 0.5° orb
Thelonious’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 5.9° orb
Thelonious’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.2° to 1.3° orb
Thelonious’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.1° to 2.4° orb
Thelonious’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.1° orb
Thelonious’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb
Thelonious’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
Thelonious’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.0° to 5.5° orb
Thelonious’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.2° to 4.7° orb
Thelonious’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.5° orb
Thelonious’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineJupiter4.9° to 6.0° orb
Thelonious’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
Thelonious’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Thelonious’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 ℞Pisces 26°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Thelonious absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°29′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Thelonious is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 22°40′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Thelonious attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 29°21′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Thelonious is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 7°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Thelonious exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.1°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.7°
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°).
Thelonious’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. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Thelonious is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Thelonious’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Thelonious Monk, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Thelonious’s cards
Every card is computed from October 10, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Thelonious Monk, 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
Thelonious’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q109612, 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 William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thelonious Monk at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, YouTube 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Thelonious Monk.
Quick answers about Thelonious Monk’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Thelonious Monk?
- Thelonious Monk was a Libra: born October 10, 1917, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Thelonious Monk's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1917 birth.
- What time was Thelonious Monk 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 Thelonious Monk's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the October 10, 1917 birth date.
- What was Thelonious Monk's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 10, 1917 birth date.
- Where was Thelonious Monk's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Thelonious Monk's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
