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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Thelonious
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 1960
2017
its peak year
Thelonious is in US records from 1960, but 1917 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2017.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thelonious’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Thelonious’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Thelonious apart
Gavin Newsom (1967) and Marina Diamandis (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Thelonious sits
Six lines
Thelonious’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 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 Thelonious Monk
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rocky Mount 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 Rocky Mount that night
Computed for 35.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Rocky Mount at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 14.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 36.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 22% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Thelonious's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth planets · 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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo 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
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
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableSuntrineUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.0° to 5.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.2° to 4.7° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.5° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.9° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 26°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°29′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 22°40′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 29°21′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 7°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Thelonious’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Thelonious’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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
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Fellow Libra suns
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on October 10
- Gavin Newsom1967
- Marina Diamandis1985
- Brett Favre1969
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Daniel FaaleleAustralian gridiron football player (born 1999)
- Marlowe WaxAmerican football linebacker, Syracuse (2020–2024)
- Chidobe AwuzieAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Libra Snake charts
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- Anthony JoshuaBritish boxer
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Maribel VerdúSpanish actress (born 1970)
- Marisa BerensonAmerican actress and model (b. 1947)
- Linda BlairAmerican actress
- Paul DanoAmerican actor (born 1984)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Matthew MorrisonAmerican actor, dancer, and singer
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Thelonious’s cards
Computed from October 10, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thelonious’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q109612 (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 William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, 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 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.
- 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 was Thelonious Monk's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Thelonious Monk's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
