Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt (born August 21, 1986, Sherwood Content, Jamaica), aged 40, is a Jamaican sprinter. Bolt has played for Central Coast Mariners FC and Racers Track Club. Bolt's honours include Member of the Order of Jamaica, Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year and Commander of the Order of Distinction.
Usain Bolt’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Usain
Usain Bolt’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What Usain’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on U (3) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Usain’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1986, 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 Usain apart
Robert Lewandowski (1988) and Sergey Brin (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Sport
- athletics
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Languages
- English and Jamaican Patois
What the chart says
Usain, according to the stars
Core essence
Usain is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Usain is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Usain 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 Usain 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 Usain wants to be loved
Usain wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Usain gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Usain creates
How Usain makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Usain creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Usain is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Usain is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Usain 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 Usain's birth date. Working below.
Where Usain sits
Six lines
Usain’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Usain Bolt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sherwood Content 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 Sherwood Content that night
Computed for 18.39°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Albireo stood nearest the zenith over Sherwood Content at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.7° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 80 catalog stars were up in all.
From 18.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon up and 94% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sherwood Content, Jamaica
- Lives in
- Kingston
Wikidata records Kingston as Usain Bolt's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Usain Bolt: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Usain's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Usain Bolt's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Usain Bolt was born on August 21, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Usain Bolt's birth date, August 21, 1986, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Usain’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Usain Bolt's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Usain Bolt combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Usain’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° 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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Usain’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Usain’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareMars1.8° to 2.7° orb
Usain’s affections grind against their drive.
stableJupitersquareUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.6° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.4° to 5.3° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 3.4° to 16.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 3.5° to 16.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Usain’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 20°31′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 8°06′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 8°24′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 23°55′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.1°
Usain’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Usain’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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.3°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 1.9°
More people like Usain
Other athletics competitors
- Letsile Tebogo2003
- Keely Hodgkinson2002
- Julien Alfred2001
- Beatrice Chebet2000
- Selemon Barega2000
- Noah Igbinoghene1999
Born in Jamaica
- Nick RichardsJamaican basketball player (born 1997)
- Bob MarleyJamaican reggae musician
- Matt PeartJamaican-born American football offensive tackle
- Michel duCilleAmerican photojournalist
- Danielle HunterJamaican-born American football player (born 1994)
- Ziggy MarleyJamaican reggae musician
More charts like Usain’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Caroline ShawAmerican composer, violinist, and singer
- T. J. StilesAmerican biographer and historian
- Westbrook PeglerAmerican investigative journalist
Born in Tiger years
- David AttenboroughBritish broadcaster and naturalist
- Joaquin PhoenixAmerican actor
- Steve IrwinAustralian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality
Also born on August 21
- Robert Lewandowski1988
- Sergey Brin1973
- Kenny Rogers1938
- Hayden Panettiere1989
- Kim Cattrall1956
- Kacey Musgraves1988
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Shawn AshmoreCanadian actor
- Tom ArnoldAmerican stand-up comedian and actor (born 1959)
- Patrick J. AdamsCanadian actor
Other Leo Tiger charts
- Travis HomerAmerican football player
- Andrew OgletreeAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Xavier McKinneyAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Jake BoboAmerican football player
Other Radiant Scholars
- Luigi Lo CascioItalian actor
- Hugh Keays-ByrneBritish-Australian actor
- László NemesHungarian filmmaker
- Jean SimmonsBritish-American actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Geoffrey A. LandisAmerican aerospace engineer and science fiction author
- James V. HartAmerican screenwriter (1947- )
- Alfred BesterAmerican author
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Usain’s cards
Computed from August 21, 1986. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Usain’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1189 (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 Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0 br, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Usain Bolt at Wikipedia, usainbolt.com, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Usain Bolt.
Quick answers about Usain Bolt’s chart
- How old is Usain Bolt?
- Usain Bolt is 40 years old, born August 21, 1986 in Sherwood Content, Jamaica.
- What zodiac sign is Usain Bolt?
- Usain Bolt is a Leo: born August 21, 1986, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Usain Bolt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1986 birth.
- How tall is Usain Bolt?
- Usain Bolt is 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Usain Bolt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Usain Bolt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Usain Bolt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Usain Bolt's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
