Usher
Usher (born October 14, 1978, Dallas, United States), aged 48, is an American R&B singer. Best-known releases include Confessions, Usher and Raymond v. Raymond. Usher's honours include Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance and Amadeus Austrian Music Awards.
Usher’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Usher
Usher’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Usher in the U.S.?
#1974
US rank in 2025
~1,306
Americans share it since 1914
2025
its peak year
In 1978, 6 American boys were registered Usher — 5,740th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
Usher’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, 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 Usher apart
The Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance came in 2005, when Usher was 27.
Study took Usher to North Springs High School.
Usher was 15 when the work began in 1993.
The family line: married Jennifer Raymond and Tameka Foster and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read African-American sports executives and administrators and American art collectors.
Ralph Lauren (1939) and Arca (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- North Springs High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album (2011), Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance (2005) and NRJ Music Award for International Male Artist of the Year (2005)
- Working from
- 1993
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 81
What the chart says
Usher, according to the stars
Core essence
Usher makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Usher 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.
How Usher wants to be loved
Usher 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 Usher even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Usher creates
How Usher makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Usher creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Usher 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Usher is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Usher runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Usher's birth date. Working below.
Where Usher sits
Six lines
Usher’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 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 Usher
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dallas 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 Dallas that night
Computed for 32.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Dallas at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 4.4° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
Dallas sits at 32.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Dallas at all: they sit past the −57.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 26° below the horizon, Moon up and 98% lit at full moon.
How unusual Usher's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Usher's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 14, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Usher was born on October 14, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Usher's birth date, October 14, 1978, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Usher’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Usher's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Usher combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Usher’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Pisces or Aries 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Usher’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.5° to 2.2° orb
Usher’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
Usher’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.8° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.8° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus7.4° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 1.6° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.4° to 5.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Usher’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 8°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 15°29′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 11°23′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°43′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.5°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.6°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.9°
Usher’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Usher’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Mercury, Venus, Mars, UranusThree 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.
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
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- Felix BlochSwiss physicist
- Ernest WaltonIrish physicist and Nobel laureate
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Also born on October 14
- Ralph Lauren1939
- Arca1989
- Stacy Keibler1979
- Charlie Kirk1993
- Natalie Maines1974
- Lourdes Leon1996
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Michael J. SaylorAmerican business executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist (born 1965)
- Vincent ViolaAmerican billionaire businessman
- John PaulsonAmerican family office manager
Other Libra Horse charts
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- Brian Thomas Jr.American football player (born 2002)
- Emeka EgbukaAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Malik BensonAmerican football player
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Jerry O'ConnellAmerican actor
- Kerr SmithAmerican actor
- Ava SamboraAmerican actress
- Nadya Sulemanmother of octuplets
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Victoria FullerAmerican television personality
- Charlie HeatonBritish actor
- Donald FaisonAmerican actor
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Usher’s cards
Computed from October 14, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Usher’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q165911 (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 US Embassy Italy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Usher at Wikipedia, ushernow.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Usher.
Quick answers about Usher’s chart
- How old is Usher?
- Usher is 48 years old, born October 14, 1978 in Dallas, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Usher?
- Usher is a Libra: born October 14, 1978, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Usher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 14, 1978 birth.
- What is Usher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Usher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Usher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Usher's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
