Usher
Usher (born October 14, 1978, Dallas, United States), aged 47, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Horse, with 
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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 1880
2025
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Usher’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Usher sits
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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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Usher, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Usher’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.8° orb
Usher’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.4° orb
Usher’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus7.4° to 7.5° orb
Usher’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
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
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 ℞Taurus 8°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Usher building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 15°29′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Usher caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosLibra 11°23′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Usher is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°43′ (moves 0.30° 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. Usher is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Usher is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Usher’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Usher is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Usher’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Usher, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Usher’s cards
Every card is computed from October 14, 1978, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Usher, 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
Usher’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q165911, 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 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. 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.
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Quick answers about Usher’s chart
- How old is Usher?
- Usher is 47 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
- 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 time was Usher 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 is Usher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 14, 1978 birth date.
- What is Usher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 14, 1978 birth date.
- 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.
