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Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens (born December 14, 1988, Salinas, United States, 21:27), aged 37, is an American actress and singer. Hudgens is best known for The Princess Switch, The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star and Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

Vanessa Hudgens’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Vanessa Hudgens’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Vanessa in the U.S.?

#377

US rank in 2025

~262,606

Americans share it since 1900

1985

its peak year

The SSA recorded 7,516 American girls and 72 boys named Vanessa in 1988: 41st among girls and 1,201st among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Vanessa’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on V (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Vanessa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

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 1988, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Vanessa apart

The record Vanessa Hudgens is measured by: High School Musical 3: Senior Year, High School Musical and High School Musical 2.

Vanessa Hudgens was taught at Orange County School of the Arts and Guajome Park Academy.

Vanessa Hudgens was 12 when the work began in 2000.

On the family side, Vanessa Hudgens was married Cole Tucker.

Nicolas Batum shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
High School Musical 3: Senior Year, High School Musical and High School Musical 2
Educated at
Orange County School of the Arts and Guajome Park Academy
Instruments
guitar and voice
Working from
2000
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
85

What the chart says

Vanessa, according to the stars

Core essence

Vanessa is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Vanessa is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Vanessa 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 Vanessa 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 Vanessa wants to be loved

Vanessa 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 Vanessa even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Vanessa creates

How Vanessa makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Vanessa creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Vanessa is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Vanessa is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Vanessa gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Vanessa's birth date. Working below.

Where Vanessa sits

Six lines

Vanessa’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Vanessa

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Vanessa

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Vanessa

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Vanessa

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Vanessa

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Vanessa

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Salinas at 21:27, Vanessa Hudgens’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Salinas that night

Computed for 36.68°N, at the documented birth time.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Salinas at the birth hour, 85.3° above the horizon in Perseus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

Salinas sits at 36.7°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 Salinas at all: they sit past the −53.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 39% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 54° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Salinas, United States
Lives in
Studio City · Brooklyn

Wikidata records Studio City and Brooklyn as Vanessa Hudgens's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Vanessa's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Warrior 武曲, The Charmer 貪狼 in 丑

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Projector, profile 1/4

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Capricorn · No Air planets · A leaning bowl

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.

Score your own chart →

If you only read one paragraph

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Vanessa Hudgens's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Dragon

Born for the big room.

Vanessa Hudgens was born on December 14, 1988, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Vanessa Hudgens's birth date, December 14, 1988, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Vanessa’s chart

Vanessa’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.4° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.9° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.8° orbSun in Sagittarius · 23°28′ · house 5☉23°Moon in Pisces · 10°17′ · house 8☽10°Mercury in Capricorn · 1°09′ · house 6☿1°Venus in Scorpio · 26°52′ · house 4♀26°Mars in Aries · 12°12′ · house 9♂12°Jupiter in Taurus · 28°14′ · house 10 · retrograde♃℞28°Saturn in Capricorn · 3°37′ · house 6♄3°Uranus in Capricorn · 0°45′ · house 6♅0°Neptune in Capricorn · 9°17′ · house 6♆9°Pluto in Scorpio · 14°03′ · house 4♇14°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 22°32′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 22°32′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 16°39′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 16°39′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantLeo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercuryconjunctionUranusseparating · 0.4° orb

    Vanessa’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • MoonsextileNeptuneseparating · 1.0° orb

    Vanessa’s feelings open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenusoppositionJupiterapplying · 1.4° orb

    Vanessa’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • MercuryconjunctionSaturnapplying · 2.5° orb

  • MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 2.9° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 2.9° orb

  • MoontrinePlutoapplying · 3.8° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.8° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.7° orb

  • SunconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.3° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Vanessa’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 4°57′ · House 12

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 21°34′ · House 8

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAries 14°34′ · House 9

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°06′ · House 4

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°55′ · House 2

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.5°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 1.3°
  • Ceres square Sun 1.9°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.9°

Vanessa’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8.5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; angular in the tenth house; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Vanessa’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneThree 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.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.6°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.7°
  • Moon semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 1.9°

Vanessa’s houses

Vanessa’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Sagittarius, house 5emptyself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Capricorn, house 6emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Scorpio, house 4emptymind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 4Venus, Plutohome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Taurus, house 10Suncreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Capricorn, house 6Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptunework, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Capricorn, house 6emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 6Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Aries, house 9Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Scorpio, house 4Jupitercareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Capricorn, house 6emptyfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Pisces, house 8emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Vanessa’s family here

One relative of Vanessa Hudgens also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Vanessa

Nicolas Batum was born on December 14, 1988 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Salinas sits at 36.7°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Vanessa’s cards

Computed from December 14, 1988. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Vanessa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q123174 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Presidential Communications Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Vanessa Hudgens at Wikipedia, vanessahudgens.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 Vanessa Hudgens.

Quick answers about Vanessa Hudgens’s chart

How old is Vanessa Hudgens?
Vanessa Hudgens is 37 years old, born December 14, 1988 in Salinas, United States.
What zodiac sign is Vanessa Hudgens?
Vanessa Hudgens is a Sagittarius: born December 14, 1988, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What is Vanessa Hudgens's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 14, 1988 birth.
What time was Vanessa Hudgens born?
21:27 local time in Salinas, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Vanessa Hudgens's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 21:27 birth time in Salinas, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Vanessa Hudgens?
Vanessa Hudgens is 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Vanessa Hudgens's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Vanessa Hudgens's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 4°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Vanessa Hudgens's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Vanessa Hudgens's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; angular in the tenth house; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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