Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston (born August 9, 1963, Newark, United States, 20:55; died 2012), was an American singer, actress, and film producer. Houston is best remembered for The Greatest Love of All, How Will I Know and Saving All My Love for You. Houston's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Whitney Houston’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Whitney
Whitney Houston’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Whitney in the U.S.?
#1046
US rank in 2025
~103,657
Americans share it since 1884
1986
its peak year
In 1963, 271 American girls and 81 boys were registered Whitney — 611th among girls and 846th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Whitney’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on W (5) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Whitney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1963, 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 Whitney apart
Gillian Anderson (1968) and John Key (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Whitney, according to the stars
Core essence
Whitney is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Whitney 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, Whitney runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Whitney needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Whitney wants to be loved
Whitney wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Whitney openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Whitney creates
How Whitney makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Whitney builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Whitney is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Whitney is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Whitney fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Whitney's birth date. Working below.
Where Whitney sits
Six lines
Whitney’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 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 sky
Dedicate a star to Whitney Houston
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newark on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Newark at 20:55, Whitney Houston’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Newark that night
Computed for 40.74°N, at the documented birth time.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Newark at the birth hour, 77.9° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Newark sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Newark at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 75% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Newark, United States
The death is recorded at The Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills in 2012.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Whitney's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Treasurer 天府 in 酉
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 4/6
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Whitney Houston's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.
What Leo means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Whitney Houston was born on August 9, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Whitney Houston's birth date, August 9, 1963, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Whitney’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Whitney Houston's timed chart: Mercury in the 7th house, Uranus in the 7th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Whitney Houston's timed chart is Sun trine Moon, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Whitney Houston combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Whitney’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SuntrineMoonseparating · 0.4° orb
Whitney’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 0.5° orb
Whitney’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionPlutoapplying · 0.8° orb
Whitney’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 1.7° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.9° orb
MoonconjunctionJupiterapplying · 2.4° orb
MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 2.7° orb
VenussextileMarsseparating · 2.7° orb
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 2.8° orb
MoonsextileSaturnapplying · 2.9° orb
SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 3.3° orb
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.7° orb
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 5.5° orb
MercuryconjunctionUranusseparating · 5.8° orb
MoontrineVenusseparating · 5.9° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Whitney’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 13°44′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 4°24′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 11°08′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°00′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 12°25′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Pluto 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.8°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.7°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.2°
- Eros square Mars 2.6°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.7°
- Eros sextile Ascendant 2.7°
Whitney’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Pisces; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Whitney’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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
- Moon biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Moon biquintile Mercury 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
Whitney’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 9 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 8 | Moon, Jupiter | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Taurus | Venus in Leo, house 6 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 7 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 6 | Sun, Venus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 7 | Mercury, Uranus, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Libra | Venus in Leo, house 6 | Mars | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 7 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aries, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 12 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 7 | Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 relatives of Whitney Houston also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Whitney’s cards
Computed from August 9, 1963. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Whitney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q34389 (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 PH2 Mark Kettenhofen, 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 Whitney Houston.
Quick answers about Whitney Houston’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Whitney Houston?
- Whitney Houston was a Leo: born August 9, 1963, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time.
- What was Whitney Houston's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1963 birth.
- What time was Whitney Houston born?
- 20:55 local time in Newark, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Whitney Houston's rising sign?
- Pisces rising, calculated from the documented 20:55 birth time in Newark, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Whitney Houston's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Whitney Houston's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 13°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Whitney Houston's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 12°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Whitney Houston's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
