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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rabbit, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~103,657
Americans share it since 1880
1986
its peak year
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Whitney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Whitney Houston's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
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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
Whitney’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.9° orb
Whitney’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonconjunctionJupiterapplying · 2.4° orb
Whitney’s feelings and growth act as one.
MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 2.7° orb
Whitney’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
VenussextileMarsseparating · 2.7° orb
Whitney’s affections open doors for their drive.
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 2.8° orb
Whitney’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
MoonsextileSaturnapplying · 2.9° orb
Whitney’s feelings open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 3.3° orb
Whitney’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.7° orb
Whitney’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 5.5° orb
Whitney’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercuryconjunctionUranusseparating · 5.8° orb
Whitney’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoontrineVenusseparating · 5.9° orb
Whitney’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 6.6° orb
Whitney’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 13°44′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Whitney absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLibra 4°24′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Whitney is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 11°08′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Whitney is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°00′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Whitney is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 12°25′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Whitney is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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°).
Whitney’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Whitney is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Whitney’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| 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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Whitney’s cards
Every card is computed from August 9, 1963, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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 data comes from
Whitney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q34389, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 PH2 Mark Kettenhofen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Whitney Houston at Wikipedia, whitneyhouston.com, IMDb, Instagram, 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rabbit.
- 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 from the August 9, 1963 birth date.
- What was Whitney Houston's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 13°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 9, 1963 birth time.
- 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.
