Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper (born June 3, 1967, Manhattan, United States), aged 59, is an American journalist (born 1967). Cooper's honours include National Order of Honour and Merit, News and Documentary Emmy Awards and Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class.
Anderson Cooper’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Anderson Cooper’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Anderson in the U.S.?
#363
US rank in 2025
~35,646
Americans share it since 1880
2012
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Anderson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Anderson apart
Rafael Nadal (1986) and Désiré Doué (2005) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Anderson, according to the stars
Core essence
Anderson is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Anderson needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Anderson 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 Anderson needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Anderson wants to be loved
Anderson wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Anderson gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Anderson creates
How Anderson makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Anderson creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Anderson is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Anderson is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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. Anderson fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Anderson's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Anderson sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 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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The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Anderson Cooper's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 3, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Anderson Cooper was born on June 3, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Anderson Cooper's birth date, June 3, 1967, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Anderson’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anderson Cooper's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Anderson Cooper combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Anderson’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Anderson Cooper, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° 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.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.6° to 2.5° orb
Anderson’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussextileNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
Anderson’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.3° orb
Anderson’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineMars2.6° to 3.5° orb
Anderson’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb
Anderson’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
Anderson’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.5° orb
Anderson’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSunsquarePluto5.1° to 6.1° orb
Anderson’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.1° orb
Anderson’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.2° to 6.6° orb
Anderson’s mind grinds against their discipline.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.3° to 12.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Anderson’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
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 Anderson absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCancer 23°53′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Anderson is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosAries 12°27′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Anderson is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 13°11′ (moves 0.12° 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. Anderson is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Anderson carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Eros sextile Sun 0.1°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 2.1°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.3°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.5°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.9°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.9°
- Eros opposition Mars 3.0°
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°).
Anderson’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Anderson is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Anderson’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.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Anderson Cooper, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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- Désiré Doué2005
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Anderson’s cards
Every card is computed from June 3, 1967, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Anderson Cooper, 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
Anderson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316997, 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anderson Cooper at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anderson Cooper.
Quick answers about Anderson Cooper’s chart
- How old is Anderson Cooper?
- Anderson Cooper is 59 years old, born June 3, 1967 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Anderson Cooper?
- Anderson Cooper is a Gemini: born June 3, 1967, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
- What is Anderson Cooper's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 3, 1967 birth.
- What time was Anderson Cooper 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 Anderson Cooper's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 3, 1967 birth date.
- What is Anderson Cooper's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 3, 1967 birth date.
- Where is Anderson Cooper's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Anderson Cooper's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
