Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby (born July 12, 1937, Philadelphia, United States), aged 89, is an American actor and comedian (born 1937). Cosby is best known for The Cosby Show. Cosby's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Golden Globe Awards.
Bill Cosby’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Ox, with 
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Bill Cosby’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Bill in the U.S.?
#5235
US rank in 2025
~161,190
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Bill’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Bill apart
Pablo Neruda (1904) and Vinícius Júnior (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Bill, according to the stars
Core essence
Bill feels the room before entering it. The core of Bill is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Bill, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Bill is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Bill needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Bill wants to be loved
Bill wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Bill like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Bill creates
How Bill makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Bill creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Bill is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Bill is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Bill 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 Bill's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bill sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Bill Cosby's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Bill Cosby was born on July 12, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Bill Cosby's birth date, July 12, 1937, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Bill’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bill Cosby's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bill Cosby combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Bill’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Bill Cosby, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Virgo 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.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Bill’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 7.9° orb
Bill’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineMars0.8° to 1.6° orb
Bill’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.9° to 3.2° orb
Bill’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 1.9° orb
Bill’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.2° to 4.3° orb
Bill’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.4° to 3.4° orb
Bill’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.7° to 3.6° orb
Bill’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineMars2.8° to 4.7° orb
Bill’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.6° orb
Bill’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileNeptune4.2° to 4.4° orb
Bill’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.4° to 5.5° orb
Bill’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Bill’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 26°42′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Bill turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 29°23′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Bill is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAries 25°26′ (moves 0.53° 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. Bill is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaLeo 4°60′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Bill at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Bill leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.1°
- Eros square Mercury 0.6°
- Eros square Pluto 2.6°
- Eros square Jupiter 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°).
Bill’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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Bill is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Bill’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 Cancer · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.3°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bill Cosby, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Bill’s cards
Every card is computed from July 12, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Bill Cosby, 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
Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q213512, 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 The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bill Cosby at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bill Cosby.
Quick answers about Bill Cosby’s chart
- How old is Bill Cosby?
- Bill Cosby is 89 years old, born July 12, 1937 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Bill Cosby?
- Bill Cosby is a Cancer: born July 12, 1937, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox.
- What is Bill Cosby's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1937 birth.
- What time was Bill Cosby 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.
- How tall is Bill Cosby?
- Bill Cosby is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Bill Cosby's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 12, 1937 birth date.
- What is Bill Cosby's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 12, 1937 birth date.
- Where is Bill Cosby's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bill Cosby's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
