Brian Cox
Brian Cox (born March 3, 1968, Oldham, United Kingdom), aged 58, is an English physicist and musician. Cox is best known for Wonders of the Solar System, The Quantum Universe and Human Universe. Cox's honours include Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and honorary doctorate.
Brian Cox’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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Brian Cox’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Brian in the U.S.?
#339
US rank in 2025
~1,178,298
Americans share it since 1880
1972
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Brian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Brian, according to the stars
Core essence
Brian feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Brian is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Brian wants to be loved
Brian wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Brian be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Brian creates
How Brian makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Brian creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Brian is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Brian 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Brian 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 Brian's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Brian sits
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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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Brian Cox's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 3, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Brian Cox was born on March 3, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Brian Cox's birth date, March 3, 1968, 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 Brian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brian Cox's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Brian Cox combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Brian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Brian Cox, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Brian’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 7.0° orb
Brian’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableUranussextileNeptune1.3° orb
Brian’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.5° to 3.3° orb
Brian’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.7° to 2.9° orb
Brian’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars3.2° to 3.7° orb
Brian’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenussextileSaturn3.2° to 4.3° orb
Brian’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° to 4.8° orb
Brian’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.0° orb
Brian’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Brian’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 28°18′ (moves 0.06° 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 Brian absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 6°09′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Brian is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ Eros ℞Libra 15°06′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Brian is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaPisces 1°29′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Brian needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Brian is read as immovable on those points.
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 trine Venus 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Brian’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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Brian is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Brian’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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brian Cox, 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
Brian’s cards
Every card is computed from March 3, 1968, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Brian Cox, 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
Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q463581, 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 Duncan.Hull, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brian Cox at Wikipedia, briancoxlive.co.uk, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Brian Cox.
Quick answers about Brian Cox’s chart
- How old is Brian Cox?
- Brian Cox is 58 years old, born March 3, 1968 in Oldham, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Brian Cox?
- Brian Cox is a Pisces: born March 3, 1968, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
- What is Brian Cox's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 3, 1968 birth.
- What time was Brian Cox 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 Brian Cox's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the March 3, 1968 birth date.
- What is Brian Cox's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 3, 1968 birth date.
- Where is Brian Cox's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brian Cox's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
