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Brook Lopez

Brook Lopez (born April 1, 1988, North Hollywood, United States), aged 38, is an American basketball player (born 1988). Lopez has played for Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks and United States men's national basketball team.

Brook Lopez’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Brook Lopez’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Brook in the U.S.?

#4373

US rank in 2025

~14,021

Americans share it since 1915

1980

its peak year

Brook ranked 897th among girls and 1,451st among boys in 1988, the year of this birth, with 195 American girls and 53 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Brook’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

5

Soul Urge · freedom

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on B (2) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Brook’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

White · Crimson · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1988, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Brook apart

San Joaquin Memorial High School and Stanford University shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2008, at 20.

Wikipedia's editors put Brook Lopez under New Jersey Nets players, Basketball players from Fresno, California and American people of Cuban descent.

Wangari Muta Maathai (1940) and Milan Kundera (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
San Joaquin Memorial High School and Stanford University
Working from
2008
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
32

What the chart says

Brook, according to the stars

Core essence

Brook leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Brook is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Brook wants to be loved

Brook wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Brook is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Brook creates

How Brook makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Brook creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Brook is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Brook is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Brook does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Brook's birth date. Working below.

Where Brook sits

Six lines

Brook’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Brook

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Brook

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Brook

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Brook

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Brook

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Brook

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Brook Lopez

Three stars chosen from the real sky above North Hollywood on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over North Hollywood that night

Computed for 34.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over North Hollywood at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 34.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −55.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from North Hollywood on any night.

The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.

How unusual Brook's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Neptune · No Air planets

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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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The quick version

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Brook Lopez's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 1, 1988, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Earth Dragon

Born for the big room.

Brook Lopez was born on April 1, 1988, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Brook Lopez's birth date, April 1, 1988, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Brook’s chart

Brook’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.4° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 1.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.1° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 3.5° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.6° orbSun in Aries · 12°18′☉12°Moon in Libra · 6°02′☽6°Mercury in Pisces · 24°39′☿24°Venus in Taurus · 28°09′♀28°Mars in Capricorn · 26°35′♂26°Jupiter in Taurus · 5°20′♃5°Saturn in Capricorn · 2°29′♄2°Uranus in Capricorn · 1°03′♅1°Neptune in Capricorn · 10°10′♆10°Pluto in Scorpio · 11°59′ · retrograde♇℞11°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextileMars1.4° to 2.4° orb

    Brook’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineMars1.4° to 1.7° orb

    Brook’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.4° orb

    Brook’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune1.6° to 2.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn2.7° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.1° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune4.7° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.5° to 6.8° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Brook’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 23°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 4°55′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 24°40′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 29°23′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.4°
  • Chiron square Mercury 0.8°
  • Hygiea square Venus 1.2°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.7°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.9°

Brook’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mars, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Brook’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Mars, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quincunx Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°

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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Brook’s cards

Computed from April 1, 1988. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Brook’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q460131 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by User:Zafer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Brook Lopez at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Brook Lopez.

Quick answers about Brook Lopez’s chart

How old is Brook Lopez?
Brook Lopez is 38 years old, born April 1, 1988 in North Hollywood, United States.
What zodiac sign is Brook Lopez?
Brook Lopez is an Aries: born April 1, 1988, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Brook Lopez's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 1, 1988 birth.
How tall is Brook Lopez?
Brook Lopez is 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Brook Lopez's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Brook Lopez's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Brook Lopez's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Brook Lopez's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mars, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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