Cher
Cher (born Cheryl Sarkisian; May 20, 1946, El Centro, United States, 07:25), aged 80, is an American singer, actress and television personality. Best-known releases include Believe, Burlesque – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Closer to the Truth. Cher's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Grammy Awards.
Cher’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
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Cher’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 Cher in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~1,831
Americans share it since 1880
1972
its peak year
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Cher’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Cher, according to the stars
Core essence
Cher is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Cher is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Cher is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Cher needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Cher wants to be loved
Cher 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 Cher like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Cher creates
How Cher 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. Cher 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: Cher is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Cher 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Cher fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Cher's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Cher sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Cher's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
Cher was born on May 20, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Cher's birth date, May 20, 1946, 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 Cher’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Cher's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 4th house, Saturn in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Cher's timed chart is Moon square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Cher 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.
Cher’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.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonsquareJupiterseparating · 0.1° orb
Cher’s feelings grind against their growth.
MoontrineMercuryseparating · 1.8° orb
Cher’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
JupitertrineUranusapplying · 2.0° orb
Cher’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 2.7° orb
Cher’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb
Cher’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercurysquareMarsseparating · 3.1° orb
Cher’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssextileUranusapplying · 3.1° orb
Cher’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.6° orb
Cher’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.7° orb
Cher’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercurysextileSaturnapplying · 4.6° orb
Cher’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 6.9° orb
Cher’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Cher’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 ℞Libra 15°24′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Cher is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresAquarius 12°22′ · House 8
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. Cher is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAries 19°21′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Cher is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAries 14°09′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Cher feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°38′ · House 6
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 Cher leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.8°
- Chiron trine Uranus 1.0°
- Ceres opposition Mars 1.0°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros square Moon 1.1°
- Eros square Saturn 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.6°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.7°
- Chiron square Moon 2.9°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.9°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 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°).
Cher’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Cher is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Cher’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
T-square onto Jupiter · Moon, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Sun quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Moon quincunx Uranus 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
Cher’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 | Cancer | Moon in Capricorn, house 7 | Saturn | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 11 | Mars, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 11 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 12 | Jupiter, Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 4 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Cancer, house 1 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 12 | Sun, Mercury | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 11 | Venus, Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Cher’s cards
Every card is computed from May 20, 1946, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Cher’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q12003, 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 Raph_PH, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Cher’s chart
- How old is Cher?
- Cher is 80 years old, born May 20, 1946 in El Centro, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Cher?
- Cher is a Taurus: born May 20, 1946, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog.
- What is Cher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1946 birth.
- What time was Cher born?
- 07:25 local time in El Centro, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Cher's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 07:25 birth time in El Centro, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Cher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 20, 1946 birth date.
- What is Cher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 15°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 20, 1946 birth time.
- Where is Cher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 1°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Cher's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
