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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Cher
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 1948
1972
its peak year
US records hold Cher from 1948 onward, though not for 1946 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1972 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Cher’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Cheryl Sarkisian, not the name they published under.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Cher’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Cher apart
Cher took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture in 1984, at 38.
The Center for Early Education and Montclair College Preparatory School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1963, at 17.
Cher was born to Georgia Holt and John Sarkisian, married Gregg Allman and Sonny Bono and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Cher under American house musicians, Activists from Malibu, California and Actresses from Malibu, California.
José Mujica (1935) and Petr Čech (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- The Center for Early Education, Montclair College Preparatory School and Fresno High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actress (1988), Grammy Awards (2000) and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2024)
- Nominated for
- European Film Award, People's Choice Award for Best European Film and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1963
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 118
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. Working below.
Where Cher sits
Six lines
Cher’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Cher
Three stars chosen from the real sky above El Centro on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above El Centro at 07:25, Cher’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over El Centro that night
Computed for 32.79°N, at the documented birth time.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over El Centro at the birth hour, 82.0° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
From 32.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −57.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from El Centro on any night.
The Moon, 83% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -33° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Cheryl Sarkisian
- Known as
- Cher
- Born in
- El Centro, United States
- Lives in
- Malibu
Wikidata records Malibu as Cher's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Cher's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Warrior 武曲, The Charmer 貪狼 in 丑
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Jupiter
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Cher's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb
MercurysquareMarsseparating · 3.1° orb
MarssextileUranusapplying · 3.1° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.6° orb
MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.7° orb
MercurysextileSaturnapplying · 4.6° orb
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 15°24′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 12°22′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 19°21′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 14°09′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°38′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Cher’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Cher’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Cher’s cards
Computed from May 20, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Cher’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q12003 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Raph_PH, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cher at Wikipedia, cherfanclub.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Cher.
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.
- 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.
- What is Cher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 15°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
