Chip Gaines
Chip Gaines (born November 14, 1974, Albuquerque, United States), aged 51, is a Co-star of HGTV's Fixer Upper.
Chip Gaines’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Tiger, with 
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Chip Gaines’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Chip in the U.S.?
#4274
US rank in 2025
~3,493
Americans share it since 1880
1962
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Chip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Chip apart
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889) and Charles III (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Chip, according to the stars
Core essence
Chip does not do surface. The core of Chip is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Chip is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Chip wants to be loved
Chip wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Chip even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Chip creates
How Chip makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Chip creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Chip is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Chip is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Chip leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Chip 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 Chip's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Chip sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 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.
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Chip Gaines's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 14, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Chip Gaines was born on November 14, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Chip Gaines's birth date, November 14, 1974, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Chip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chip Gaines' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Chip Gaines combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Chip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Chip Gaines, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
Chip’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.5° orb
Chip’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.2° orb
Chip’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.8° to 3.8° orb
Chip’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.4° to 4.0° orb
Chip’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb
Chip’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.8° to 5.0° orb
Chip’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.7° to 6.0° orb
Chip’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.4° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.5° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.9° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.2° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Chip’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Chip may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 2°46′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Chip is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCancer 9°27′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Chip is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 28°20′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
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 Chip feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Chip at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.0°
- Eros square Pluto 1.1°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.2°
- Eros trine Mars 2.4°
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°).
Chip’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Chip is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Chip’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 Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chip Gaines, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Chip’s cards
Every card is computed from November 14, 1974, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Chip Gaines, 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
Chip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28055416, 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 Mily Fitzgerald, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chip Gaines at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
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 Chip Gaines.
Quick answers about Chip Gaines’s chart
- How old is Chip Gaines?
- Chip Gaines is 51 years old, born November 14, 1974 in Albuquerque, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Chip Gaines?
- Chip Gaines is a Scorpio: born November 14, 1974, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger.
- What is Chip Gaines's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 14, 1974 birth.
- What time was Chip Gaines 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 Chip Gaines's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 14, 1974 birth date.
- What is Chip Gaines's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 14, 1974 birth date.
- Where is Chip Gaines's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Chip Gaines's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
