Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper (born July 9, 1951, Kansas City, United States), aged 75, is an American actor (1951-). Cooper's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Chris Cooper’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Chris Cooper’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Chris in the U.S.?
#646
US rank in 2025
~170,417
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Chris’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Chris, according to the stars
Core essence
Chris feels the room before entering it. The core of Chris is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Chris, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Chris is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Chris needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Chris wants to be loved
Chris wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Chris and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Chris creates
How Chris makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Chris creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Chris is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Chris is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Chris does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Chris's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Chris Cooper's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 9, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Chris Cooper was born on July 9, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Chris Cooper's birth date, July 9, 1951, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Chris’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chris Cooper's date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Chris Cooper combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Chris’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Chris Cooper, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Virgo 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.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Chris’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
Chris’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileMars2.5° to 2.7° orb
Chris’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.0° orb
Chris’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.1° to 4.0° orb
Chris’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
Chris’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.3° to 5.4° orb
Chris’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.6° orb
Chris’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionUranus6.1° to 7.0° orb
Chris’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.6° to 6.7° orb
Chris’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 5.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.4° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Chris’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 ℞Sagittarius 28°37′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Chris building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresPisces 16°49′ (moves 0.02° 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: Chris is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAries 8°57′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Chris is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaPisces 21°04′ (moves 0.03° 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 Chris needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Chris guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 Sun 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.6°
- Eros square Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.6°
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°).
Chris’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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Chris is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Chris’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 Cancer · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chris Cooper, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Chris
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Born in United States
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- Frank WilczekAmerican theoretical physicist
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More charts like Chris’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Marvin KellerSwiss association football player
- Neil El AynaouiMorrocan footballer
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Born in Rabbit years
- Buddy JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- TzuyuTaiwanese singer (born 1999)
- ChaeyoungSouth Korean rapper and singer
Also born on July 9
- Tom Hanks1956
- Courtney Love1964
- O. J. Simpson1947
- Lindsey Graham1955
- Jack White1975
- Marc Andreessen1971
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Joan SutherlandAustralian soprano
- Isaac SternAmerican musician
- Seiji OzawaJapanese orchestra conductor
Other Cancer Rabbit charts
- Presley GerberAmerican model
- AnnaLynne McCordAmerican actress
- Nadya Sulemanmother of octuplets
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Other Gilded Pioneers
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- Don Edward FehrenbacherAmerican historian
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Chris’s cards
Every card is computed from July 9, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Chris Cooper, 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
Chris’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273208, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chris Cooper at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Chris Cooper.
Quick answers about Chris Cooper’s chart
- How old is Chris Cooper?
- Chris Cooper is 75 years old, born July 9, 1951 in Kansas City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Chris Cooper?
- Chris Cooper is a Cancer: born July 9, 1951, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
- What is Chris Cooper's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1951 birth.
- What time was Chris Cooper 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 Chris Cooper's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 9, 1951 birth date.
- What is Chris Cooper's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 9, 1951 birth date.
- Where is Chris Cooper's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Chris Cooper's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
