Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle; July 20, 1964, Seattle, United States; died 2017), was an American musician. Best-known releases include Euphoria Morning, Carry On and Scream.
Chris Cornell’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Chris Cornell’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
11 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
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 an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Chris needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Chris wants to be loved
Chris 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 Chris like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Chris is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Chris scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Chris's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Chris sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Chris Cornell's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1964, 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.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Chris Cornell was born on July 20, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Chris Cornell's birth date, July 20, 1964, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Chris’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chris Cornell's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Chris Cornell combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Chris’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Chris Cornell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° 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.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.3° to 1.7° orb
Chris’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.9° to 2.1° orb
Chris’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.2° to 1.5° orb
Chris’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercurysextileMars2.4° to 3.3° orb
Chris’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
Chris’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
Chris’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.5° to 6.1° orb
Chris’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
Chris’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb
Chris’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.7° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 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 ℞Pisces 18°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Chris absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 24°31′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Chris is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 9°07′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Chris loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°22′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Chris needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
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 Chris leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.0°
- Ceres opposition Mars 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.3°
- Ceres opposition Venus 2.6°
- Chiron sextile 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°).
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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Chris is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
T-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Neptune, MercuryAn 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 biquintile Saturn 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chris Cornell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Chris’s cards
Every card is computed from July 20, 1964, 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
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Chris Cornell, 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 Q270935, 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 Matthew Straubmuller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chris Cornell at Wikipedia, chriscornell.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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 Cornell.
Quick answers about Chris Cornell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Chris Cornell?
- Chris Cornell was a Cancer: born July 20, 1964, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon.
- What was Chris Cornell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1964 birth.
- What time was Chris Cornell 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.
- How tall was Chris Cornell?
- Chris Cornell was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Chris Cornell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the July 20, 1964 birth date.
- What was Chris Cornell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 20, 1964 birth date.
- Where was Chris Cornell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Chris Cornell's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
