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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Chris
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
In 1964, 5,639 American boys and 1,377 girls were registered Chris — 65th among boys and 233rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Chris’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Christopher John Boyle, not the name they published under.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on R (9).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chris’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Chris apart
Chris Cornell was taught at Shorewood High School.
Chris Cornell was 20 when the work began in 1984.
The record gives hanging to death as the cause, and Hollywood Forever Cemetery as the resting place.
Chris Cornell was born to Karen Cornell and Edward Boyle, married Susan Silver and raised one child.
Gregor Mendel (1822) and Gisele Bündchen (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Shorewood High School
- Instruments
- guitar and voice
- Working from
- 1984
- Cause of death
- hanging to death
- Buried at
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
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. Working below.
Where Chris sits
Six lines
Chris’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Chris Cornell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Seattle on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Seattle that night
Computed for 47.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Seattle at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.1° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
At 47.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Seattle at all: they sit past the −42.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 89% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 0° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Christopher John Boyle
- Known as
- Chris Cornell
- Born in
- Seattle, United States
The death is recorded at Detroit, Wayne County in 2017.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Chris Cornell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Chris's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Mercury
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.5° to 6.1° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 24°31′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 9°07′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°22′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Chris’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Chris’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Chris
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Born in United States
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More charts like Chris’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Jacques PerrinFrench actor and film producer
- Alessio BoniItalian actor
- Leonardo SbaragliaArgentine actor
Born in Dragon years
- Clive OwenEnglish actor
- Piper PeraboAmerican actress
- Keri RussellAmerican actress
Also born on July 20
- Gregor Mendel1822
- Gisele Bündchen1980
- Carlos Santana1947
- Ben Simmons1996
- Judy Greer1975
- Julianne Hough1988
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Mads MikkelsenDanish actor
- Cindy CrawfordAmerican model
- Emmanuel AdebayorTogolese soccer player
Other Cancer Dragon charts
- Jane EspensonAmerican television writer and producer
- Ronald D. MooreAmerican screenwriter and television producer (1964-)
- Brian K. VaughanAmerican screenwriter, comic book creator
- Dean ParisotAmerican film and television director
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Mack HollinsAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Cameron JohnstonAustralian player of American football
- Jake FergusonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Joe BurrowAmerican football player (born 1996)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Christophe SoumillonBelgian jockey
- Jordan SpiethAmerican professional golfer
- Bryson DeChambeauAmerican professional golfer
From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Chris’s cards
Computed from July 20, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
11 · Visionary☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chris’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q270935 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Chris Cornell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
