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Chris Hipkins

Chris Hipkins (born Christopher John Hipkins; September 5, 1978, Wellington, New Zealand), aged 48, is Prime Minister of New Zealand from January to November 2023. Hipkins has held office as Member of the New Zealand Parliament and Minister of Health.

Chris Hipkins’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Chris Hipkins’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Chris is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Chris cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Chris needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Chris wants to be loved

Chris wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Chris gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Chris is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Chris fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Chris's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Chris sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Chris

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Chris

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Chris

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Chris

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Chris

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Chris

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Chris Hipkins

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wellington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Chris’s birth-night reference starKaus Australisblue-white · SagittariusKaus Australis, in Sagittarius. A blue-white star, 74.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Kaus Australis →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 48.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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.

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Chris Hipkins's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 5, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Earth Horse

Can't stand still. Won't.

Chris Hipkins was born on September 5, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Chris Hipkins's birth date, September 5, 1978, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Chris’s chart

Chris’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Chris Hipkins, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.1° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.9° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.5° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.9° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 4° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.6° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.9° orbSun in Virgo · 12°05′☉12°Moon in Libra · 8°47′☽8°Mercury in Leo · 24°02′☿24°Venus in Libra · 27°59′♀27°Mars in Libra · 20°08′♂20°Jupiter in Cancer · 29°56′♃29°Saturn in Virgo · 5°02′♄5°Uranus in Scorpio · 13°12′♅13°Neptune in Sagittarius · 15°34′♆15°Pluto in Libra · 15°16′♇15°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb

    Chris’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.6° to 1.6° orb

    Chris’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.6° to 2.3° orb

    Chris’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb

    Chris’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.7° to 4.1° orb

    Chris’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.9° to 4.0° orb

    Chris’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb

    Chris’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.6° to 5.2° orb

    Chris’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn6.6° to 7.5° orb

    Chris’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars7.7° to 8.0° orb

    Chris’s affections and drive act as one.

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.4° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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 ℞Taurus 9°33′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Chris building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Chris caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 6°34′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Chris is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 23°10′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Chris is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 25°41′ (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.

  • Hygiea trine Mercury 0.9°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 1.5°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.5°

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. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Mercury; 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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mars semi-square Saturn 0.1°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chris Hipkins, 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 September 5, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Chris Hipkins, 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 Q5106890, 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 New Zealand Labour Party., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Chris Hipkins at Wikipedia, 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 Chris Hipkins.

Quick answers about Chris Hipkins’s chart

How old is Chris Hipkins?
Chris Hipkins is 48 years old, born September 5, 1978 in Wellington, New Zealand.
What zodiac sign is Chris Hipkins?
Chris Hipkins is a Virgo: born September 5, 1978, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
What is Chris Hipkins's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 5, 1978 birth.
What time was Chris Hipkins 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 Hipkins's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 5, 1978 birth date.
What is Chris Hipkins's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 5, 1978 birth date.
Where is Chris Hipkins's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Chris Hipkins's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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