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Chris Malachowsky

Chris Malachowsky (born May 2, 1959, Oakhurst, New Jersey, United States), aged 67, is an American electrical engineer and co-founder of Nvidia.

Chris Malachowsky’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Chris Malachowsky’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, 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

The SSA recorded 5,676 American boys and 1,409 girls named Chris in 1959: 72nd among boys and 225th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Chris’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on C (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

The record

What sets Chris apart

Penny Pritzker shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

What the chart says

Chris, according to the stars

Core essence

Chris is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Chris is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Chris is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Chris needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Chris builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Chris is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Chris is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

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. Working below.

Where Chris sits

Six lines

Chris’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Chris

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Chris

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Chris

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Chris

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Chris

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Chris

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Chris Malachowsky

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oakhurst 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 Oakhurst that night

Computed for 40.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Oakhurst at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Oakhurst sits at 40.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Oakhurst on any night.

Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 20% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Chris's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Chris Malachowsky's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 2, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Earth Pig

Trusts easily. Rarely regrets it.

Chris Malachowsky was born on May 2, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Chris Malachowsky's birth date, May 2, 1959, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Chris’s chart

Chris’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.8° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.9° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.6° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2.7° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 3.1° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.1° orbSun in Taurus · 11°30′☉11°Moon in Pisces · 14°35′☽14°Mercury in Aries · 15°22′☿15°Venus in Gemini · 20°50′♀20°Mars in Cancer · 12°41′♂12°Jupiter in Scorpio · 29°07′ · retrograde♃℞29°Saturn in Capricorn · 6°51′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Leo · 12°18′♅12°Neptune in Scorpio · 5°26′ · retrograde♆℞5°Pluto in Virgo · 1°42′ · retrograde♇℞1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableSunsquareUranus0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Chris’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.0° to 1.4° orb

    Chris’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.4° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.4° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.5° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Chris’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 27°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 23°31′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 17°14′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 25°46′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Jupiter 1.9°
  • Eros square Mercury 1.9°

Chris’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Chris’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.3°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°

Born the same day as Chris

Penny Pritzker was born on May 2, 1959 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Oakhurst, at 40.3°N, nothing below −49.7° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Chris’s cards

Computed from May 2, 1959. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

4 · Architect

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Chris’s birth date and birthplace come from English Wikipedia, which gives 2 May 1959 and records him as raised in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, New Jersey; no separate birth city is recorded. 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.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Chris Malachowsky.

Quick answers about Chris Malachowsky’s chart

How old is Chris Malachowsky?
Chris Malachowsky is 67 years old, born May 2, 1959 in Oakhurst, New Jersey, United States.
What zodiac sign is Chris Malachowsky?
Chris Malachowsky is a Taurus: born May 2, 1959, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Chris Malachowsky's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 2, 1959 birth.
What is Chris Malachowsky's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Chris Malachowsky's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Chris Malachowsky's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Chris Malachowsky's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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