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.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Chris
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 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.
Score your own chart →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry 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
Earth PigTrusts 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
Life Path 4Builds 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
- The tightest major aspect in Chris Malachowsky's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Chris Malachowsky combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
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.
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
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. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Chris’s chart
T-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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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Chris’s cards
Computed from May 2, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese 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.
