Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover (born December 11, 1979, Sulphur Springs, United States, 15:38), aged 46, is an American author. Hoover is best known for Verity, It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us.
Colleen Hoover’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Colleen
Colleen Hoover’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Colleen in the U.S.?
#2829
US rank in 2025
~163,084
Americans share it since 1901
1964
its peak year
Colleen ranked 133rd among girls and 3,607th among boys in 1979, the year of this birth, with 2,135 American girls and 11 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Colleen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Colleen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1979, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Colleen apart
The shelf Colleen Hoover is read from: It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us and Verity.
Training came by way of Texas A&M University Commerce School of Social Work and East Texas A&M University.
The working life starts in 2012, at 33.
The same date carries Rider Strong. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us and Verity
- Educated at
- Texas A&M University Commerce School of Social Work and East Texas A&M University
- Working from
- 2012
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 45
What the chart says
Colleen, according to the stars
Core essence
Colleen is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Colleen is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Colleen is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Colleen needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Colleen wants to be loved
Colleen wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Colleen you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Colleen creates
How Colleen makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Colleen creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Colleen is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Colleen is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Colleen channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Colleen's birth date. Working below.
Where Colleen sits
Six lines
Colleen’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Colleen Hoover
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sulphur Springs on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Sulphur Springs at 15:38, Colleen Hoover’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Sulphur Springs that night
Computed for 33.13°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Sulphur Springs at the birth hour: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 2.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 33.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −56.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Sulphur Springs on any night.
Sun -16° below the horizon, Moon down and 47% lit at last quarter.
What Colleen's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Warrior 武曲, The Commander 七殺 in 卯
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Colleen Hoover's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatArtist first, everything second.
Colleen Hoover was born on December 11, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Colleen Hoover's birth date, December 11, 1979, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Colleen’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Colleen Hoover's timed chart: Mercury in the 7th house and Uranus in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Colleen Hoover's timed chart is Moon sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Colleen Hoover combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Colleen’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonsextileUranusapplying · 0.3° orb
Colleen’s feelings open doors for their need for freedom.
SunconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 0.9° orb
Colleen’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.0° orb
Colleen’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 1.1° orb
SunsextilePlutoapplying · 2.0° orb
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 2.5° orb
MercurysextileSaturnseparating · 2.8° orb
SunsquareMoonseparating · 3.4° orb
SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 3.4° orb
MoonconjunctionSaturnapplying · 3.7° orb
VenussquarePlutoapplying · 4.7° orb
MoontrineVenusseparating · 6.2° orb
MercuryconjunctionUranusseparating · 6.2° orb
SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 6.2° orb
VenustrineJupiterseparating · 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Colleen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°50′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 6°08′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 4°08′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 21°19′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 17°15′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.1°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Moon 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Ascendant 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.9°
Colleen’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Colleen’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Moon, Mars, Jupiter, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Moon semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Colleen’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 9 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 5 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 7 | Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 9 | Pluto | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 6 | Mercury, Uranus | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Virgo, house 5 | Sun, Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 5 | Venus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 7 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 5 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Colleen
Rider Strong was born on December 11, 1979 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Sulphur Springs, at 33.1°N, nothing below −56.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Also born on December 11
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- Richard ErnstSwiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate
- Élie DucommunSwiss activist
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Other Tidal Explorers
- Roseanne BarrAmerican actress and comedian (born 1952)
- Gerard ButlerScottish actor and film producer
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Colleen’s cards
Computed from December 11, 1979. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
22 · Master Builder♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Colleen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q18348293 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by "GBH" on YouTube, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Colleen Hoover at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Colleen Hoover.
Quick answers about Colleen Hoover’s chart
- How old is Colleen Hoover?
- Colleen Hoover is 46 years old, born December 11, 1979 in Sulphur Springs, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Colleen Hoover?
- Colleen Hoover is a Sagittarius: born December 11, 1979, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
- What is Colleen Hoover's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 11, 1979 birth.
- What time was Colleen Hoover born?
- 15:38 local time in Sulphur Springs, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Colleen Hoover's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 15:38 birth time in Sulphur Springs, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Colleen Hoover's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Colleen Hoover's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Colleen Hoover's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 17°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Colleen Hoover's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
