Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien (born April 18, 1963, Brookline, United States), aged 63, is an American television show host and comedian. O'Brien is best known for Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. O'Brien's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series and Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Conan O'Brien’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Conan
Conan O'Brien’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Conan in the U.S.?
#1678
US rank in 2025
~2,438
Americans share it since 1923
2025
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1963, Conan came 2,708th, carried by 10 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Conan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
9
Soul Urge · meaning
11
Personality · perceptive
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
Conan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Conan apart
What keeps Conan O'Brien in print: The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Training came by way of Brookline High School and Harvard University.
The working life starts in 1987, at 24.
The family line: born to Ruth Reardon O'Brien and Thomas Francis O'Brien.
Haile Gebrselassie (1973) and America Ferrera (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- Educated at
- Brookline High School and Harvard University
- Awards
- Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2025)
- Working from
- 1987
- Wikipedia editions
- 67
What the chart says
Conan, according to the stars
Core essence
Conan leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Conan is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Conan needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Conan needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Conan wants to be loved
Conan wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Conan, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Conan creates
How Conan makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Conan creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Conan is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Conan is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Conan fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Conan's birth date. Working below.
Where Conan sits
Six lines
Conan’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Conan O'Brien
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brookline 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 Brookline that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brookline at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 7.7° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 30% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
How unusual Conan's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 2 unaspected planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Conan O'Brien's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 18, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Conan O'Brien was born on April 18, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Conan O'Brien's birth date, April 18, 1963, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Conan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Conan O'Brien's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Conan O'Brien combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Conan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Aquarius 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
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.4° to 2.0° orb
Conan’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb
Conan’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.6° to 4.0° orb
Conan’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareMars4.4° to 5.6° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.8° to 6.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.4° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Conan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 13°19′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 4°30′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°09′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 14°26′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 29°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Eros square Sun 2.8°
Conan’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Conan’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Neptune, SaturnAn 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.
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.1°
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More charts like Conan’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Jackie ChanHong Kong actor and martial artist
- Céline DionFrench Canadian singer
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Born in Rabbit years
- Harold E. VarmusAmerican scientist
- John VaneEnglish pharmacologist
- Lee HartwellAmerican biologist
Also born on April 18
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Stevie NicksAmerican singer and songwriter born 1948
- Lisa Marie PresleyAmerican singer-songwriter
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Other Aries Rabbit charts
- Seamus HeaneyIrish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
- Marvin GayeAmerican R&B and soul singer
- FergieAmerican singer, rapper and actress
- Pedro PascalChilean and American actor
Other Gilded Pioneers
- Michael PhelpsAmerican swimmer
- Bruno MarsAmerican singer-songwriter and record producer
- Gillian AndersonAmerican actress
- Paul WalkerAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Marsha MasonAmerican actress (born 1942)
- Ursula AndressSwiss actress
- Michel LegrandFrench film score composer
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Conan’s cards
Computed from April 18, 1963. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Conan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q486740 (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 Montclair Film, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Conan O'Brien.
Quick answers about Conan O'Brien’s chart
- How old is Conan O'Brien?
- Conan O'Brien is 63 years old, born April 18, 1963 in Brookline, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Conan O'Brien?
- Conan O'Brien is an Aries: born April 18, 1963, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Conan O'Brien's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 18, 1963 birth.
- What is Conan O'Brien's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Conan O'Brien's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Conan O'Brien's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Conan O'Brien's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
