Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson (born April 4, 1944, Spokane, United States), aged 82, is an American actor and comedian (born 1944). Nelson's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
Craig T. Nelson’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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Craig T. Nelson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Craig in the U.S.?
#1644
US rank in 2025
~300,628
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Craig’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Craig apart
Maya Angelou (1928) and Robert Downey Jr. (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Craig, according to the stars
Core essence
Craig 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 Craig 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.
How Craig wants to be loved
Craig 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 Craig, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Craig creates
How Craig makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Craig creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Craig is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Craig is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Craig 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 Craig's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Craig sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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Craig T. Nelson in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Craig T. Nelson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 4, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Craig T. Nelson was born on April 4, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Craig T. Nelson's birth date, April 4, 1944, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Craig’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Craig T. Nelson's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Craig T. Nelson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Craig’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Craig T. Nelson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 5.3° orb
Craig’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableUranussextilePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Craig’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.5° orb
Craig’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.0° to 2.1° orb
Craig’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileMars1.4° to 2.5° orb
Craig’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.8° to 2.8° orb
Craig’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
Craig’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.9° to 5.5° orb
Craig’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb
Craig’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
Craig’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Craig’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 ℞Virgo 10°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Craig turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresCancer 3°23′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Craig is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosAquarius 27°42′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Craig is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 9°25′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Craig carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Craig exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Mars 0.4°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Hygiea square Pluto 3.0°
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°).
Craig’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. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Craig is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Craig’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.
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.0°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Craig T. Nelson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Craig’s cards
Every card is computed from April 4, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Craig T. Nelson, 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
Craig’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329807, 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 Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Craig T. Nelson at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Craig T. Nelson.
Quick answers about Craig T. Nelson’s chart
- How old is Craig T. Nelson?
- Craig T. Nelson is 82 years old, born April 4, 1944 in Spokane, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Craig T. Nelson?
- Craig T. Nelson is an Aries: born April 4, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
- What is Craig T. Nelson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1944 birth.
- What time was Craig T. Nelson 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 Craig T. Nelson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the April 4, 1944 birth date.
- What is Craig T. Nelson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 4, 1944 birth date.
- Where is Craig T. Nelson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Craig T. Nelson's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
