Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper (born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper; June 22, 1953, New York City, United States), aged 73, is an American singer. Best-known releases include She's So Unusual, True Colors and A Night to Remember. Lauper's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Cyndi Lauper’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Cyndi
Cyndi Lauper’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Cyndi in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~3,568
Americans share it since 1946
1959
its peak year
In 1953, 26 American girls were registered Cyndi — 2,027th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Cyndi’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, not the name they published under.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on C (3) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Cyndi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Cyndi apart
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video came in 1984, when Cyndi Lauper was 31.
The schooling ran through Johnson State College and Richmond Hill High School.
Cyndi Lauper was 24 when the work began in 1977.
The family line: married David Thornton.
Meryl Streep (1949) and Madeleine Vionnet (1876) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Johnson State College and Richmond Hill High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video (1984), Tony Award for Best Original Score (2013) and Grammy Award for Best New Artist (1985)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Original Score and Grammy Award for Best New Artist
- Working from
- 1977
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Cyndi, according to the stars
Core essence
Cyndi feels the room before entering it. The core of Cyndi is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Cyndi, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Cyndi feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Cyndi needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Cyndi wants to be loved
Cyndi wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Cyndi is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Cyndi creates
How Cyndi 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. Cyndi 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: Cyndi is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Cyndi is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Cyndi leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Cyndi 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 Cyndi's birth date. Working below.
Where Cyndi sits
Six lines
Cyndi’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Cyndi Lauper
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 80.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 82% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
- Known as
- Cyndi Lauper
- Born in
- New York City, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Cyndi Lauper: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Cyndi's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Cyndi Lauper's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 22, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Cyndi Lauper was born on June 22, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Cyndi Lauper's birth date, June 22, 1953, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Cyndi’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Cyndi Lauper's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Cyndi Lauper combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Cyndi’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Scorpio 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
stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 6.5° orb
Cyndi’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
Cyndi’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.6° orb
Cyndi’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.8° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.9° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.5° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.6° to 5.8° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.7° to 6.6° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Cyndi’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 19°14′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 19°40′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 6°15′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 24°45′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 20°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 0.6°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.9°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.3°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.5°
Cyndi’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Cyndi’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, UranusThree 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.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury quintile Venus 1.5°
More people like Cyndi
Other actors
- Sergio Bustric1953
- Frances Conroy1953
- Delroy Lindo1952
- Ron Howard1954
- Ulrich Mühe1953
- Amy Irving1953
Born in United States
- Bob SipchenAmerican journalist
- Tim GunnAmerican actor and fashion consultant
- Charlie ErgenAmerican businessman
- Pat CadiganAmerican science fiction author
- Stanley DruckenmillerAmerican businessman
- Joseph BathantiAmerican poet, novelist, professor
More charts like Cyndi’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Federico ViñasUruguayan footballer
- MaurícioParaguayan association football player (born 2001)
- Igor ThiagoBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
Born in Snake years
- Hans FischerGerman chemist
- Paul LauterburAmerican chemist
- John FennAmerican analytical chemist
Also born on June 22
- Meryl Streep1949
- Madeleine Vionnet1876
- Lee Min-ho1987
- Adam Schiff1960
- Johnny Devenanzio1982
- Carson Daly1973
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Jan RavnikSlovenian professional dancer and choreographer
- Kiefer SutherlandBritish-Canadian actor (born 1966)
- Alexa PenaVegaAmerican actress
Other Cancer Snake charts
- Liv TylerAmerican actress
- Daniel RicciardoAustralian racing driver
- Jess MarianoWaiter at Luke's Cafe
- Phoebe TonkinAustralian actress
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Tom KaulitzGerman musician, guitarist and pianist
- Jason LeeAmerican actor, comedian and professional skateboarder
- Heather McDonaldAmerican actress and comedian
- Aly MichalkaAmerican singer and actress
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Christina HaackAmerican real estate investor and TV personality
- Tom GreenCanadian actor and comedian
- Presley GerberAmerican model
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Cyndi’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Cyndi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1545 (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 Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cyndi Lauper at Wikipedia, cyndilauper.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Cyndi Lauper.
Quick answers about Cyndi Lauper’s chart
- How old is Cyndi Lauper?
- Cyndi Lauper is 73 years old, born June 22, 1953 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Cyndi Lauper?
- Cyndi Lauper is a Cancer: born June 22, 1953, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Cyndi Lauper's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1953 birth.
- What is Cyndi Lauper's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Cyndi Lauper's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Cyndi Lauper's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Cyndi Lauper's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
