Gareth Cook
Gareth Cook (born September 15, 1969, Ann Arbor, United States), aged 57, is an American journalist and editor. Cook's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
Gareth Cook’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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Gareth Cook’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 Gareth in the U.S.?
#2776
US rank in 2025
~4,394
Americans share it since 1880
2016
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gareth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gareth, according to the stars
Core essence
Gareth notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Gareth is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Gareth 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 Gareth 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 Gareth wants to be loved
Gareth wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Gareth openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Gareth creates
How Gareth makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Gareth creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Gareth is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Gareth 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Gareth has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Gareth's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gareth sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Gareth Cook in 15 seconds
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Gareth Cook's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 15, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Gareth Cook was born on September 15, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Gareth Cook's birth date, September 15, 1969, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Gareth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gareth Cook's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Gareth Cook 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.
Gareth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gareth Cook, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Scorpio 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.
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 7.6° orb
Gareth’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquarePluto1.5° to 2.1° orb
Gareth’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
Gareth’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.7° to 2.6° orb
Gareth’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileNeptune3.2° to 4.2° orb
Gareth’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.5° to 3.7° orb
Gareth’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareMars3.8° to 4.2° orb
Gareth’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenussquareNeptune4.7° to 5.9° orb
Gareth’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineMars5.3° to 5.9° orb
Gareth’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus7.5° to 7.6° orb
Gareth’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 5.7° to 17.9° depending on birth time
possibleMarssquareUranusorb from 6.7° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Gareth’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 ℞Aries 5°08′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Gareth may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 27°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Gareth caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosLeo 12°30′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Gareth loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 12°40′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Gareth needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Gareth guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.7°
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°).
Gareth’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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Gareth is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Gareth’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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gareth Cook, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Gareth’s cards
Every card is computed from September 15, 1969, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gareth Cook, 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
Gareth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5522803, 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.
The same Gareth Cook at Wikipedia and X.
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 Gareth Cook.
Quick answers about Gareth Cook’s chart
- How old is Gareth Cook?
- Gareth Cook is 57 years old, born September 15, 1969 in Ann Arbor, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gareth Cook?
- Gareth Cook is a Virgo: born September 15, 1969, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster.
- What is Gareth Cook's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 15, 1969 birth.
- What time was Gareth Cook 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 Gareth Cook's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the September 15, 1969 birth date.
- What is Gareth Cook's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 15, 1969 birth date.
- Where is Gareth Cook's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gareth Cook's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
