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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born May 7, 1901, Helena, United States; died 1961), was an American actor. Cooper's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Academy Honorary Award.

Gary Cooper’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Gary Cooper’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Gary in the U.S.?

#1073

US rank in 2025

~905,438

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1901, Gary came 699th, carried by 10 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Gary’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Gary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia

Ivory · Blush · Silver

The record

What sets Gary apart

Eva Perón (1919) and MrBeast (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Gary, according to the stars

Core essence

Gary is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Gary is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Gary wants to be loved

Gary 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 Gary is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Gary creates

How Gary makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Gary creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Gary is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gary 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 Gary 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 Gary's birth date. Working below.

Where Gary sits

Six lines

Gary’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Gary

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gary

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Gary

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gary

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Gary

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gary

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Helena on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Gary’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 82° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 28.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Helena that night

Computed for 46.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Helena at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 8.0° of the exact zenith.

Of the 96 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 46.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −43.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Helena on any night.

The Moon, 83% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.

How unusual Gary's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Taurus · No Water 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Gary Cooper's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 1901, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Ox

Slow, steady, never quits.

Gary Cooper was born on May 7, 1901, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Gary Cooper's birth date, May 7, 1901, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Gary’s chart

Gary’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.2° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.4° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.8° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 2.2° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.3° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Taurus · 16°30′☉16°Moon in Capricorn · 1°05′☽1°Mercury in Taurus · 8°25′☿8°Venus in Taurus · 18°16′♀18°Mars in Leo · 28°52′♂28°Jupiter in Capricorn · 12°59′ · retrograde♃℞12°Saturn in Capricorn · 16°17′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Sagittarius · 16°03′ · retrograde♅℞16°Neptune in Gemini · 27°25′♆27°Pluto in Gemini · 16°28′♇16°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Gary’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto0.4° orb

    Gary’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune1.3° to 1.6° orb

    Gary’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn1.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus1.6° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.0° to 4.0° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn3.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter3.5° to 5.6° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter4.7° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 2.2° to 12.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Gary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 5°04′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAries 12°02′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLeo 21°36′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 19°22′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 29°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.3°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.9°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 2.9°

Gary’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Gary’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.4°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 2.2°

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Gary’s cards

Computed from May 7, 1901. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q93957 (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 Warner Bros., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gary Cooper at Wikipedia, garycooper.com, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gary Cooper.

Quick answers about Gary Cooper’s chart

What zodiac sign was Gary Cooper?
Gary Cooper was a Taurus: born May 7, 1901, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Gary Cooper's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 7, 1901 birth.
How tall was Gary Cooper?
Gary Cooper was 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Gary Cooper's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Gary Cooper's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Gary Cooper'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 was Gary Cooper's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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