Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen
Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen (born Julian Fernando Casablancas; August 23, 1978, New York City, United States), aged 48, is an American singer. Best-known releases include Phrazes for the Young.
Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen’s zodiac sign is Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Julian
How common is the name Julian in the U.S.?
#25
US rank in 2025
~268,291
Americans share it since 1880
2017
its peak year
In 1978, 643 American boys and 19 girls were registered Julian — 293rd among boys and 3,836th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Julian’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Julian Fernando Casablancas, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
11
Soul Urge · insight
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Julian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Julian apart
The schooling ran through Dwight School and Lycée français de New York.
Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen was 20 when the work began in 1998.
On the family side, Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen was born to Jeanette Christiansen and John Casablancas Ubach.
On Wikipedia the categories read Alumni of Institut Le Rosey, Cult Records artists and Lycée Français de New York alumni.
Kobe Bryant shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Dwight School, Lycée français de New York and Five Towns College
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 1998
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 38
What the chart says
Julian, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Julian is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Julian needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Julian wants to be loved
Julian wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Julian gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Julian creates
How Julian makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Julian creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Julian is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Julian is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Julian fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Julian's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
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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 Vega, in Lyra, 84.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon down and 65% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Julian Fernando Casablancas
- Known as
- Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen
- Born in
- New York City, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Julian's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Leo or Virgo Sun
Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen was born on August 23, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen's birth date, August 23, 1978, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Julian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
Julian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Taurus 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
stableVenussextileNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
Julian’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb
Julian’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.8° to 1.7° orb
Julian’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.1° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 2.5° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 4.8° to 17.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Julian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°44′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 10°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 25°21′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 21°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 24°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres square Mars 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.7°
Julian’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Julian’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
Born the same day as Julian
Kobe Bryant was born on August 23, 1978 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New York City, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Also born on August 23
- Kobe Bryant1978
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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- ArcaVenezuelan singer, songwriter, DJ, producer and model
Famous people with Life Path 2
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Julian’s cards
Computed from August 23, 1978. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Julian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q350511 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen at Wikipedia, thestrokes.com, IMDb, X, 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 Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen.
Quick answers about Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen’s chart
- How old is Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen?
- Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen is 48 years old, born August 23, 1978 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen?
- Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1978 birth.
- What is Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
