What zodiac sign was Kurt Cobain?

Kurt Cobain was a Pisces: born February 20, 1967, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.

What was Kurt Cobain's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1967 birth.

What time was Kurt Cobain born?

19:38 local time in Aberdeen, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What was Kurt Cobain's rising sign?

Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 19:38 birth time in Aberdeen, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

What was Kurt Cobain's Life Path number?

Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 20, 1967 birth date.

What was Kurt Cobain's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Pisces at 24°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 20, 1967 birth time.

Where was Kurt Cobain's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 6°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Kurt Cobain's dominant planet?

Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain (born February 20, 1967, Aberdeen, United States, 19:38; died 1994), was an American rock musician. Cobain is best remembered for Smells Like Teen Spirit and Nevermind.

Kurt Cobain’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Kurt Cobain’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#2271

US rank in 2025

~86,054

Americans share it since 1880

1964

its peak year

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Kurt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange

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What the chart says

Kurt, according to the stars

Core essence

Kurt feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Kurt is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Kurt is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Kurt needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Kurt wants to be loved

Kurt 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 Kurt, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Kurt creates

How Kurt 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. Kurt 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: Kurt is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Kurt is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Kurt runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Kurt's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Kurt sits

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Intimate circleWide network

Kurt

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Kurt

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive

Kurt

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Kurt

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary

Kurt

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Kurt

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Kurt’s birth-sky starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 88° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 39.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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Kurt Cobain in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Kurt Cobain's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Fire Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Kurt Cobain's birth date, February 20, 1967, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Kurt’s chart

Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Kurt Cobain's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Venus in the 7th house, Saturn in the 7th house, Uranus in the 1st house and Pluto in the 1st house.
The tightest major aspect in Kurt Cobain's timed chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
Kurt Cobain combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.

Kurt’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantVirgo

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

Aspects, tightest first

SuntrineMarsseparating · 0.0° orb
Kurt’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
VenustrineJupiterseparating · 0.9° orb
Kurt’s affections flow straight into their growth.
UranussextileNeptuneseparating · 1.1° orb
Kurt’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryoppositionPlutoapplying · 1.3° orb
Kurt’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
JupitertrineNeptuneapplying · 1.3° orb
Kurt’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 2.2° orb
Kurt’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenustrineNeptuneseparating · 2.2° orb
Kurt’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
JupitersextileUranusapplying · 2.4° orb
Kurt’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 3.0° orb
Kurt’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenusoppositionUranusseparating · 3.3° orb
Kurt’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 3.5° orb
Kurt’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 4.4° orb
Kurt’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.6° orb
Kurt’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryoppositionUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
Kurt’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 5.1° orb
Kurt’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
SaturnoppositionUranusseparating · 5.5° orb
Kurt’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
MercurytrineNeptuneapplying · 5.9° orb
Kurt’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
MarssquareJupiterseparating · 6.1° orb
Kurt’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 6.8° orb
Kurt’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire0 of 10
Earth2 of 10
Air0 of 10
Water8 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed2 of 10
Mutable6 of 10

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

Kurt’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.

⚷ ChironPisces 24°17′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Kurt absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresGemini 23°33′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Kurt feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 12°41′ · House 6
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. Kurt is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 28°28′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Kurt is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°15′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Kurt carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Chiron trine Neptune 0.1°
Ceres square Ascendant 0.2°
Ceres square Uranus 0.3°
Hygiea square Saturn 0.3°
Chiron opposition Ascendant 0.9°
Chiron opposition Uranus 1.0°
Chiron trine Jupiter 1.4°
Hygiea square Venus 1.9°
Chiron conjunction Venus 2.3°

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°).

Kurt’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ♆ Neptune13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 6 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Uranus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus8 pts
angular in the first house; 6 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Kurt is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Kurt’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
Kite · Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Kite · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

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.

Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
Venus biquintile Mars 0.8°
Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.7°

Kurt’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Virgo	Mercury in Pisces, house 7	Uranus, Pluto	self, body, how you arrive
2	Libra	Venus in Pisces, house 7	empty	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Scorpio	Pluto in Virgo, house 1	Mars, Neptune	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Cancer, house 11	empty	home, family, roots
5	Capricorn	Saturn in Pisces, house 7	empty	creativity, romance, play
6	Aquarius	Uranus in Virgo, house 1	empty	work, habits, health
7	Pisces	Neptune in Scorpio, house 3	Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Aries	Mars in Scorpio, house 3	empty	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Taurus	Venus in Pisces, house 7	empty	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Gemini	Mercury in Pisces, house 7	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Cancer	Moon in Cancer, house 11	Moon, Jupiter	friends, community, the future
12	Leo	Sun in Pisces, house 7	empty	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Kurt’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hermit

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The Evergreen Seeker

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

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BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Kurt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8446, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 P.B. Rage from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kurt Cobain at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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Quick answers about Kurt Cobain’s chart

What zodiac sign was Kurt Cobain?: Kurt Cobain was a Pisces: born February 20, 1967, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
What was Kurt Cobain's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1967 birth.
What time was Kurt Cobain born?: 19:38 local time in Aberdeen, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Kurt Cobain's rising sign?: Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 19:38 birth time in Aberdeen, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Kurt Cobain's Life Path number?: Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 20, 1967 birth date.
What was Kurt Cobain's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Pisces at 24°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 20, 1967 birth time.
Where was Kurt Cobain's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 6°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Kurt Cobain's dominant planet?: Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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Kurt, according to the stars

Core essence

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How Kurt wants to be loved

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Triggers

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What stands out in Kurt’s chart

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Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Kurt’s dominant planets

Configurations in Kurt’s chart

Minor aspects

Kurt’s houses

Kurt’s family here

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