Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen (born September 21, 1934, Montreal, Canada, 06:45; died 2016), was a Canadian singer, songwriter and poet. Cohen is best remembered for Beautiful Losers, Various Positions and Old Ideas. Cohen's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Glenn Gould Prize.
Leonard Cohen’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Leonard Cohen’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Leonard in the U.S.?
#637
US rank in 2025
~295,746
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Leonard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Leonard, according to the stars
Core essence
Leonard 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 Leonard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Leonard is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Leonard needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Leonard wants to be loved
Leonard wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Leonard and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Leonard creates
How Leonard 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. Leonard 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: Leonard is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Leonard 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Leonard 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 Leonard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Leonard sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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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Virgo Sun
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Leonard Cohen's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time. 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.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Leonard Cohen was born on September 21, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Leonard Cohen's birth date, September 21, 1934, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Leonard’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Leonard Cohen's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Moon in the 7th house, Venus in the 1st house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Leonard Cohen's timed chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Leonard Cohen combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Leonard’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.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenusconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 0.0° orb
Leonard’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 0.0° orb
Leonard’s growth grinds against their depths.
SunsextilePlutoseparating · 2.0° orb
Leonard’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsextileUranusseparating · 3.3° orb
Leonard’s feelings open doors for their need for freedom.
JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 3.3° orb
Leonard’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurysextileMarsseparating · 3.5° orb
Leonard’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupiteroppositionUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
Leonard’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
UranussquarePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb
Leonard’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 5.3° orb
Leonard’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Leonard’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 9°55′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Leonard turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCancer 18°26′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Leonard is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosVirgo 24°02′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Leonard is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 22°20′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Leonard is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°09′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Leonard is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.2°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron square Venus 2.8°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.8°
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°).
Leonard’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Leonard 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 Leonard’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mercury 1.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.9°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.9°
Leonard’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 |
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| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Libra, house 2 | Sun, Venus, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 1 | Mercury, Jupiter | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 11 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 2 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 6 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 9 | Saturn | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 1 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 1 | Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Libra, house 2 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 7 | Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 1 | Mars | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Leonard
David J. Thouless was born on September 21, 1934 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Leonard’s cards
Every card is computed from September 21, 1934, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Leonard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1276, 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 Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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Quick answers about Leonard Cohen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leonard Cohen?
- Leonard Cohen was a Virgo: born September 21, 1934, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dog.
- What was Leonard Cohen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1934 birth.
- What time was Leonard Cohen born?
- 06:45 local time in Montreal, Canada, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Leonard Cohen's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 06:45 birth time in Montreal, Canada (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall was Leonard Cohen?
- Leonard Cohen was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Leonard Cohen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the September 21, 1934 birth date.
- What was Leonard Cohen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 9°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 21, 1934 birth time.
- Where was Leonard Cohen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leonard Cohen's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
