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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Leonard
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
In 1934, 3,836 American boys and 14 girls were registered Leonard — 53rd among boys and 2,241st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leonard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Leonard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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 Leonard apart
Songs from a Room, Various Positions and Old Ideas. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through Westmount High School and Camp B'nai Brith.
Leonard Cohen was 22 when the work began in 1956.
The record gives falling as the cause, and Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery as the resting place.
Leonard Cohen was born to Marsha Klonitsky and Nathan Bernard Cohen, married Suzanne Elrod and raised 2 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read Canadian buskers, Best Original Song Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners and Accidental deaths in California.
David J. Thouless 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.
- Known for
- Songs from a Room, Various Positions and Old Ideas
- Educated at
- Westmount High School, Camp B'nai Brith and Pripstein's Camp Mishmar
- Instruments
- guitar, voice and piano
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2008), Songwriters Hall of Fame (2010) and Canada's Walk of Fame (2018)
- Nominated for
- Juno Fan Choice and Juno Award for Video of the Year
- Working from
- 1956
- Cause of death
- falling
- Buried at
- Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 131
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. Working below.
Where Leonard sits
Six lines
Leonard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Leonard Cohen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Montreal on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Montreal at 06:45, Leonard Cohen’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Montreal that night
Computed for 45.50°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Montreal was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 88.9° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Montreal at all: they sit past the −44.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -1° below the horizon, Moon down and 96% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Montreal, Canada
- Lived in
- Westmount · Montreal
Wikidata records Westmount and Montreal as Leonard Cohen's home, Montreal among them.
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2016.
Montreal is both the birthplace and the home on record. Shared Places reads Montreal as supportive for this chart: 66 of 100, 62nd of 171 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is London, United Kingdom, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Leonard's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Purple Star 紫微 in 午
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Pluto · 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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Leonard Cohen's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 3.3° orb
MercurysextileMarsseparating · 3.5° orb
JupiteroppositionUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
UranussquarePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb
MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 5.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 9°55′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 18°26′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°02′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 22°20′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°09′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Leonard’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Leonard’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Montreal, at 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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Other Evergreen Healers
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Famous people with Life Path 2
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Leonard’s cards
Computed from September 21, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Leonard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1276 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Leonard Cohen at Wikipedia, leonardcohen.com, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Leonard Cohen.
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.
- 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.
- What was Leonard Cohen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 9°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
