Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer (born December 30, 1957, New York City, United States), aged 68, is an American journalist (1957-). Lauer's honours include Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Morning Program.
Matt Lauer’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Matt Lauer’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Matt in the U.S.?
#3818
US rank in 2025
~23,892
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Matt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Matt apart
LeBron James (1984) and Tiger Woods (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Matt, according to the stars
Core essence
Matt is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Matt is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Matt wants to be loved
Matt wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Matt be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Matt creates
How Matt makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Matt creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Matt is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Matt is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Matt leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Matt has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Matt's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Matt 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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Matt Lauer at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Matt Lauer's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 30, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Matt Lauer was born on December 30, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Matt Lauer's birth date, December 30, 1957, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Matt’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Matt Lauer's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Matt Lauer combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Matt’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Matt Lauer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
Matt’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
Matt’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquarePluto2.8° to 3.5° orb
Matt’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
Matt’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMercurytrinePluto3.8° to 4.7° orb
Matt’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb
Matt’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.9° to 4.2° orb
Matt’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenussextileSaturn4.3° to 4.5° orb
Matt’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineUranus5.2° to 5.9° orb
Matt’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb
Matt’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb
Matt’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Matt’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 14°46′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Matt making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 26°16′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
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. Matt is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosSagittarius 23°42′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Matt attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAries 9°37′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Matt feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 24°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Matt is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron conjunction Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.2°
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°).
Matt’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Matt is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Matt’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Matt Lauer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Matt’s cards
Every card is computed from December 30, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Matt Lauer, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Matt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1100609, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Matt Lauer at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Matt Lauer.
Quick answers about Matt Lauer’s chart
- How old is Matt Lauer?
- Matt Lauer is 68 years old, born December 30, 1957 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Matt Lauer?
- Matt Lauer is a Capricorn: born December 30, 1957, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Matt Lauer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 30, 1957 birth.
- What time was Matt Lauer born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Matt Lauer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the December 30, 1957 birth date.
- What is Matt Lauer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 30, 1957 birth date.
- Where is Matt Lauer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Matt Lauer's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
