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Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole (born Nathaniel Adams Coles; March 17, 1919, Montgomery, United States; died 1965), was an American singer and jazz pianist. Best-known releases include Cole Español, Love Is the Thing and The Magic of Christmas. Cole's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Latin Grammy Hall of Fame.

Nat King Cole’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Nat King Cole’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

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outside the current top list

~2,162

Americans share it since 1880

1915

its peak year

In 1919, 52 American boys were registered Nat — 934th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Nat’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Nathaniel Adams Coles, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

2

Soul Urge · closeness

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on N (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Nat’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1919, 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 Nat apart

Kurt Russell (1951) and Hozier (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Nat, according to the stars

Core essence

Nat feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Nat 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, Nat cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Nat needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Nat wants to be loved

Nat wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Nat creates

How Nat makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Nat creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Nat 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Nat is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Nat gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Nat's birth date. Working below.

Where Nat sits

Six lines

Nat’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Nat

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nat

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

PrivateExpressive
Nat

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nat

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

PracticalVisionary
Nat

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nat

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nat King Cole

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Montgomery on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Nat’s birth-night reference starAsellus Australiswarm orange · CancerAsellus Australis, in Cancer. A warm orange star, 75.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Asellus Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 18.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Montgomery that night

Computed for 32.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Montgomery was Asellus Australis, in Cancer, 75.8° up.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Montgomery sits at 32.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −57.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Montgomery on any night.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 98% lit at full moon.

The name and the places

Born as
Nathaniel Adams Coles
Known as
Nat King Cole
Born in
Montgomery, United States

The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 1965.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nat King Cole: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Nat's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Jupiter · A bowl chart

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.

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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Nat King Cole's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 17, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Earth Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Nat King Cole was born on March 17, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Nat King Cole's birth date, March 17, 1919, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Nat’s chart

Nat’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.6° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.2° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.3° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.8° orbSun in Pisces · 26°06′☉26°Moon in Libra · 8°21′☽8°Mercury in Aries · 13°50′☿13°Venus in Aries · 23°01′♀23°Mars in Aries · 8°27′♂8°Jupiter in Cancer · 6°08′♃6°Saturn in Leo · 22°32′ · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Aquarius · 29°17′♅29°Neptune in Leo · 6°48′ · retrograde♆℞6°Pluto in Cancer · 4°33′ · retrograde♇℞4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Nat’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 5.8° orb

    Nat’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.3° to 2.1° orb

    Nat’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.0° to 2.7° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto3.5° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.7° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 2°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 1°06′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 13°06′ (moves 0.51° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 0°60′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 5°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.3°
  • Eros square Mercury 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.8°
  • Chiron square Pluto 2.0°

Nat’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Nat’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.

  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.4°

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Nat’s cards

Computed from March 17, 1919. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nat’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q137042 (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 William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Nat King Cole at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Nat King Cole.

Quick answers about Nat King Cole’s chart

What zodiac sign was Nat King Cole?
Nat King Cole was a Pisces: born March 17, 1919, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Nat King Cole's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 17, 1919 birth.
What was Nat King Cole's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Nat King Cole's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Nat King Cole's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Nat King Cole's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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