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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Nat’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Nat sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. 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.

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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Nat’s chart

Nat’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Nat King Cole, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Nat’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.0° to 2.7° orb

    Nat’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquarePluto3.5° to 4.3° orb

    Nat’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.7° orb

    Nat’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableUranustrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb

    Nat’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb

    Nat’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.8° to 6.9° orb

    Nat’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Nat may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

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

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Nat is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

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

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Nat is read as drawn to people who have built something.

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

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Nat is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Nat is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Nat’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. 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

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Nat is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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 Nat’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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nat King Cole, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Nat’s cards

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The Fool

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

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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

No birth time is on public record for Nat King Cole, 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

Nat’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q137042, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat.
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 time was Nat King Cole 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 was Nat King Cole's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the March 17, 1919 birth date.
What was Nat King Cole's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 17, 1919 birth date.
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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