Nick Cave
Nick Cave (born Nicholas Edward Cave; September 22, 1957, Warracknabeal, Australia), aged 69, is an Australian musician and singer. Cave is best known for And the Ass Saw the Angel, The Death of Bunny Munro and The Sick Bag Song. Cave's honours include ARIA Award for Single of the Year, ARIA Award for Best Male Artist and ARIA Award for Best Pop Release.
Nick Cave’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Nick Cave’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Nick in the U.S.?
#1447
US rank in 2025
~50,589
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Nick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Nick, according to the stars
Core essence
Nick 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 Nick is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Nick wants to be loved
Nick wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Nick even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Nick creates
How Nick makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Nick creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Nick 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 8 is the powerhouse. Nick is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Nick channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Nick's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Nick sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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Nick Cave at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Nick Cave's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 22, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. 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.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Nick Cave was born on September 22, 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 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Nick Cave's birth date, September 22, 1957, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Nick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nick Cave's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nick Cave combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Nick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Nick Cave, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
Nick’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb
Nick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.1° to 0.3° orb
Nick’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareUranus0.6° to 1.7° orb
Nick’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileUranus1.0° to 1.2° orb
Nick’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.3° orb
Nick’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.0° orb
Nick’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.6° to 3.1° orb
Nick’s mind grinds against their discipline.
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Nick’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°44′ (moves 0.03° 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 Nick making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 17°27′ (moves 0.31° 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. Nick is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosLibra 11°18′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Nick is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 16°22′ (moves 0.18° 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 Nick feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°07′ (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. Nick 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.
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.1°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.4°
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°).
Nick’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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Nick 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 Nick’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nick Cave, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Nick’s cards
Every card is computed from September 22, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Nick Cave, 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
Nick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192668, 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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nick Cave at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Nick Cave’s chart
- How old is Nick Cave?
- Nick Cave is 69 years old, born September 22, 1957 in Warracknabeal, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Nick Cave?
- Nick Cave is a Virgo: born September 22, 1957, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Nick Cave's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 22, 1957 birth.
- What time was Nick Cave 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 Nick Cave's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 22, 1957 birth date.
- What is Nick Cave's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 22, 1957 birth date.
- Where is Nick Cave's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nick Cave's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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