Nick Drake
Nick Drake (born Nicholas Rodney Drake; June 19, 1948, Yangon, Myanmar, 07:15; died 1974), was a British musician. Best-known releases include Pink Moon, Bryter Layter and Five Leaves Left.
Nick Drake’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Nick
Nick Drake’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
The SSA recorded 547 American boys named Nick in 1948: 294th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nick’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Nicholas Rodney Drake, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
The record
What sets Nick apart
Nick Drake was taught at Eagle House School and Marlborough College.
Nick Drake was 21 when the work began in 1969.
The record gives drug overdose as the cause, and Warwickshire as the resting place.
The family line: born to Molly Drake.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) and Boris Johnson (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Eagle House School, Marlborough College and Fitzwilliam College
- Instruments
- guitar, clarinet, upright piano and voice
- Working from
- 1969
- Cause of death
- drug overdose
- Buried at
- Warwickshire
- Wikipedia editions
- 47
What the chart says
Nick, according to the stars
Core essence
Nick is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Nick needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Nick feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Nick needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Nick wants to be loved
Nick wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Nick gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Nick creates
How Nick 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. Nick 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: Nick is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Nick is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
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. Working below.
Where Nick sits
Six lines
Nick’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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Nick Drake
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Yangon on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Yangon at 07:15, Nick Drake’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Yangon that night
Computed for 16.80°N, at the documented birth time.
Algenib stood nearest the zenith over Yangon at the birth hour, 78.4° above the horizon in Pegasus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
Yangon sits at 16.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -22° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Nicholas Rodney Drake
- Known as
- Nick Drake
- Born in
- Yangon, British rule in Myanmar
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Nick's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Peacemaker 天同, The Elder 天梁 in 寅
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart · Venus retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Nick Drake's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What Gemini means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Nick Drake was born on June 19, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Nick Drake's birth date, June 19, 1948, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Nick’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Nick Drake's timed chart: Mercury in the 1st house, Venus in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Nick Drake's timed chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune.
- Nick Drake combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Nick’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), 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
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 1.0° orb
Nick’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 1.2° orb
Nick’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
JupiteroppositionUranusseparating · 2.8° orb
Nick’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.0° orb
VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb
SunoppositionJupiterseparating · 4.0° orb
JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 4.6° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 4.9° orb
SaturnconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.8° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 7.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Nick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 19°08′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 23°39′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 15°08′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 19°15′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°21′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros square Mars 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Ascendant 0.7°
- Chiron trine Ascendant 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Moon 1.6°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°
Nick’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Nick’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.
- Sun quincunx Moon 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Moon biquintile Mercury 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.4°
- Moon quintile Mars 1.5°
- Moon quincunx Uranus 1.6°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.8°
Nick’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 5 | Mercury, Venus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 12 | Saturn, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 1 | Mars | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 1 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 2 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 6 | Jupiter | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Leo, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 3 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 1 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 1 | Sun, Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Nick’s cards
Computed from June 19, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q211588 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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.
The same Nick Drake at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nick Drake.
Quick answers about Nick Drake’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nick Drake?
- Nick Drake was a Gemini: born June 19, 1948, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
- What was Nick Drake's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 19, 1948 birth.
- What time was Nick Drake born?
- 07:15 local time in Yangon, Myanmar, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Nick Drake's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 07:15 birth time in Yangon, Myanmar (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What was Nick Drake's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Nick Drake's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 19°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Nick Drake's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 26°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nick Drake's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
