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Nick Nolte

Nick Nolte (born February 8, 1941, Omaha, United States), aged 85, is an American actor (born 1941). Nolte is best known for Rich Man, Poor Man, 48 Hrs. and The Prince of Tides. Nolte's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Nick Nolte’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Nick Nolte’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, 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

Nick ranked 273rd in 1941, the year of this birth, with 440 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Nick’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

2

Soul Urge · closeness

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on N (5) and closes on K (2). 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

7 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Nick apart

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Nick, according to the stars

Core essence

Nick is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Nick is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Nick is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Nick needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Nick wants to be loved

Nick 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 Nick be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Nick is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Nick 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 Nick's birth date. Working below.

Where Nick sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Nick

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nick

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Nick

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nick

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Nick

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nick

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nick Nolte

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

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

The sky over Omaha that night

Computed for 41.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Omaha at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.3° above the horizon in Auriga.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.

From 41.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 90% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

How unusual Nick's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter

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

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Nick Nolte's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 8, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Nick Nolte was born on February 8, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Nick Nolte's birth date, February 8, 1941, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Nick’s chart

Nick’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.1° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.5° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.6° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.6° orbSun in Aquarius · 19°36′☉19°Moon in Cancer · 8°08′☽8°Mercury in Pisces · 7°30′☿7°Venus in Aquarius · 2°18′♀2°Mars in Sagittarius · 23°41′♂23°Jupiter in Taurus · 8°16′♃8°Saturn in Taurus · 8°44′♄8°Uranus in Taurus · 22°12′♅22°Neptune in Virgo · 27°15′ · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 2°50′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Nick’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 6.6° orb

    Nick’s feelings flow straight into their mind.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter0.2° to 1.3° orb

    Nick’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 0.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn0.6° to 1.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune3.2° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.9° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.4° to 5.7° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter5.4° to 6.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 26°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°47′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 12°19′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 7°31′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 1.9°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 2.2°

Nick’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Nick’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.3°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 1.5°

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

Nick’s cards

Computed from February 8, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188018 (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 Alain Zirah, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Nick Nolte at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nick Nolte.

Quick answers about Nick Nolte’s chart

How old is Nick Nolte?
Nick Nolte is 85 years old, born February 8, 1941 in Omaha, United States.
What zodiac sign is Nick Nolte?
Nick Nolte is an Aquarius: born February 8, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Nick Nolte's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1941 birth.
What is Nick Nolte's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Nick Nolte's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Nick Nolte's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Nick Nolte's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 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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