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Nicky Oppenheimer

Nicky Oppenheimer (born June 8, 1945, Johannesburg, South Africa), aged 81, is a South African businessman.

Nicky Oppenheimer’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Nicky Oppenheimer’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#9456

US rank in 2025

~9,442

Americans share it since 1917

1959

its peak year

In 1945, 79 American boys and 14 girls were registered Nicky — 682nd among boys and 2,421st among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Nicky’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on N (5) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Nicky’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Lilac · Forest

The record

What sets Nicky apart

Tim Berners-Lee (1955) and Kanye West (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Nicky, according to the stars

Core essence

Nicky 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. Nicky needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Nicky wants to be loved

Nicky wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Nicky is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Nicky creates

How Nicky 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. Nicky 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: Nicky 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Nicky is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Nicky 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 Nicky's birth date. Working below.

Where Nicky sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Nicky

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nicky

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

PrivateExpressive
Nicky

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nicky

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

PracticalVisionary
Nicky

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nicky

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

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

Nicky’s birth-night reference starMenkentwarm orange · CentaurusMenkent, in Centaurus. A warm orange star, 80.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkent →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 44.2° 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 Johannesburg that night

Computed for 26.20°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkent stood nearest the zenith over Johannesburg at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.1° above the horizon in Centaurus.

Of the 70 catalog stars above the horizon, Canopus was the brightest.

Johannesburg sits at 26.2°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.

How unusual Nicky's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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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Nicky Oppenheimer in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Nicky Oppenheimer's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Nicky Oppenheimer was born on June 8, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Nicky Oppenheimer's birth date, June 8, 1945, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Nicky’s chart

Nicky’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.2° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.8° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.4° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.8° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.9° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 5° orbSun in Gemini · 17°14′☉17°Moon in Taurus · 23°07′☽23°Mercury in Gemini · 8°04′☿8°Venus in Taurus · 2°42′♀2°Mars in Aries · 27°43′♂27°Jupiter in Virgo · 18°25′♃18°Saturn in Cancer · 10°45′♄10°Uranus in Gemini · 13°29′♅13°Neptune in Libra · 3°40′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Leo · 8°25′♇8°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Nicky’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.8° to 1.6° orb

    Nicky’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.3° to 4.2° orb

    Nicky’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune3.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.4° to 6.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.0° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.3° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 3.2° to 17.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 27°09′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 24°45′

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 11°13′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Saturn 0.5°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 1.2°
  • Eros square Uranus 2.3°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 3.0°

Nicky’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Nicky’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.8°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.0°
  • Mars quintile Saturn 1.0°

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Nicky’s cards

Computed from June 8, 1945. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nicky’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1340936 (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.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nicky Oppenheimer.

Quick answers about Nicky Oppenheimer’s chart

How old is Nicky Oppenheimer?
Nicky Oppenheimer is 81 years old, born June 8, 1945 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
What zodiac sign is Nicky Oppenheimer?
Nicky Oppenheimer is a Gemini: born June 8, 1945, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Nicky Oppenheimer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1945 birth.
What is Nicky Oppenheimer's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Nicky Oppenheimer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Nicky Oppenheimer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Nicky Oppenheimer's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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