Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage (born Nicholas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964, Long Beach, United States, 05:30), aged 62, is an American actor. Cage is best known for City of Angels, Face/Off and Mandy. Cage's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor.
Nicolas Cage’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Nicolas
Nicolas Cage’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Nicolas in the U.S.?
#177
US rank in 2025
~101,764
Americans share it since 1882
2003
its peak year
Nicolas ranked 678th in 1964, the year of this birth, with 130 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nicolas’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Nicholas Kim Coppola, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
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Soul Urge · closeness
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Personality · self-directed
The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nicolas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1963, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Nicolas apart
The shelf Nicolas Cage is read from: Kick-Ass, Matchstick Men and City of Angels.
Justin-Siena High School and Beverly Hills High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1981, at 17.
On the family side, Nicolas Cage was born to Joy Vogelsang and August Coppola, married Patricia Arquette and Riko Shibata and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Nicolas Cage under Male actors from Long Beach, California, Coppola family and American comic collectors.
The same date carries Christian Louboutin. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Kick-Ass, Matchstick Men and City of Angels
- Educated at
- Justin-Siena High School, Beverly Hills High School and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1996), Goldene Kamera (2007) and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor (1995)
- Nominated for
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1981
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 121
What the chart says
Nicolas, according to the stars
Core essence
Nicolas is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Nicolas is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Nicolas 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 Nicolas 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 Nicolas wants to be loved
Nicolas 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 Nicolas be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Nicolas creates
How Nicolas 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. Nicolas 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: Nicolas is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Nicolas is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Nicolas leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Nicolas does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Nicolas's birth date. Working below.
Where Nicolas sits
Six lines
Nicolas’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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Nicolas Cage
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Long Beach on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Long Beach at 05:30, Nicolas Cage’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Long Beach that night
Computed for 33.77°N, at the documented birth time.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Long Beach at the birth hour, 84.6° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 33.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Long Beach at all: they sit past the −56.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon up and 42% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Nicholas Kim Coppola
- Known as
- Nicolas Cage
- Born in
- Long Beach, United States
- Lives in
- Las Vegas · Bel Air
Wikidata records Las Vegas and Bel Air as Nicolas Cage's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Long Beach, Shared Places reads Las Vegas as strongly supportive for this chart: 93 of 100, 7th of 161 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Guadalajara, Mexico, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Nicolas's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Lunar Star 太陰 in 酉
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Capricorn
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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Nicolas Cage's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Nicolas Cage was born on January 7, 1964, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Nicolas Cage's birth date, January 7, 1964, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Nicolas’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Nicolas Cage's timed chart: Uranus in the 10th house and Pluto in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Nicolas Cage's timed chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Nicolas Cage combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Nicolas’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), 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
MercurytrineUranusseparating · 0.5° orb
Nicolas’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 0.7° orb
Nicolas’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 0.9° orb
Nicolas’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsextileNeptuneapplying · 1.1° orb
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 2.0° orb
SuntrinePlutoseparating · 2.2° orb
VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb
SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.3° orb
MercurytrinePlutoseparating · 4.7° orb
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 4.9° orb
MoontrineSaturnseparating · 5.1° orb
SuntrineUranusseparating · 6.4° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Nicolas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironPisces 11°16′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°35′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 2°26′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°04′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°11′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Uranus 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.8°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.8°
Nicolas’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Nicolas’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Moon quintile Mercury 1.2°
- Moon semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
Nicolas’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aries, house 5 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aquarius, house 3 | Sun, Mercury, Mars | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 10 | Venus, Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 2 | Jupiter | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 3 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Cancer | Moon in Libra, house 11 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 2 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 2 | Uranus, Pluto | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 3 | Moon | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 10 | Neptune | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 relatives of Nicolas Cage also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Nicolas
Christian Louboutin was born on January 7, 1964 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Long Beach, at 33.8°N, nothing below −56.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Nicolas’s cards
Computed from January 7, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nicolas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42869 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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.
Portrait by Moritz Barcelona from Barcelona, Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nicolas Cage 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 Nicolas Cage.
Quick answers about Nicolas Cage’s chart
- How old is Nicolas Cage?
- Nicolas Cage is 62 years old, born January 7, 1964 in Long Beach, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nicolas Cage?
- Nicolas Cage is a Capricorn: born January 7, 1964, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What is Nicolas Cage's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 7, 1964 birth.
- What time was Nicolas Cage born?
- 05:30 local time in Long Beach, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Nicolas Cage's rising sign?
- Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 05:30 birth time in Long Beach, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Nicolas Cage?
- Nicolas Cage is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Nicolas Cage's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nicolas Cage's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Nicolas Cage's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nicolas Cage's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
