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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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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 1880

2003

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Nicolas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Nicolas sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Nicolas

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nicolas

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

PrivateExpressive
Nicolas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nicolas

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

PracticalVisionary
Nicolas

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nicolas

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Nicolas Cage's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Water Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Nicolas Cage was born on January 7, 1964, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Nicolas Cage's birth date, January 7, 1964, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Nicolas’s chart

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.5° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 0.7° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.9° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.2° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Capricorn · 16°17′ · house 2☉16°Moon in Libra · 26°13′ · house 11☽26°Mercury in Capricorn · 9°23′ · house 2 · retrograde☿℞9°Venus in Aquarius · 18°15′ · house 3♀18°Mars in Capricorn · 25°33′ · house 2♂25°Jupiter in Aries · 11°23′ · house 5♃11°Saturn in Aquarius · 21°06′ · house 3♄21°Uranus in Virgo · 9°50′ · house 10 · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Scorpio · 17°20′ · house 12♆17°Pluto in Virgo · 14°07′ · house 10 · retrograde♇℞14°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSgr 24°13′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCGem 24°13′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLib 11°23′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAri 11°23′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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AscendantSagittarius
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

    Nicolas’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 2.0° orb

    Nicolas’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • SuntrinePlutoseparating · 2.2° orb

    Nicolas’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb

    Nicolas’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb

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

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb

    Nicolas’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.3° orb

    Nicolas’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MercurytrinePlutoseparating · 4.7° orb

    Nicolas’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • SunsquareJupiterseparating · 4.9° orb

    Nicolas’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • MoontrineSaturnseparating · 5.1° orb

    Nicolas’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • SuntrineUranusseparating · 6.4° orb

    Nicolas’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.9° orb

    Nicolas’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 11°16′ · House 4

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Nicolas absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°35′ · House 1

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Nicolas is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 2°26′ · House 4

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Nicolas is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°04′ · House 6

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Nicolas is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°11′ · House 12

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Nicolas is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • 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°

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°).

Nicolas’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    disposes Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Nicolas is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Nicolas’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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 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.

  • 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

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1SagittariusJupiter in Aries, house 5emptyself, body, how you arrive
2CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 3Sun, Mercury, Marsmoney, possessions, self-worth
3AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 10Venus, Saturnmind, siblings, the local world
4PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 12emptyhome, family, roots
5AriesMars in Capricorn, house 2Jupitercreativity, romance, play
6TaurusVenus in Aquarius, house 3emptywork, habits, health
7GeminiMercury in Capricorn, house 2emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8CancerMoon in Libra, house 11emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9LeoSun in Capricorn, house 2emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10VirgoMercury in Capricorn, house 2Uranus, Plutocareer, reputation, public life
11LibraVenus in Aquarius, house 3Moonfriends, community, the future
12ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 10Neptunethe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Nicolas’s family here

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 with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.

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Nicolas’s cards

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The Evergreen Strategist

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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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 data comes from

Nicolas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42869, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Moritz Barcelona from Barcelona, Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
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 from the January 7, 1964 birth date.
What is Nicolas Cage's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 11°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 7, 1964 birth time.
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.

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