Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie (born September 21, 1981, Berkeley, United States, 04:10), aged 45, is an American television personality and actress.
Nicole Richie’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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Nicole Richie’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Nicole in the U.S.?
#383
US rank in 2025
~596,465
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Nicole’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Nicole apart
Kwame Nkrumah (1909) and Stephen King (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Nicole, according to the stars
Core essence
Nicole notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Nicole is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Nicole 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 Nicole needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Nicole wants to be loved
Nicole wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Nicole even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Nicole creates
How Nicole makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Nicole creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Nicole 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Nicole is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Nicole fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Nicole's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Nicole sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Nicole Richie's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Nicole Richie was born on September 21, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Nicole Richie's birth date, September 21, 1981, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Nicole’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Nicole Richie's timed chart: Venus in the 4th house, Mars in the 1st house and Uranus in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Nicole Richie's timed chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Nicole Richie combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Nicole’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
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MarssextileSaturnseparating · 1.1° orb
Nicole’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.1° orb
Nicole’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.2° orb
Nicole’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsextileUranusseparating · 1.4° orb
Nicole’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 2.3° orb
Nicole’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
VenussquareMarsapplying · 2.3° orb
Nicole’s affections grind against their drive.
MoontrineVenusapplying · 3.2° orb
Nicole’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MarssextileJupiterapplying · 3.7° orb
Nicole’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsquareSaturnapplying · 4.4° orb
Nicole’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupiterconjunctionSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb
Nicole’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 6.2° orb
Nicole’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupiterconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.4° orb
Nicole’s growth and depths act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Nicole’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 22°34′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Nicole building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 25°17′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Nicole caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosTaurus 22°32′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Nicole wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°39′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Nicole is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°37′ · House 4
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. Nicole 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.
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.2°
- Chiron square Ascendant 1.4°
- Eros square Ascendant 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.6°
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°).
Nicole’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Nicole is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Nicole’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Libra · Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.3°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.2°
Nicole’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.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 2 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Libra, house 3 | Sun | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 4 | Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 3 | Venus, Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 3 | Neptune | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Libra, house 3 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 1 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Libra, house 3 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 12 | Moon | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Nicole’s cards
Every card is computed from September 21, 1981, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Nicole’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232495, 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 Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nicole Richie at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Nicole Richie’s chart
- How old is Nicole Richie?
- Nicole Richie is 45 years old, born September 21, 1981 in Berkeley, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nicole Richie?
- Nicole Richie is a Virgo: born September 21, 1981, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster.
- What is Nicole Richie's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1981 birth.
- What time was Nicole Richie born?
- 04:10 local time in Berkeley, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Nicole Richie's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 04:10 birth time in Berkeley, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Nicole Richie's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the September 21, 1981 birth date.
- What is Nicole Richie's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 21, 1981 birth time.
- Where is Nicole Richie's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nicole Richie's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
