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Nina Dobrev

Nina Dobrev (born January 9, 1989, Sofia, Bulgaria), aged 37, is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. Dobrev is best known for Flatliners, Fam and xXx Return of Xander Cage.

Nina Dobrev’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Nina Dobrev’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#324

US rank in 2025

~134,038

Americans share it since 1880

1980

its peak year

In 1989, 1,172 American girls and 10 boys were registered Nina — 234th among girls and 5,072nd among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Nina’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on N (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Nina’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1988, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Nina apart

Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982) and Jimmy Page (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Sport
aesthetic group gymnastics
Citizenship
Canada and Bulgaria
Languages
French, English and Bulgarian

What the chart says

Nina, according to the stars

Core essence

Nina is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Nina 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, Nina needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Nina needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Nina wants to be loved

Nina wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Nina and watch them fall for you again.

How Nina creates

How Nina makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Nina creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Nina is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Nina 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 Nina leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

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

Where Nina sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Nina

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nina

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

PrivateExpressive
Nina

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nina

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Nina

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nina

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nina Dobrev

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sofia 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 Sofia that night

Computed for 42.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Sofia at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 7.1° of the exact zenith.

Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Sofia sits at 42.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Sofia at all: they sit past the −47.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Sofia, Bulgaria
Lives in
West Hollywood · Atlanta

Wikidata records West Hollywood and Atlanta as Nina Dobrev's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nina Dobrev: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Nina's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Capricorn · 1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl

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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Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Nina Dobrev's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 9, 1989, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Dragon

Born for the big room.

Nina Dobrev was born on January 9, 1989, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Nina Dobrev's birth date, January 9, 1989, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Nina’s chart

Nina’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.2° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 3.7° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.7° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.9° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.3° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.3° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun in Capricorn · 19°08′☉19°Moon in Aquarius · 10°27′☽10°Mercury in Aquarius · 8°14′☿8°Venus in Sagittarius · 28°19′♀28°Mars in Aries · 24°36′♂24°Jupiter in Taurus · 26°18′ · retrograde♃℞26°Saturn in Capricorn · 6°35′♄6°Uranus in Capricorn · 2°15′♅2°Neptune in Capricorn · 10°14′♆10°Pluto in Scorpio · 14°46′♇14°

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.3° to 4.5° orb

    Nina’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableVenustrineMars3.4° to 4.1° orb

    Nina’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb

    Nina’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunsextilePluto3.9° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars5.2° to 5.7° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune8.0° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysquarePlutoorb from 6.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineJupiterorb from 6.6° to 7.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 3°19′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 27°48′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 26°40′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 27°59′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 26°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.4°
  • Ceres square Venus 0.5°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.1°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.6°
  • Eros trine Venus 1.7°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.7°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.1°

Nina’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Nina’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneThree 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 Uranus 0.0°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.0°

More people like Nina

Other actors

Born in Bulgaria

  • Elias CanettiBulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
  • DaraBulgarian singer-songwriter (born 1998)

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

Nina’s cards

Computed from January 9, 1989. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nina’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q183439 (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 JoshPopov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Nina Dobrev at Wikipedia, lnk.bio, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nina Dobrev.

Quick answers about Nina Dobrev’s chart

How old is Nina Dobrev?
Nina Dobrev is 37 years old, born January 9, 1989 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
What zodiac sign is Nina Dobrev?
Nina Dobrev is a Capricorn: born January 9, 1989, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Nina Dobrev's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 9, 1989 birth.
How tall is Nina Dobrev?
Nina Dobrev is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Nina Dobrev's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Nina Dobrev's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Nina Dobrev's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Nina Dobrev's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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