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Nolan Gould

Nolan Gould (born October 28, 1998, Columbus, United States), aged 28, is an American actor. Gould is best known for Modern Family.

Nolan Gould’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Nolan Gould’s AsterNym identity

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Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#65

US rank in 2025

~136,061

Americans share it since 1881

2015

its peak year

The SSA recorded 1,365 American boys named Nolan in 1998: 233rd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Nolan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

7

Soul Urge · understanding

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on N (5) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Nolan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Crimson · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1998, 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 Nolan apart

The record Nolan Gould is measured by: Modern Family.

Nolan Gould was 9 when the work began in 2007.

Wikipedia files Nolan Gould under Mensans, Male actors from Columbus, Georgia and American male television actors.

Stephen Nedoroscik shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
Modern Family
Working from
2007
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Nolan, according to the stars

Core essence

Nolan does not do surface. The core of Nolan is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Nolan is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Nolan 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 Nolan 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 Nolan wants to be loved

Nolan 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 Nolan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Nolan creates

How Nolan 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. Nolan 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: Nolan is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Nolan is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Nolan channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Nolan's birth date. Working below.

Where Nolan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Nolan

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nolan

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Nolan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nolan

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Nolan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nolan

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nolan Gould

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

Computed for 32.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Columbus was Scheat, in Pegasus, 84.6° up.

Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Columbus sits at 32.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Columbus at all: they sit past the −57.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 56% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Nolan's chart is

Chart pattern score

50 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Neptune · 2 planets at a critical degree

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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Nolan Gould at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Nolan Gould's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Tiger

Courage before caution.

Nolan Gould was born on October 28, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

Nolan Gould's birth date, October 28, 1998, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Nolan’s chart

Nolan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.3° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 2.6° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 3° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.8° orbSun in Scorpio · 5°04′☉5°Moon in Aquarius · 7°41′☽7°Mercury in Scorpio · 24°38′☿24°Venus in Scorpio · 4°42′♀4°Mars in Virgo · 12°47′♂12°Jupiter in Pisces · 18°35′ · retrograde♃℞18°Saturn in Aries · 29°46′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Aquarius · 8°51′♅8°Neptune in Capricorn · 29°28′♆29°Pluto in Sagittarius · 6°42′♇6°

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

  • stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.1° to 7.6° orb

    Nolan’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus0.2° to 0.5° orb

    Nolan’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.3° orb

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

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus3.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.3° to 5.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.6° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn4.8° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune5.1° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter5.3° to 6.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.5° to 6.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 21°04′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 12°29′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 3°03′ (moves 0.53° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 24°39′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 5°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.0°
  • Ceres square Mars 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.0°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.5°

Nolan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Nolan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Venus, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.9°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 2.0°

Born the same day as Nolan

Stephen Nedoroscik was born on October 28, 1998 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 32.5°N, the sky above Columbus stops at −57.5° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Nolan’s cards

Computed from October 28, 1998. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nolan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q552085 (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 Jesse Kornblum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nolan Gould.

Quick answers about Nolan Gould’s chart

How old is Nolan Gould?
Nolan Gould is 28 years old, born October 28, 1998 in Columbus, United States.
What zodiac sign is Nolan Gould?
Nolan Gould is a Scorpio: born October 28, 1998, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Nolan Gould's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1998 birth.
What is Nolan Gould's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Nolan Gould's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Nolan Gould's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Nolan Gould's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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