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Ryan Coogler

Ryan Coogler (born May 23, 1986, Oakland, United States, 17:43), aged 40, is an American filmmaker. Coogler is best known for Black Panther, Space Jam: A New Legacy and Sinners. Coogler's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay and Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award.

Ryan Coogler’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Ryan Coogler’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#99

US rank in 2025

~991,747

Americans share it since 1906

1985

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1986, Ryan came 11th among boys and 342nd among girls, carried by 29,524 American boys and 703 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ryan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

9

Soul Urge · meaning

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on R (9) and closes on N (5).

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

Ryan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet

The record

What sets Ryan apart

John Bardeen (1908) and Rubens Barrichello (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Ryan, according to the stars

Core essence

Ryan is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Ryan needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Ryan is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Ryan needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Ryan wants to be loved

Ryan wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Ryan gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Ryan creates

How Ryan makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Ryan creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Ryan 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ryan is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ryan 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 Ryan's birth date. Working below.

Where Ryan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ryan

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ryan

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

PrivateExpressive
Ryan

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ryan

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

PracticalVisionary
Ryan

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ryan

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Oakland at 17:43, Ryan Coogler’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Oakland that night

Computed for 37.80°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Oakland at the birth hour: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 10.3° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -29° down.

What Ryan's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Peacemaker 天同, The Elder 天梁 in 申

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Mercury · 3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · Born on the Full Moon

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.

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Ryan Coogler in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Ryan Coogler's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.

What Gemini means →

Fire Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Ryan Coogler was born on May 23, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Ryan Coogler's birth date, May 23, 1986, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Ryan’s chart

Ryan’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.2° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.8° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 2° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.3° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.3° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 2.4° orbSun in Gemini · 2°34′ · house 8☉2°Moon in Sagittarius · 4°56′ · house 2☽4°Mercury in Gemini · 3°46′ · house 8☿3°Venus in Cancer · 2°57′ · house 9♀2°Mars in Capricorn · 21°36′ · house 3♂21°Jupiter in Pisces · 19°08′ · house 5♃19°Saturn in Sagittarius · 6°43′ · house 2 · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Sagittarius · 21°07′ · house 2 · retrograde♅℞21°Neptune in Capricorn · 5°16′ · house 3 · retrograde♆℞5°Pluto in Scorpio · 5°14′ · house 1 · retrograde♇℞5°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 2°18′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 2°18′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 7°25′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 7°25′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantScorpio
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.0° orb

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

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 1.2° orb

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

  • MoonoppositionMercuryseparating · 1.2° orb

    Ryan’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.

  • MoonconjunctionSaturnapplying · 1.8° orb

  • JupitersquareUranusapplying · 2.0° orb

  • VenusoppositionNeptuneapplying · 2.3° orb

  • VenustrinePlutoapplying · 2.3° orb

  • SunoppositionMoonseparating · 2.4° orb

  • MarssextileJupiterseparating · 2.5° orb

  • MercuryoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.9° orb

  • SunoppositionSaturnapplying · 4.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 14°05′ · House 8

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 6°57′ · House 11

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 21°39′ · House 4

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°38′ · House 7

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 9°38′ · House 8

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Saturn 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 1.7°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 1.7°
  • Ceres square Moon 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.9°

Ryan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; in its own sign, Scorpio; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Ryan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Moon, Saturn, UranusThree 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars semi-square Saturn 0.1°
  • Moon semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Moon semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
  • Moon semi-square Mars 1.7°
  • Moon quincunx Venus 2.0°

Ryan’s houses

Ryan’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 1Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Pisces, house 5Moon, Saturn, Uranusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 2Mars, Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 2emptyhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 3Jupitercreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Capricorn, house 3emptywork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 9emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 8Sun, Mercuryshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Sagittarius, house 2Venusbelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Gemini, house 8emptycareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 8emptyfriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Cancer, house 9emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Ryan’s cards

Computed from May 23, 1986. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ryan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7383978 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ryan Coogler.

Quick answers about Ryan Coogler’s chart

How old is Ryan Coogler?
Ryan Coogler is 40 years old, born May 23, 1986 in Oakland, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ryan Coogler?
Ryan Coogler is a Gemini: born May 23, 1986, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What is Ryan Coogler's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 23, 1986 birth.
What time was Ryan Coogler born?
17:43 local time in Oakland, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Ryan Coogler's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 17:43 birth time in Oakland, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Ryan Coogler's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Ryan Coogler's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 14°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ryan Coogler's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 9°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ryan Coogler's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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