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Zach Galifianakis

Zach Galifianakis (born Zacharius Knight Galifianakis; October 1, 1969, North Wilkesboro, United States), aged 57, is an American actor and comedian. Notable films include Birdman, Into the Wild and The Hangover. Galifianakis's honours include MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Zach Galifianakis’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Zach Galifianakis’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#2515

US rank in 2025

~2,804

Americans share it since 1913

2007

its peak year

Zach ranked 4,401st in 1969, the year of this birth, with 6 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Zach’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Zacharius Knight Galifianakis, not the name they published under.

4

Expression · building what holds

8

Soul Urge · achievement

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on Z (8) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Zach’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Blush · Gold

The record

What sets Zach apart

The classrooms behind this chart: Wilkes Community College and Wilkes Central High School.

The working life starts in 1996, at 27.

Julie Andrews (1935) and George Weah (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Wilkes Community College, Wilkes Central High School and North Carolina State University
Working from
1996
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Zach, according to the stars

Core essence

Zach makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Zach is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Zach processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Zach needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Zach wants to be loved

Zach wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Zach and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Zach creates

How Zach 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. Zach 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: Zach 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Zach is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

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

Where Zach sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Zach

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Zach

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

PrivateExpressive
Zach

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Zach

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

PracticalVisionary
Zach

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Zach

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 Zach Galifianakis

Three stars chosen from the real sky above North Wilkesboro 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 North Wilkesboro that night

Computed for 36.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at North Wilkesboro was Sadr, in Cygnus, 85.9° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.

From 36.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from North Wilkesboro at all: they sit past the −53.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 64% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Zacharius Knight Galifianakis
Known as
Zach Galifianakis
Born in
North Wilkesboro, United States

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

How unusual Zach's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Libra · Grand trine · No Fire planets

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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Zach Galifianakis at a glance

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Zach Galifianakis's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 1, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Zach Galifianakis was born on October 1, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Zach Galifianakis's birth date, October 1, 1969, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Zach’s chart

Zach’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 1.7° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.9° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.9° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 3° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.6° orbSun in Libra · 8°18′☉8°Moon in Gemini · 18°30′☽18°Mercury in Libra · 3°37′ · retrograde☿℞3°Venus in Virgo · 10°23′♀10°Mars in Capricorn · 6°34′♂6°Jupiter in Libra · 14°38′♃14°Saturn in Taurus · 7°31′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Libra · 4°39′♅4°Neptune in Scorpio · 26°43′♆26°Pluto in Virgo · 25°26′♇25°

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.5° to 1.6° orb

    Zach’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.6° to 1.3° orb

    Zach’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareMars1.6° to 1.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus1.6° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.1° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn2.2° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.2° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars3.5° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.7° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.0° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 4°25′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 28°10′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 27°21′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 13°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
  • Eros square Neptune 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 0.8°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.1°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Chiron square Mars 2.1°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 3.0°

Zach’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Zach’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun quincunx Saturn 0.8°

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Zach’s cards

Computed from October 1, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Zach’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q139325 (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 CleftClips from Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Zach Galifianakis at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Zach Galifianakis.

Quick answers about Zach Galifianakis’s chart

How old is Zach Galifianakis?
Zach Galifianakis is 57 years old, born October 1, 1969 in North Wilkesboro, United States.
What zodiac sign is Zach Galifianakis?
Zach Galifianakis is a Libra: born October 1, 1969, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Zach Galifianakis's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 1, 1969 birth.
What is Zach Galifianakis's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Zach Galifianakis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Zach Galifianakis's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Zach Galifianakis's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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