Dom Cobb: zodiac sign and birth chart

Dom Cobb has no canon birthday. The film never gives one. Read from his personality, he's a Pisces: Sun, Moon and rising in the same sign, the dream thief who can build whole cities in his head and can't let one memory go. Aquarius Mercury, Venus and Mars give him the planner's mind.

SunPisces
MoonPisces
RisingPisces
MercuryAquarius
VenusAquarius
MarsAquarius

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SourceNo canon birthday: Inception never gives Cobb a date. The chart is NEBO's take, read from his personality.

Birth chart

Cobb's chart at a glance

No canon birthday, so this is NEBO's take, read from his character.

FlowingTense

Fire0
Earth0
Air3
Water3

No single element runs his chart. 3 air, 3 water.
Double Pisces. Sun and Moon in the same sign, about 1 in 12 people have that.
About 1 in 37 birthdays get Cobb in the app's Cult movies world.

NEBO's take

No birthday in canon. His personality says Pisces.

We ran Cobb through the same model that matches people to characters in the app, and looked at which chart gets him most often. It reads him as water first: dreamy, haunted and most at home when the line between real and imagined is blurry.

Canon

No canon birthdayNever given in the film

NEBO's take

Pisces SunRead from his personality

Sun CanonNot in canonNEBO's takePisces
Pisces lives between worlds. Cobb spends more of the film inside dreams than outside them.
Moon CanonNot in canonNEBO's takePisces
Pisces Moon carries old hurts. His wife keeps showing up in the dreams he builds, and he can't send her away.
Rising CanonNo birth timeNEBO's takePisces
No birth time in canon. First impression: a tired man washed up on a beach with a small spinning top in his pocket.
Mercury CanonNot in canonNEBO's takeAquarius
Aquarius Mercury explains the impossible clearly. He explains that the most resilient parasite is an idea.
Venus CanonNot in canonNEBO's takeAquarius
Aquarius Venus loves from a distance. His whole plan is a way home to his children.
Mars CanonNot in canonNEBO's takeAquarius
Aquarius Mars is the planner. He pulls together a team of specialists and gives each one a layer of the plan.

What canon does give: a man who steals secrets and can't go home. Pisces answers with a talent for dreams and a weak spot for memories.

How he shows up

Why he's like this

Pisces is the sign of dreams, memory and things you can't quite let go. Cobb hits every one of them, in scenes fans know by heart.

CorePisces Sun

Lives between worlds
Cobb makes his living stealing secrets from sleeping minds. His team builds the dream, he walks into it and takes what he came for.
Inception (2010)
MindMercury in Aquarius

Explains the impossible
Explaining the job, Cobb says an idea is the most resilient parasite there is: once it takes root, almost nothing can remove it.
Inception (2010)
In a fightMars in Aquarius

Folds a city like a book
In a dream Paris, Cobb teaches the new architect, Ariadne, to bend the street up and over itself.
Inception (2010)
FeelingsPisces Moon

She won't leave
His late wife, Mal, shows up inside the dreams he builds and keeps getting in the way of the job.
Inception (2010)
LoveVenus in Aquarius

All of it for the kids
Saito promises that if the job works, Cobb can go home to his children. That promise is the reason he takes it.
Inception (2010)