| Bio/Wiki | |
|---|---|
| Profession(s) | Astrologer, Activist |
| Physical Stats | |
| Height (approx.) | 5' 8" (173 cm) |
| Eye Colour | Dark Brown |
| Hair Colour | Black |
| Career | |
| Honours | • 2018- Honored by the Astraea Foundation in Los Angeles for the impact her work has had on inspiring and nourishing queer and intersectional feminist spaces • 2018- Honored by the San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA 100 Summit |
| Personal Life | |
| Date of Birth | Year 1975 |
| Age (as of 2025) | 50 Years |
| Birthplace | British Columbia, Canada |
| Signature |  |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Hometown | British Columbia |
| College/University | California Institute of Integral Studies |
| Educational Qualification | Graduate |
| Social Media | • Instagram • YouTube |
| Relationships & More | |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Family | |
| Wife/Spouse | Sonya Passi (Businesswoman) |
Some Lesser Known Facts About Chani Nicholas
- Chani Nicholas got into astrology at age 12 after her step-grandmother booked an astrology session for the family. From the moment the astrologer began speaking, she was fascinated.
- According to her, “it felt like hearing a language she somehow already knew.”
- Learning about astrology helped Chani understand her parents’ divorce and her new step-siblings because it gave her a clear way to explain why people’s personalities can be so different.
- When Chani Nicholas was 13 years old, she received a training in ‘Reiki, which is a healing method where the practitioner uses touch to channel energy into a person, helping the body’s natural ability to heal itself and improve both physical and emotional health.
- In 2004, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. To support herself, Chani Nicholas took whatever jobs she could get, like waitressing in Sherman Oaks and West Hollywood, and bartending in Culver City.
- She began seriously considering astrology as a career after moving to San Francisco to start college.
- After deciding to leave the acting industry, she enrolled at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she completed her bachelor’s degree.
- Her college was where students could earn the credits they needed to graduate. While writing many essays there, she noticed she kept bringing astrology into her work.
- During this time, Chani started reading works by feminists like Bell Hooks and became more interested in social justice.
- Chani Nicholas started her career in 2011 by sending a weekly astrology newsletter to her friends and family. People liked them, so she got a blogspot.com address and put her horoscopes up every month. Chani never thought anyone would like it.
- At her blogspot account, Chani Nicholas had a counter that showed how many people were reading her work, and she watched it climb from 300 to 500. Then one day, a post suddenly got 15,000 views, and she thought that something big was happening.
- Eventually, Chani Nicholas bought the website Chaninicholas.com and began posting weekly horoscopes and longer essays that combined world commentary with interpretations of the moon’s phases. She still was not sure if this mix would interest anyone beyond her close friends.
- Talking about her thoughts at that time, Chani was quoted as saying in one of her interviews that
I thought people are going to hate this, because the woot-woot spiritual yoga heads that want astrology don’t want to hear me rant about the world as I see it, and the people that are interested in critically looking at the world aren’t going to want astrology.”
- In 2011, Chani Nicholas started her self-titled YouTube channel and started uploading videos related to astrology. Her YouTube channel holds more than 45 thousand subscribers, as of 2025.
- Chani Nicholas began building a loyal audience. She offered astrology chart readings for $50 to $90 per session, with discounts for people involved in social justice work. In the summer of 2014, she added online booking, and by December, she was fully booked until the following summer, with a waiting list.
- Chani Nicholas often talks about left-leaning politics and attracts up to a million readers each month with her unique, mystical, but not cheesy writing style.
- In 2018, Chani appeared in the fourteenth episode of the Netflix American documentary television series titled ‘Explained.’
- In 2019, she was selected as the ‘resident astrologer’ on Oprah Magazine’s website.
- Chani Nicholas’s first book, titled ‘You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Acceptance,’ was published by Harper Collins in 2020.
The cover of Chani Nicholas’s book titled ‘You Were Born For This- Astrology for Radical Acceptance’ (2020)
- Talking about the inspiration behind writing her first book, Chani was quoted as saying in one of her interviews that
I hoped to write a book that would help people access the wisdom of their chart so that they could more quickly align with living out their purpose. And so that we could all be, again, more quickly of service to the world.”
- Her first book debuted at number 8th on the New York Times Best Seller list.
- In December 2020, Chani Nicholas launched an app called ‘CHANI,’ which gives users astrology insights.
- As of 2025. Chani Nicholar earns her income by offering affordable online classes, costing between $21 and $48, where she teaches people how to understand their astrological chart, which is basically a map showing where the planets were when they were born.
- Her work centres on progressive ideas and supports marginalised groups, like queer and transgender people.
- Chani Nicholas includes activism in most of her writing, connecting with a generation that cares deeply about issues like racism, sexism, and gun control.
