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Adam Goldberg

Adam Goldberg (born October 25, 1970, Santa Monica, United States), aged 56, is an American actor.

Adam Goldberg’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Adam Goldberg’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

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

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

#101

US rank in 2025

~582,453

Americans share it since 1880

1984

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1970, Adam came 72nd among boys and 3,110th among girls, carried by 4,313 American boys and 21 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Adam’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.

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

Adam’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1970, 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 Adam apart

Sarah Lawrence College shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1990, at 20.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Adam Goldberg: Sarah Lawrence College alumni, American male actors of Mexican descent and Jewish American male actors.

Pablo Picasso (1881) and Katy Perry (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Sarah Lawrence College
Working from
1990
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Adam, according to the stars

Core essence

Adam does not do surface. The core of Adam 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 Adam is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Adam is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Adam needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Adam wants to be loved

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

How Adam creates

How Adam 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. Adam 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: Adam is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Adam 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Adam fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Adam's birth date. Working below.

Where Adam sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Adam

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Adam

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

PrivateExpressive
Adam

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Adam

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

PracticalVisionary
Adam

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Adam

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Adam Goldberg

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Santa Monica on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Adam’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 82.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 25° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Santa Monica that night

Computed for 34.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Santa Monica at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.5° above the horizon in Pegasus.

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

From 34.0°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 Santa Monica at all: they sit past the −56.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 15% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Santa Monica, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Adam Goldberg's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

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

How unusual Adam's chart is

Chart pattern score

74 / 100 · Rare

5-planet stellium in Scorpio · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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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Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Adam Goldberg's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 25, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Adam Goldberg was born on October 25, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Adam Goldberg's birth date, October 25, 1970, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Adam’s chart

Adam’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.8° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 4.2° orbVenus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 4.9° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 1°59′☉1°Moon in Virgo · 12°19′☽12°Mercury in Scorpio · 0°57′☿0°Venus in Scorpio · 24°41′ · retrograde♀℞24°Mars in Libra · 3°25′♂3°Jupiter in Scorpio · 13°18′♃13°Saturn in Taurus · 20°29′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Libra · 10°37′♅10°Neptune in Scorpio · 29°35′♆29°Pluto in Virgo · 28°29′♇28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.7° to 1.4° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb

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

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.5° to 4.1° orb

    Adam’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.7° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.6° to 5.2° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.9° to 7.5° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn7.0° to 7.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 2.2° to 14.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 4.5° to 15.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 7°02′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 0°24′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 19°08′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 12°18′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Mercury 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Eros trine Saturn 1.4°
  • Ceres opposition Sun 1.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.7°

Adam’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Adam’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 0.9°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°

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Adam’s cards

Computed from October 25, 1970. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Adam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q281964 (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 Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV from Culver City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Adam Goldberg at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Adam Goldberg.

Quick answers about Adam Goldberg’s chart

How old is Adam Goldberg?
Adam Goldberg is 56 years old, born October 25, 1970 in Santa Monica, United States.
What zodiac sign is Adam Goldberg?
Adam Goldberg is a Scorpio: born October 25, 1970, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Adam Goldberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 25, 1970 birth.
What is Adam Goldberg's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Adam Goldberg's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Adam Goldberg's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Adam Goldberg's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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