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Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins (born December 31, 1937, Port Talbot, United Kingdom), aged 88, is a Welsh–American actor and director. Notable films include The Silence of the Lambs, Thor and Thor: Ragnarok. Hopkins's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Awards and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Anthony Hopkins’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Anthony Hopkins’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Visionary

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

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

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

#46

US rank in 2025

~1,495,156

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

Anthony ranked 47th among boys and 1,540th among girls in 1937, the year of this birth, with 4,339 American boys and 24 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anthony’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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 Anthony apart

Anthony Hopkins took the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1991, at 54.

Cowbridge Grammar School and West Monmouth School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1960, at 23.

On the family side, Anthony Hopkins was married Stella Arroyave and raised one child.

Wikipedia's editors put Anthony Hopkins under Cool Cymru, Barker family and Alumni of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

The same date carries Avram Hershko. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Cowbridge Grammar School, West Monmouth School and Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Awards
Academy Awards (1992), Academy Award for Best Actor (2021) and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor (1993)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Actor and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor
Working from
1960
Citizenship
United States and United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
120

What the chart says

Anthony, according to the stars

Core essence

Anthony is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Anthony is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Anthony wants to be loved

Anthony wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Anthony you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Anthony creates

How Anthony makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Anthony creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Anthony is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Anthony 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Anthony slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Anthony's birth date. Working below.

Where Anthony sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Anthony

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Anthony

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

PrivateExpressive
Anthony

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Anthony

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

PracticalVisionary
Anthony

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Anthony

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Anthony Hopkins

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Port Talbot 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 Port Talbot that night

Computed for 51.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirfak stood nearest the zenith over Port Talbot at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.9° above the horizon in Perseus.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

At 51.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Port Talbot, United Kingdom
Lives in
Malibu

Wikidata records Malibu as Anthony Hopkins'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 Anthony Hopkins: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Anthony's chart is

Chart pattern score

46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Capricorn · No Fire planets · 2 planets at a critical degree

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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Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Anthony Hopkins's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 31, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Anthony Hopkins's birth date, December 31, 1937, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Anthony’s chart

Anthony’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.3° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.4° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.5° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.1° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 9°25′☉9°Moon in Sagittarius · 25°26′☽25°Mercury in Capricorn · 6°08′ · retrograde☿℞6°Venus in Capricorn · 1°07′♀1°Mars in Pisces · 7°23′♂7°Jupiter in Aquarius · 2°31′♃2°Saturn in Pisces · 29°08′♄29°Uranus in Taurus · 9°51′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Virgo · 21°08′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Cancer · 29°25′ · retrograde♇℞29°

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

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Anthony’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.2° to 2.3° orb

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

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.3° orb

    Anthony’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars1.9° to 2.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.1° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus2.1° to 2.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.0° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.1° to 4.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn3.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.7° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 27°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 3°01′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 7°21′

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra or Virgo during this date

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Mars 0.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.6°
  • Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.9°
  • Hygiea square Venus 1.1°
  • Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.9°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.5°

Anthony’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Anthony’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Pluto 1.7°

Born the same day as Anthony

Avram Hershko was born on December 31, 1937 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Port Talbot, at 51.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Anthony’s cards

Computed from December 31, 1937. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q65932 (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 Omar David Sandoval Sida, CC BY-SA 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 Anthony Hopkins.

Quick answers about Anthony Hopkins’s chart

How old is Anthony Hopkins?
Anthony Hopkins is 88 years old, born December 31, 1937 in Port Talbot, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Anthony Hopkins?
Anthony Hopkins is a Capricorn: born December 31, 1937, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Anthony Hopkins's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 31, 1937 birth.
How tall is Anthony Hopkins?
Anthony Hopkins is 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Anthony Hopkins's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Anthony Hopkins's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Anthony Hopkins's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Anthony Hopkins's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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