Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro (born February 19, 1967, San Germán, United States), aged 59, is a Puerto Rican actor. Notable films include Avengers: Infinity War, Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor: The Dark World. Toro's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Benicio del Toro’s zodiac sign is Aquarius or Pisces (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Benicio
How common is the name Benicio in the U.S.?
#672
US rank in 2025
~4,665
Americans share it since 1988
2025
its peak year
US records hold Benicio from 1988 onward, though not for 1967 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2025 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Benicio’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on B (2) and closes on O (6).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Benicio’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Flame orange
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 1967, 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 Benicio apart
Benicio del Toro took the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male in 1997, at 30.
Stella Adler Studio of Acting and Mercersburg Academy shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1987, at 20.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Benicio del Toro: Puerto Rican Roman Catholics, People from San Germán, Puerto Rico and Mercersburg Academy alumni.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953) and Jennifer Doudna (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Mercersburg Academy and Circle in the Square Theatre School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (2001), Donostia Award (2014) and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (2008)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1987
- Citizenship
- Spain and United States
- Languages
- Spanish and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Benicio, according to the stars
How Benicio wants to be loved
Benicio wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Benicio, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Benicio creates
How Benicio makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Benicio builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Benicio is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Benicio is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Benicio runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Benicio's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Benicio del Toro
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Germán 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 San Germán that night
Computed for 18.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alhena stood nearest the zenith over San Germán at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.7° above the horizon in Gemini.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 18.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 73% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 36° below the horizon.
How unusual Benicio's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Pisces · Grand trine · Only two elements
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.
Score your own chart →Aquarius or Pisces Sun
Benicio del Toro was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Benicio del Toro was born on February 19, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Benicio del Toro's birth date, February 19, 1967, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Benicio’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Benicio del Toro's date-only chart is Venus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Seven of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Fire.
Benicio’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareUranus0.0° to 6.8° orb
Benicio’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Benicio’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.4° to 1.8° orb
Benicio’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSuntrineMars0.8° to 1.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.8° to 2.0° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.8° to 2.4° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.5° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water7 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Benicio’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°12′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 23°26′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 11°49′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 27°57′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres square Venus 1.3°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.4°
Benicio’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 7 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
7 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Benicio’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
Kite · Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Mars 0.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°
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- Jason Flemyng1966
- Sherri Shepherd1967
- NeNe Leakes1966
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Also born on February 19
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner1953
- Jennifer Doudna1964
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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- Alida ValliItalian actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Pape GueyeSenegalese and French footballer
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Benicio’s cards
Computed from February 19, 1967. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Benicio’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193668 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benicio del Toro 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 Benicio del Toro.
Quick answers about Benicio del Toro’s chart
- How old is Benicio del Toro?
- Benicio del Toro is 59 years old, born February 19, 1967 in San Germán, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Benicio del Toro?
- Benicio del Toro was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Benicio del Toro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 19, 1967 birth.
- What is Benicio del Toro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Benicio del Toro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Benicio del Toro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Benicio del Toro's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 7 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
