Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy (born December 12, 1949, Caterham, United Kingdom), aged 76, is a British actor (born 1949). Nighy is best known for Underworld, Love Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Nighy's honours include Golden Globe Awards, Theatre World Award and Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production.
Bill Nighy’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Bill
Bill Nighy’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Bill in the U.S.?
#5235
US rank in 2025
~161,190
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,765 American boys and 9 girls named Bill in 1949: 106th among boys and 3,645th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bill’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on B (2) and closes on L (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bill’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The record
What sets Bill apart
Frank Sinatra (1915) and Jennifer Connelly (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Bill, according to the stars
Core essence
Bill is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Bill is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Bill 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 Bill needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Bill wants to be loved
Bill wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Bill be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Bill creates
How Bill makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Bill creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Bill 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Bill is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Bill channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Bill's birth date. Working below.
Where Bill sits
Six lines
Bill’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Bill Nighy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Caterham 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 Caterham that night
Computed for 51.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Miram stood nearest the zenith over Caterham at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.5° above the horizon in Perseus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Caterham sits at 51.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon down and 52% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Bill's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Bill Nighy's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 12, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Bill Nighy was born on December 12, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Bill Nighy's birth date, December 12, 1949, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Bill’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bill Nighy's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Bill Nighy combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Bill’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Virgo 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
stableSunsquareSaturn0.5° to 1.5° orb
Bill’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Bill’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.3° to 2.9° orb
Bill’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrinePluto1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.6° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.8° to 5.2° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.0° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 2.4° to 16.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 4.7° to 18.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Bill’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 13°29′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°47′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 26°30′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°47′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.7°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.4°
Bill’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Bill’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.7°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
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More charts like Bill’s
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Born in Ox years
- Irvin CharlesAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Ronnie HarrisonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Clelin FerrellAmerican football player (born 1997)
Also born on December 12
- Frank Sinatra1915
- Jennifer Connelly1970
- Mayim Bialik1975
- Robert Noyce1927
- Regina Hall1970
- Kimberly Loaiza1997
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- Dhanin ChearavanontThai businessman, senior chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group
- Lukas WaltonAmerican billionaire heir
Other Sagittarius Ox charts
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- Michael OnwenuAmerican football guard
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Other Radiant Seekers
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Famous people with Life Path 11
- Ruby RoseAustralian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Bill’s cards
Computed from December 12, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207179 (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 3.0, 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 Bill Nighy.
Quick answers about Bill Nighy’s chart
- How old is Bill Nighy?
- Bill Nighy is 76 years old, born December 12, 1949 in Caterham, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Bill Nighy?
- Bill Nighy is a Sagittarius: born December 12, 1949, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Bill Nighy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 12, 1949 birth.
- What is Bill Nighy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bill Nighy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bill Nighy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bill Nighy's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
