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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Bill’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bill sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Bill Nighy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Bill’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.6° to 3.2° orb
Bill’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.7° to 3.7° orb
Bill’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareMars3.7° to 4.3° orb
Bill’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.8° to 5.2° orb
Bill’s drive and discipline act as one.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 13°29′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Bill building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°47′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Bill is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosAquarius 26°30′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Bill is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°47′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Bill carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Bill carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.7°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.4°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Bill’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Bill is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Bill’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bill Nighy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Bill’s cards
Every card is computed from December 12, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Bill Nighy, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Bill’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207179, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bill Nighy at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- 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 time was Bill Nighy born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Bill Nighy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the December 12, 1949 birth date.
- What is Bill Nighy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 12, 1949 birth date.
- 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.
