Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born William Robert Thornton; August 4, 1955, Hot Springs, United States, 07:05), aged 71, is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician. Notable films include Love Actually, Armageddon and Indecent Proposal. Thornton's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Saturn Awards.
Billy Bob Thornton’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Goat, with 
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Billy Bob Thornton’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Billy in the U.S.?
#1068
US rank in 2025
~389,665
Americans share it since 1880
1934
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Billy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
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What the chart says
Billy, according to the stars
Core essence
Billy is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Billy is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Billy needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Billy needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Billy wants to be loved
Billy wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Billy openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Billy creates
How Billy makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Billy creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Billy 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Billy is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Billy fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Billy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Billy sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Billy Bob Thornton at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Billy Bob Thornton's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Billy Bob Thornton's birth date, August 4, 1955, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Billy’s chart
- Eight of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Billy Bob Thornton's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Moon in the 7th house, Mercury in the 1st house, Venus in the 1st house, Mars in the 1st house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Saturn in the 4th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Billy Bob Thornton's timed chart is Sun conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Billy Bob Thornton combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Billy’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunconjunctionJupiterseparating · 0.2° orb
Billy’s core identity and growth act as one.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.3° orb
Billy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssquareSaturnseparating · 0.7° orb
Billy’s drive grinds against their discipline.
MercuryconjunctionJupiterapplying · 1.1° orb
Billy’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.3° orb
Billy’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 3.2° orb
Billy’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsquareSaturnapplying · 3.4° orb
Billy’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 3.6° orb
Billy’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonoppositionMarsseparating · 4.0° orb
Billy’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.1° orb
Billy’s core identity and drive act as one.
MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 4.3° orb
Billy’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoonsquareSaturnseparating · 4.7° orb
Billy’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 4.7° orb
Billy’s mind grinds against their discipline.
VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 4.9° orb
Billy’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 5.4° orb
Billy’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 6.3° orb
Billy’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 6.3° orb
Billy’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoonoppositionPlutoapplying · 6.6° orb
Billy’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
VenusconjunctionJupiterapplying · 7.4° orb
Billy’s affections and growth act as one.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 7.6° orb
Billy’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed8 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Billy’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 2°15′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Billy making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 13°27′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Billy caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCancer 18°29′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Billy is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLibra 20°21′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Billy is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°17′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Billy leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Moon 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Ascendant 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 2.5°
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°).
Billy’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun20 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; rules the Ascendant, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
angular in the first house; 5 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Billy 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 Billy’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, PlutoThree 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.
T-square onto Saturn · Moon, Mars, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Billy’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 1 | Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 1 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Leo, house 1 | Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 1 | Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 12 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 3 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 1 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Leo, house 1 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 1 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Aquarius, house 7 | Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Billy’s cards
Every card is computed from August 4, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Billy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202735, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Emmanuelle CHOUSSY, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Billy Bob Thornton 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.
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Quick answers about Billy Bob Thornton’s chart
- How old is Billy Bob Thornton?
- Billy Bob Thornton is 71 years old, born August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Billy Bob Thornton?
- Billy Bob Thornton is a Leo: born August 4, 1955, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- What is Billy Bob Thornton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 4, 1955 birth.
- What time was Billy Bob Thornton born?
- 07:05 local time in Hot Springs, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Billy Bob Thornton's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 07:05 birth time in Hot Springs, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- What is Billy Bob Thornton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 4, 1955 birth date.
- What is Billy Bob Thornton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 2°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 4, 1955 birth time.
- Where is Billy Bob Thornton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 16°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Billy Bob Thornton's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (20 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; rules the Ascendant, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
