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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Billy
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
The SSA recorded 5,769 American boys and 50 girls named Billy in 1955: 69th among boys and 1,424th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Billy’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name William Robert Thornton, not the name they published under.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Billy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1955, 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 Billy apart
Barack Obama (1961) and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
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. Working below.
Where Billy sits
Six lines
Billy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Billy Bob Thornton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hot Springs on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Hot Springs at 07:05, Billy Bob Thornton’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Hot Springs that night
Computed for 34.50°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Hot Springs was Algol, in Perseus, 82.2° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Hot Springs sits at 34.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hot Springs at all: they sit past the −55.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -7° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- William Robert Thornton
- Known as
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Born in
- Hot Springs, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Billy Bob Thornton's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Hot Springs, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as mixed for this chart: 58 of 100, 55th of 171 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Billy's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Lunar Star 太陰 in 卯
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
6-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Saturn · No Earth planets
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.3° orb
UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 3.2° orb
SunsquareSaturnapplying · 3.4° orb
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 3.6° orb
MoonoppositionMarsseparating · 4.0° orb
SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.1° orb
MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 4.3° orb
MoonsquareSaturnseparating · 4.7° orb
MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 4.7° orb
VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 4.9° orb
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 5.4° orb
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 6.3° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 6.3° orb
MoonoppositionPlutoapplying · 6.6° orb
VenusconjunctionJupiterapplying · 7.4° orb
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 2°15′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 13°27′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 18°29′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 20°21′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°17′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Billy’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Billy’s chart
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
| 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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One relative of Billy Bob Thornton also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Billy’s cards
Computed from August 4, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Billy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202735 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Billy Bob Thornton.
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.
- 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.
- What is Billy Bob Thornton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 2°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
