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Bo Burnham

Bo Burnham (born Robert Pickering Burnham; August 21, 1990, Hamilton, United States), aged 36, is an American comedian. Notable films include Promising Young Woman, Hall Pass and Funny People. Burnham's honours include Emmy Award, Film Independent Spirit Awards and Directors Guild of America Award.

Bo Burnham’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

Your match with Bo Burnham

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Bo Burnham’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Bo Burnham in the U.S.?

#449

US rank in 2025

~15,849

Americans share it since 1907

2025

its peak year

In 1990, 277 American boys and 16 girls were registered Bo — 603rd among boys and 5,588th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Bo Burnham’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Robert Pickering Burnham, not the name they published under.

4

Expression · building what holds

2

Soul Urge · closeness

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Bo Burnham’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1990, 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 Bo Burnham apart

Usain Bolt (1986) and Robert Lewandowski (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Bo Burnham, according to the stars

Core essence

Bo Burnham is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Bo Burnham 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, Bo Burnham 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 Bo Burnham needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Bo Burnham wants to be loved

Bo Burnham 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 Bo Burnham openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Bo Burnham creates

How Bo Burnham makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Bo Burnham creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Bo Burnham is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Bo Burnham is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Bo Burnham is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Bo Burnham's birth date. Working below.

Where Bo Burnham sits

Six lines

Bo Burnham’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Bo Burnham

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bo Burnham

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Bo Burnham

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bo Burnham

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Bo Burnham

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bo Burnham

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Bo Burnham

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamilton 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 Hamilton that night

Computed for 42.62°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Hamilton was Vega, in Lyra, 84.6° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

Hamilton sits at 42.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hamilton at all: they sit past the −47.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Robert Pickering Burnham
Known as
Bo Burnham
Born in
Hamilton, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Bo Burnham's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bo Burnham: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Bo's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Leo · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet

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 →

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Bo Burnham's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1990, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Metal Horse

Open road, open heart.

Bo Burnham was born on August 21, 1990, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Bo Burnham's birth date, August 21, 1990, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Bo Burnham’s chart

Bo Burnham’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 2° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.3° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 3.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.4° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 5.3° orbSun in Leo · 28°20′☉28°Moon in Virgo · 12°30′☽12°Mercury in Virgo · 22°52′☿22°Venus in Leo · 9°28′♀9°Mars in Taurus · 24°51′♂24°Jupiter in Leo · 0°43′♃0°Saturn in Capricorn · 19°32′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Capricorn · 5°50′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Capricorn · 12°05′ · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Scorpio · 15°10′♇15°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 7.0° orb

    Bo Burnham’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurytrineMars1.9° to 2.1° orb

    Bo Burnham’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn3.1° to 3.5° orb

    Bo Burnham’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars3.3° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn5.0° to 5.6° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.1° to 6.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune6.2° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.4° to 7.5° orb

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Bo Burnham’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 23°04′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 27°50′ (moves 0.46° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosGemini 25°38′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 20°48′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 2°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.7°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.1°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.7°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.8°
  • Ceres square Mars 3.0°

Bo Burnham’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Bo Burnham’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°

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Bo Burnham’s cards

Computed from August 21, 1990. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hanged Man

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bo Burnham’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q887347 (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 Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Bo Burnham at Wikipedia, boburnham.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bo Burnham.

Quick answers about Bo Burnham’s chart

How old is Bo Burnham?
Bo Burnham is 36 years old, born August 21, 1990 in Hamilton, United States.
What zodiac sign is Bo Burnham?
Bo Burnham is a Leo: born August 21, 1990, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Bo Burnham's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1990 birth.
What is Bo Burnham's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Bo Burnham's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Bo Burnham's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Bo Burnham's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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