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Brad Dourif

Brad Dourif (born March 18, 1950, Huntington, United States), aged 76, is an American actor (born 1950). Dourif is best known for Myst III: Exile, Child's Play and Alien Resurrection. Dourif's honours include Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Brad Dourif’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Brad Dourif’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Brad in the U.S.?

#4267

US rank in 2025

~83,293

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

In 1950, 460 American boys were registered Brad — 320th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Brad’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on B (2) and closes on D (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

Brad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

The record

What sets Brad apart

Lily Collins (1989) and Adam Levine (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Brad, according to the stars

Core essence

Brad feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Brad is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Brad wants to be loved

Brad 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 Brad be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Brad creates

How Brad makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Brad creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Brad is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Brad is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Brad fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Brad's birth date. Working below.

Where Brad sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Brad

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Brad

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

PrivateExpressive
Brad

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Brad

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Brad

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Brad

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Brad Dourif

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Huntington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Brad’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 79.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 12.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Huntington that night

Computed for 38.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over Huntington at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.1° above the horizon in Gemini.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

Huntington sits at 38.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −51.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Huntington on any night.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.

How unusual Brad's chart is

Chart pattern score

35 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Uranus · Mars retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Brad Dourif at a glance

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Brad Dourif's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 18, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Brad Dourif was born on March 18, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Brad Dourif's birth date, March 18, 1950, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Brad’s chart

Brad’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 0.8° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.2° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.6° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.7° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.8° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.4° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.5° orbSun in Pisces · 27°32′☉27°Moon in Pisces · 28°18′☽28°Mercury in Pisces · 18°41′☿18°Venus in Aquarius · 13°56′♀13°Mars in Libra · 3°47′ · retrograde♂℞3°Jupiter in Aquarius · 24°23′♃24°Saturn in Virgo · 15°09′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Cancer · 0°58′♅0°Neptune in Libra · 16°29′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Leo · 16°08′ · retrograde♇℞16°

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

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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

  • stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 6.3° orb

    Brad’s core identity and feelings act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb

    Brad’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Brad’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune2.2° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus2.6° to 3.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunoppositionMars5.6° to 6.9° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.5° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 4.4° to 14.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Brad’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 21°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 17°34′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 2°50′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 19°33′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 7°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.9°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.1°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Ceres square Saturn 2.4°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.8°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.9°

Brad’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Brad’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Mars, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.2°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 1.2°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.2°

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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection

Brad’s cards

Computed from March 18, 1950. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Brad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329734 (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 Diane Krauss (DianeAnna), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Brad Dourif 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 Brad Dourif.

Quick answers about Brad Dourif’s chart

How old is Brad Dourif?
Brad Dourif is 76 years old, born March 18, 1950 in Huntington, United States.
What zodiac sign is Brad Dourif?
Brad Dourif is a Pisces: born March 18, 1950, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Brad Dourif's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 18, 1950 birth.
What is Brad Dourif's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Brad Dourif's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Brad Dourif's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Brad Dourif's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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