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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Brad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Brad sits

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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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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Brad’s chart

Brad’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Brad Dourif, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′ · retrogradeJupiter in Aquarius · 24°23′24°Saturn in Virgo · 15°09′ · retrograde15°Uranus in Cancer · 0°58′Neptune in Libra · 16°29′ · retrograde16°Pluto in Leo · 16°08′ · retrograde16°

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.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Brad’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.6° to 4.5° orb

    Brad’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableMarssquareUranus2.6° to 3.0° orb

    Brad’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb

    Brad’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunoppositionMars5.6° to 6.9° orb

    Brad’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus6.5° to 6.7° orb

    Brad’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • 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

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 21°35′ (moves 0.02° 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 Brad building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.

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

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Brad is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

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

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Brad wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

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

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Brad is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Brad is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Brad’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. 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

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Brad is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Brad’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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brad Dourif, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Brad’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

yang Metal

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Water

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Brad Dourif, 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

Brad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q329734, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
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 time was Brad Dourif 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 Brad Dourif's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 18, 1950 birth date.
What is Brad Dourif's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 18, 1950 birth date.
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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