Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen (born August 26, 1956, Houston, United States), aged 70, is an American actor (born 1956).
Brett Cullen’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Brett
Brett Cullen’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Brett in the U.S.?
#1382
US rank in 2025
~162,513
Americans share it since 1926
1986
its peak year
The SSA recorded 393 American boys and 6 girls named Brett in 1956: 376th among boys and 5,369th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Brett’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on B (2) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Brett’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Lilac · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, 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 Brett apart
Study took Brett Cullen to Madison High School and University of Houston.
Brett Cullen was 23 when the work began in 1979.
Brett Cullen was married Michele Little.
Wikipedia files Brett Cullen under Male actors from Houston, University of Houston alumni and American male television actors.
Mother Teresa (1910) and Antoine Lavoisier (1743) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Madison High School and University of Houston
- Working from
- 1979
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Arabia
- Wikipedia editions
- 30
What the chart says
Brett, according to the stars
Core essence
Brett notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Brett is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Brett wants to be loved
Brett wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Brett gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Brett creates
How Brett makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Brett creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Brett is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Brett is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Brett leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Brett slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Brett's birth date. Working below.
Where Brett sits
Six lines
Brett’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Brett Cullen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Houston 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 Houston that night
Computed for 29.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Houston at 9 p.m. that evening: Sheliak of Lyra, within 11.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 79 catalog stars were up in all.
Houston sits at 29.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −60.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 72% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
How unusual Brett's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree · Mars retrograde
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 →Brett Cullen at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Brett Cullen's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 26, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Brett Cullen was born on August 26, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Brett Cullen's birth date, August 26, 1956, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Brett’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brett Cullen's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Brett Cullen combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Brett’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineMoon0.1° to 6.3° orb
Brett’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Brett’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.7° orb
Brett’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.9° to 4.0° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.5° to 5.4° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.4° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Brett’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 7°43′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 20°46′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 18°49′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 18°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 29°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.7°
- Eros opposition Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.8°
Brett’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Brett’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
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Also born on August 26
- Mother Teresa1910
- Antoine Lavoisier1743
- Chris Pine1980
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- Katherine Johnson1918
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- RaphinhaBrazilian association football player (born 1996)
- Alexis Mac AllisterArgentine association football player (born 1998)
- Thomas RamosFrench rugby union player
Other Virgo Monkey charts
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Other Evergreen Storytellers
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- John HowardPrime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
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Brett’s cards
Computed from August 26, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Brett’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q176277 (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 Super Festivals, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brett Cullen at Wikipedia, kalldasd1997.tribe.so, 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 Brett Cullen.
Quick answers about Brett Cullen’s chart
- How old is Brett Cullen?
- Brett Cullen is 70 years old, born August 26, 1956 in Houston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Brett Cullen?
- Brett Cullen is a Virgo: born August 26, 1956, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Brett Cullen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 26, 1956 birth.
- What is Brett Cullen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Brett Cullen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Brett Cullen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brett Cullen's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
