Brian Schmidt
Brian Schmidt (born February 24, 1967, Missoula, United States), aged 59, is an American-born Australian astrophysicist. Schmidt's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and Companion of the Order of Australia.
Brian Schmidt’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Brian Schmidt’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Brian in the U.S.?
#339
US rank in 2025
~1,178,298
Americans share it since 1880
1972
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Brian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Brian, according to the stars
Core essence
Brian feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Brian 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 Brian wants to be loved
Brian wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Brian creates
How Brian makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Brian creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Brian 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Brian is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Brian runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Brian's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Brian sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Brian Schmidt at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs the room's mood.
Brian Schmidt's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 24, 1967, 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.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Brian Schmidt was born on February 24, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Brian Schmidt's birth date, February 24, 1967, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Brian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Brian Schmidt's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Brian Schmidt combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Brian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Brian Schmidt, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 7.8° orb
Brian’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.0° to 1.2° orb
Brian’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Brian’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextileNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
Brian’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.3° to 2.5° orb
Brian’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.3° orb
Brian’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineMars2.7° to 3.6° orb
Brian’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.4° orb
Brian’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.7° to 3.9° orb
Brian’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.4° to 4.6° orb
Brian’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
Brian’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.7° to 4.9° orb
Brian’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Brian’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Brian absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresGemini 23°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Brian feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 14°49′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Brian is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 29°41′ (moves 0.33° 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. Brian is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 6°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Brian carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.1°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.7°
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°).
Brian’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. ♆ Neptune11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Brian 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 Brian’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.
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
Kite · Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Mars 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Brian Schmidt, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Brian’s cards
Every card is computed from February 24, 1967, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Brian Schmidt, 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
Brian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q201452, 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 Tim Wetherell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Brian Schmidt at Wikipedia, mso.anu.edu.au, IMDb and X.
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 Brian Schmidt.
Quick answers about Brian Schmidt’s chart
- How old is Brian Schmidt?
- Brian Schmidt is 59 years old, born February 24, 1967 in Missoula, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Brian Schmidt?
- Brian Schmidt is a Pisces: born February 24, 1967, 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 Fire Goat.
- What is Brian Schmidt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 24, 1967 birth.
- What time was Brian Schmidt 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 Brian Schmidt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 24, 1967 birth date.
- What is Brian Schmidt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 24, 1967 birth date.
- Where is Brian Schmidt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Brian Schmidt's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
