Chris O'Dowd
Chris O'Dowd (born October 9, 1979, Boyle, Ireland), aged 47, is an Irish actor and comedian (born 1979). O'Dowd is best known for The IT Crowd. O'Dowd's honours include BAFTA's Children & Young People Award - Performer, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series and Theatre World Award.
Chris O'Dowd’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Goat, with 
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Chris O'Dowd’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Chris in the U.S.?
#646
US rank in 2025
~170,417
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Chris’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Chris apart
Brandon Routh shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Chris, according to the stars
Core essence
Chris makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Chris is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Chris wants to be loved
Chris wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Chris gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Chris creates
How Chris 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. Chris 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: Chris 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Chris 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Chris fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Chris's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Chris sits
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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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Chris O'Dowd's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 9, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Goat
Earth GoatArtist first, everything second.
Chris O'Dowd was born on October 9, 1979, which falls in a Earth 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 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Chris O'Dowd's birth date, October 9, 1979, 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 Chris’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chris O'Dowd's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Chris O'Dowd combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Chris’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Chris O'Dowd, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.8° to 2.1° orb
Chris’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
Chris’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb
Chris’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
Chris’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
Chris’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.9° orb
Chris’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileJupiter3.8° to 4.9° orb
Chris’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurysquareMars4.7° to 5.6° orb
Chris’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.7° to 5.9° orb
Chris’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 4.7° to 17.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Chris’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 12°44′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Chris building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 11°41′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Chris looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 11°45′ (moves 0.09° 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. Chris is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 21°09′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Chris needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Chris exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea square Neptune 3.0°
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°).
Chris’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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Chris is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Chris’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 Libra · Sun, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
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-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chris O'Dowd, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Chris
Brandon Routh was born on October 9, 1979 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Chris’s cards
Every card is computed from October 9, 1979, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Chris O'Dowd, 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
Chris’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q933129, 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 Christopher William Adach from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chris O'Dowd at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Chris O'Dowd.
Quick answers about Chris O'Dowd’s chart
- How old is Chris O'Dowd?
- Chris O'Dowd is 47 years old, born October 9, 1979 in Boyle, Ireland.
- What zodiac sign is Chris O'Dowd?
- Chris O'Dowd is a Libra: born October 9, 1979, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat.
- What is Chris O'Dowd's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 9, 1979 birth.
- What time was Chris O'Dowd 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 Chris O'Dowd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the October 9, 1979 birth date.
- What is Chris O'Dowd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 9, 1979 birth date.
- Where is Chris O'Dowd's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Chris O'Dowd's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
