Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz (born October 4, 1956, Vienna, Austria), aged 70, is an Austrian and German actor. Notable films include Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained and Spectre. Waltz's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and Bavarian TV Awards.
Christoph Waltz’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Christoph
Christoph Waltz’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Christoph in the U.S.?
#6525
US rank in 2025
~1,192
Americans share it since 1952
1969
its peak year
The SSA recorded 8 American boys named Christoph in 1956: 3,008th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Christoph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on C (3) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 8, which numerology reads as ambition.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Christoph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · 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 Christoph apart
The Bavarian TV Awards came in 1997, when Christoph Waltz was 41.
Study took Christoph Waltz to Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Christoph Waltz was 21 when the work began in 1977.
On the family side, Christoph Waltz was born to Elisabeth Urbancic and Johannes Waltz and married Judith Holste.
Wikipedia files Christoph Waltz under Austrian expatriates in England, German expatriate male actors in the United States and European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award recipients.
Susan Sarandon (1946) and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Max Reinhardt Seminar and Theresianum
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (2013), Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (2013) and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (2009)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1977
- Citizenship
- United States and Germany
- Languages
- French, German and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 80
What the chart says
Christoph, according to the stars
Core essence
Christoph makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Christoph 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Christoph cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Christoph needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Christoph wants to be loved
Christoph wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Christoph openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Christoph creates
How Christoph makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Christoph builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Christoph 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 8 is the powerhouse. Christoph is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Christoph 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 Christoph's birth date. Working below.
Where Christoph sits
Six lines
Christoph’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Christoph Waltz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vienna 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 Vienna that night
Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Vienna at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 13.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Vienna sits at 48.2°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −41.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Vienna, Austria
- Lives in
- Vienna · Los Angeles
Wikidata records Vienna and Los Angeles as Christoph Waltz's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Christoph Waltz: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Christoph's chart is
Chart pattern score
26 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3 planets 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Christoph Waltz's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Christoph Waltz was born on October 4, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Christoph Waltz's birth date, October 4, 1956, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Christoph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Christoph Waltz's date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Christoph Waltz combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Christoph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Libra 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
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.2° orb
Christoph’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Christoph’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.8° to 1.8° orb
Christoph’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.8° to 1.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.9° to 2.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter4.9° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.9° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune6.9° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.4° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileUranusorb from 4.4° to 5.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Christoph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 6°30′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 14°31′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 22°11′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 20°43′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.5°
Christoph’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Christoph’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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
- Sun quincunx Mars 2.2°
More people like Christoph
Other actors
- Nathan Lane1956
- Vanna White1957
- La Toya Jackson1956
- Rita Wilson1956
- Martin Semmelrogge1955
- Marlon Jackson1957
Born in Austria
- Maximilian SchellSwiss and Austrian film and stage actor
- Philipp MweneAustrian association football player
- Elfriede JelinekAustrian playwright and novelist
- Georg StumpfAustrian real estate investor
- Eric KandelAmerican neuropsychiatrist
- Marcel SabitzerAustrian footballer
More charts like Christoph’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Alexander NübelGerman association football player
- Xaver SchlagerAustrian association football player
- Ferdi KadıoğluTurkish association football player (born 1999)
Born in Monkey years
- Terry CrewsAmerican actor, television host, and American football player
- Netta BarzilaiIsraeli singer
- Laura PreponAmerican actress and director
Also born on October 4
- Susan Sarandon1946
- Vitaly Ginzburg1916
- Dakota Johnson1989
- Alicia Silverstone1976
- Melissa Benoist1988
- Liev Schreiber1967
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Kingsley AmisEnglish novelist, poet, critic and teacher
- Anna BurnsNorthern Irish writer
- Graham SwiftEnglish writer (born 1949)
Other Libra Monkey charts
- Bronny JamesAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Isaiah CollierAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Barry KeoghanIrish actor
- Chantel JeffriesAmerican DJ, model, and YouTube personality
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Charles Howard McIlwainAmerican constitutional historian
- Esther Forbesnovelist
- Charles WarrenAmerican legal scholar
- John L. GauntAmerican photographer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Anton ZeilingerAustrian quantum physicist (born 1945)
- F. Sherwood RowlandAmerican chemist
- Austen ChamberlainBritish politician
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Christoph’s cards
Computed from October 4, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Christoph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76819 (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 LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Christoph Waltz at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Christoph Waltz.
Quick answers about Christoph Waltz’s chart
- How old is Christoph Waltz?
- Christoph Waltz is 70 years old, born October 4, 1956 in Vienna, Austria.
- What zodiac sign is Christoph Waltz?
- Christoph Waltz is a Libra: born October 4, 1956, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Christoph Waltz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1956 birth.
- What is Christoph Waltz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Christoph Waltz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Christoph Waltz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Christoph Waltz's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
