Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943, Astoria, United States), aged 83, is an American actor. Walken is best known for The Jungle Book, More Cowbell and Dune: Part Two. Walken's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
Christopher Walken’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Christopher
Christopher Walken’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Christopher in the U.S.?
#68
US rank in 2025
~2,079,103
Americans share it since 1880
1984
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1943, Christopher came 184th among boys and 2,361st among girls, carried by 888 American boys and 15 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Christopher’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Ronald Walken, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Christopher’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Christopher apart
What keeps Christopher Walken in print: Pulp Fiction, Sleepy Hollow and Catch Me If You Can.
Training came by way of Professional Children's School and Hofstra University.
The working life starts in 1952, at 9.
On the family side, Christopher Walken was married Georgianne Walken.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Christopher Walken: Methodists from New York (state), Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners and Hofstra University alumni.
Octavio Paz (1914) and Ewan McGregor (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Pulp Fiction, Sleepy Hollow and Catch Me If You Can
- Educated at
- Professional Children's School and Hofstra University
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1979), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (2003) and Clarence Derwent Awards (1966)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- Working from
- 1952
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 75
What the chart says
Christopher, according to the stars
Core essence
Christopher leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Christopher is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Christopher needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Christopher needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Christopher wants to be loved
Christopher wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Christopher is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Christopher creates
How Christopher makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Christopher creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Christopher 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Christopher is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Christopher goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Christopher's birth date. Working below.
Where Christopher sits
Six lines
Christopher’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Christopher Walken
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Astoria 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 Astoria that night
Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Astoria at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Astoria on any night.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon down and 19% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Ronald Walken
- Known as
- Christopher Walken
- Born in
- Astoria, United States
- Lives in
- New York City
Wikidata records New York City as Christopher Walken'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 Christopher Walken: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Christopher's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Christopher Walken's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 31, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Christopher Walken was born on March 31, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Christopher Walken's birth date, March 31, 1943, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Christopher’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Christopher Walken's date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Christopher Walken combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Christopher’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Aquarius 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
stableMercurytrinePluto0.3° to 2.3° orb
Christopher’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.9° to 2.8° orb
Christopher’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
Christopher’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.3° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableSuntrinePluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.8° to 6.8° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.3° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Christopher’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 23°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 27°59′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 20°00′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°25′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Eros square Mars 2.7°
Christopher’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Christopher’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.
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
More people like Christopher
Other actors
- Dennis Farina1944
- Paul Freeman1943
- David Clennon1943
- Ian McShane1942
- Keith Richards1943
- Joe Pesci1943
Born in United States
- Don HankeyAmerican businessman
- Eric FonerAmerican historian (born 1943)
- Michael BennettAmerican choreographer
- Doris Kearns GoodwinAmerican biographer and historian (born 1943)
- Richard SmalleyAmerican chemist
- David GeffenAmerican businessman
More charts like Christopher’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Leona LewisBritish singer (born 1985)
- Martin LawrenceAmerican actor and comedian (born 1965)
- Leslie MannAmerican actress
Born in Goat years
- Tomas TranströmerSwedish poet, psychologist and translator
- Louise GlückU.S. poet and Nobel laureate
- Lev LandauSoviet theoretical physicist
Also born on March 31
- Octavio Paz1914
- Ewan McGregor1971
- Angus Young1955
- Jack Antonoff1984
- Liza Koshy1996
- Vice Ganda1976
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Jordan ChilesAmerican artistic gymnast
- Emma CorrinBritish actor (born 1995)
- Angus CloudAmerican actor from California
Other Aries Goat charts
- Hayley KiyokoAmerican actress
- Bhad BhabieAmerican rapper
- Ant AnsteadEnglish television presenter, motor specialist and designer
- Lake BellAmerican actress, director and screenwriter (born 1979)
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Russel B. NyeAmerican academic
- Sonia Nazariojournalist
- Maggie HabermanAmerican journalist (born 1973)
- Robert D. McFaddenAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Annie ErnauxFrench writer (born 1940)
- John O'KeefeAmerican British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- May-Britt MoserNorwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Christopher’s cards
Computed from March 31, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Christopher’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185051 (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 Pierre Vogel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Christopher Walken at Wikipedia, 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 Christopher Walken.
Quick answers about Christopher Walken’s chart
- How old is Christopher Walken?
- Christopher Walken is 83 years old, born March 31, 1943 in Astoria, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Christopher Walken?
- Christopher Walken is an Aries: born March 31, 1943, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Christopher Walken's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 31, 1943 birth.
- What is Christopher Walken's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Christopher Walken's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Christopher Walken's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Christopher Walken's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
