Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds (born February 9, 1953, Belfast, United Kingdom), aged 73, is a Northern Irish actor. Hinds's honours include Theatre World Award.
Ciarán Hinds’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Ciarán
Ciarán Hinds’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
What Ciarán’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
2
Soul Urge · closeness
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ciarán’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Ciarán apart
J. M. Coetzee (1940) and Tom Hiddleston (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ciarán, according to the stars
Core essence
Ciarán is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Ciarán is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Ciarán is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Ciarán needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Ciarán wants to be loved
Ciarán 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 Ciarán creates
How Ciarán makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ciarán creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Ciarán is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Ciarán is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ciarán gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Ciarán's birth date. Working below.
Where Ciarán sits
Six lines
Ciarán’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Ciarán Hinds
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Belfast 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 Belfast that night
Computed for 54.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Belfast was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 80.4° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Belfast sits at 54.6°N, high enough that Vega, 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 −35.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 23% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
How unusual Ciarán's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Ciarán Hinds's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Ciarán Hinds was born on February 9, 1953, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Ciarán Hinds's birth date, February 9, 1953, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Ciarán’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ciarán Hinds' date-only chart is Sun opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Ciarán Hinds combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Ciarán’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Sagittarius 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
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.7° to 2.5° orb
Ciarán’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.9° to 2.7° orb
Ciarán’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunoppositionPluto1.1° to 2.2° orb
Ciarán’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.4° to 4.3° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.0° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ciarán’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 17°20′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 4°44′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 13°25′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 17°09′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.3°
Ciarán’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Ciarán’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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
More people like Ciarán
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Born in United Kingdom
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More charts like Ciarán’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Christie BrinkleyAmerican model and actress
- Bobby BrownAmerican R&B singer (born 1969)
- Edward BurnsAmerican actor and director
Born in Dragon years
- Tyquan ThorntonAmerican football player
- Jordan BattleAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Henry To'oTo'oAmerican football player
Also born on February 9
- J. M. Coetzee1940
- Tom Hiddleston1981
- Sócrates1954
- Michael B. Jordan1987
- Bella Poarch1997
- Avan Jogia1992
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Brandon SomAmerican poet
- Paul W. WardAmerican newspaper editor
- Loren JenkinsAmerican war correspondent
Other Aquarius Dragon charts
- Jenny ShipleyNew Zealand politician
- Yara ShahidiAmerican actress
- John CornynAmerican politician and attorney (born 1952)
- Grigori RasputinRussian mystic
Other Gilded Guardians
- Stefanos TsitsipasGreek tennis player
- Brigitte HelmGerman actress
- Claude RainsBritish actor
- John CazaleAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Jordan McLaughlinAmerican basketball player
- Julian ChampagnieAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Ace BaileyAmerican basketball player (born 2006)
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Ciarán’s cards
Computed from February 9, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
2 · Diplomat♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ciarán’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q314892 (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 WelcomeScreenUK, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ciarán Hinds 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 Ciarán Hinds.
Quick answers about Ciarán Hinds’s chart
- How old is Ciarán Hinds?
- Ciarán Hinds is 73 years old, born February 9, 1953 in Belfast, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ciarán Hinds?
- Ciarán Hinds is an Aquarius: born February 9, 1953, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Ciarán Hinds's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1953 birth.
- How tall is Ciarán Hinds?
- Ciarán Hinds is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ciarán Hinds's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ciarán Hinds's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ciarán Hinds's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ciarán Hinds's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
