Colin Firth
Colin Firth (born September 10, 1960, Grayshott, United Kingdom), aged 66, is an English actor and producer. Notable films include The King's Speech, Shakespeare in Love and The English Patient. Firth's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Time 100.
Colin Firth’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Colin
Colin Firth’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Colin in the U.S.?
#343
US rank in 2025
~134,151
Americans share it since 1880
2004
its peak year
In 1960, 295 American boys and 7 girls were registered Colin — 463rd among boys and 5,266th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Colin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Colin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, 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 Colin apart
The Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor came in 2001, when Colin Firth was 41.
The schooling ran through Barton Peveril Sixth Form College and Kings' School.
Colin Firth was 23 when the work began in 1983.
Colin Firth was married Livia Giuggioli and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read British expatriates in Nigeria, Actors from East Hampshire District and English expatriates in Italy.
Jack Ma (1964) and Karl Lagerfeld (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, Kings' School and Drama Centre London
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (2011), Time 100 (2011) and European Film Award for Best Actor (2011)
- Nominated for
- Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor and European Film Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1983
- Citizenship
- Italy and United Kingdom
- Languages
- Italian and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 85
What the chart says
Colin, according to the stars
Core essence
Colin notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Colin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Colin is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Colin needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Colin wants to be loved
Colin 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. Colin gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Colin creates
How Colin makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Colin 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: Colin is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Colin 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Colin scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Colin's birth date. Working below.
Where Colin sits
Six lines
Colin’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Colin Firth
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Grayshott 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 Grayshott that night
Computed for 51.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Grayshott was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 82.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
Grayshott sits at 51.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Grayshott at all: they sit past the −38.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon down and 70% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Grayshott, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Chiswick
Wikidata records Chiswick as Colin Firth'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 Colin Firth: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Colin's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Colin Firth's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Colin Firth was born on September 10, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Colin Firth's birth date, September 10, 1960, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Colin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Colin Firth's date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Colin Firth combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Colin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Taurus 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
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb
Colin’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Colin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileUranus0.9° to 1.4° orb
Colin’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.6° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.7° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.3° to 6.7° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Colin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°50′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 27°50′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 28°59′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.1°
Colin’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Colin’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, 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.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Jupiter, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.3°
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Also born on September 10
- Jack Ma1964
- Karl Lagerfeld1933
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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Other Virgo Rat charts
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Other Gilded Storytellers
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Geoffrey A. LandisAmerican aerospace engineer and science fiction author
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Colin’s cards
Computed from September 10, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Colin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q162492 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Colin Firth 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 Colin Firth.
Quick answers about Colin Firth’s chart
- How old is Colin Firth?
- Colin Firth is 66 years old, born September 10, 1960 in Grayshott, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Colin Firth?
- Colin Firth is a Virgo: born September 10, 1960, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Colin Firth's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1960 birth.
- What is Colin Firth's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Colin Firth's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Colin Firth's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Colin Firth's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
