Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington (born December 28, 1954, Mount Vernon, United States, 00:09), aged 71, is an American actor. Notable films include Philadelphia, American Gangster and Training Day. Washington's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
Denzel Washington’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Denzel
Denzel Washington’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Denzel in the U.S.?
#1166
US rank in 2025
~11,779
Americans share it since 1906
1993
its peak year
The SSA recorded 11 American boys named Denzel in 1954: 2,488th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Denzel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Denzel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Ivory · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1954, 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 Denzel apart
John von Neumann (1903) and Liu Xiaobo (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Denzel, according to the stars
Core essence
Denzel is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Denzel is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Denzel 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 Denzel 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 Denzel wants to be loved
Denzel wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Denzel even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Denzel creates
How Denzel 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. Denzel 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: Denzel is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Denzel is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Denzel 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 Denzel's birth date. Working below.
Where Denzel sits
Six lines
Denzel’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
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Read from the sky above Mount Vernon at 00:09, Denzel Washington’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Mount Vernon that night
Computed for 40.91°N, at the documented birth time.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Mount Vernon at the birth hour, 81.3° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Mount Vernon sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Mount Vernon on any night.
Sun 72° below the horizon, Moon down and 8% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Mount Vernon, United States
- Lives in
- Beverly
Wikidata records Beverly as Denzel Washington's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Denzel's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Treasurer 天府 in 丑
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Denzel Washington's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Denzel Washington was born on December 28, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Denzel Washington's birth date, December 28, 1954, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Denzel’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Denzel Washington's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Mercury in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Uranus in the 10th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Denzel Washington's timed chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Denzel Washington combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Denzel’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 0.6° orb
Denzel’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupiterconjunctionUranusapplying · 0.8° orb
Denzel’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 0.9° orb
Denzel’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 1.5° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 1.6° orb
VenustrineUranusapplying · 3.3° orb
VenussquarePlutoapplying · 3.5° orb
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 4.2° orb
VenusconjunctionSaturnseparating · 5.1° orb
VenustrineMarsapplying · 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Denzel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 27°23′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°20′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 8°01′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 13°39′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°51′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros trine Ascendant 0.4°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres square Mars 0.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Moon 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.3°
Denzel’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Denzel’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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.8°
- Moon semi-sextile Mercury 1.5°
Denzel’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 2 | Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 11 | Venus, Saturn | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 10 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 2 | Sun, Mercury | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 10 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 1 | Mars | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Pisces, house 6 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 2 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Aquarius, house 5 | Jupiter, Uranus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 4 | Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 4 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Also born on December 28
- John von Neumann1903
- Liu Xiaobo1955
- Sienna Miller1981
- Salvador Sobral1989
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- Ratan Tata1937
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- Nikola MoroCroatian association football player
- Houssem AouarAlgerian-French footballer (born 1998)
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Denzel’s cards
Computed from December 28, 1954. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Denzel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42101 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Denzel Washington 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 Denzel Washington.
Quick answers about Denzel Washington’s chart
- How old is Denzel Washington?
- Denzel Washington is 71 years old, born December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Denzel Washington?
- Denzel Washington is a Capricorn: born December 28, 1954, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What is Denzel Washington's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 28, 1954 birth.
- What time was Denzel Washington born?
- 00:09 local time in Mount Vernon, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Denzel Washington's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 00:09 birth time in Mount Vernon, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Denzel Washington?
- Denzel Washington is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Denzel Washington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Denzel Washington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 27°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Denzel Washington's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 21°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Denzel Washington's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
