Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (born August 8, 1937, Los Angeles, United States, 17:07), aged 89, is an American actor (born 1937). Hoffman's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Dustin Hoffman’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
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Dustin Hoffman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Dustin in the U.S.?
#729
US rank in 2025
~209,721
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Dustin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Dustin apart
Roger Federer (1981) and Paul Dirac (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Dustin, according to the stars
Core essence
Dustin is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Dustin is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Dustin is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Dustin needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Dustin wants to be loved
Dustin wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Dustin gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Dustin creates
How Dustin makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Dustin creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Dustin is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Dustin is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Dustin has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Dustin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Dustin Hoffman's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Dustin Hoffman was born on August 8, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Dustin Hoffman's birth date, August 8, 1937, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Dustin’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Dustin Hoffman's timed chart: Venus in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Saturn in the 4th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Dustin Hoffman's timed chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Dustin Hoffman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Dustin’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
VenussquareSaturnseparating · 0.0° orb
Dustin’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 0.6° orb
Dustin’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MarstrinePlutoseparating · 1.2° orb
Dustin’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 1.3° orb
Dustin’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
MercurytrineUranusapplying · 1.9° orb
Dustin’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
JupitertrineNeptuneapplying · 2.0° orb
Dustin’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunsquareUranusseparating · 2.4° orb
Dustin’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb
Dustin’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoontrineUranusseparating · 4.5° orb
Dustin’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 4.6° orb
Dustin’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.8° orb
Dustin’s mind and imagination act as one.
JupitertrineUranusapplying · 5.8° orb
Dustin’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SaturntrinePlutoapplying · 5.9° orb
Dustin’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonconjunctionMercuryseparating · 6.4° orb
Dustin’s feelings and mind act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Dustin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.
⚷ ChironGemini 28°51′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Dustin turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 24°46′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Dustin is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosTaurus 9°48′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Dustin wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°54′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Dustin at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°25′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Dustin leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.1°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.3°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Dustin’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; angular in the fourth house; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Dustin is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Dustin’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Virgo · Moon, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
Grand trine · Moon, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
- Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.
- Moon quintile Mars 0.0°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Venus biquintile Mars 1.3°
- Moon quintile Venus 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
Dustin’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 4 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 5 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 9 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 12 | Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 7 | Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 9 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 9 | Venus, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 8 | Sun | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 9 | Moon, Mercury, Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 7 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 7 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 1 | Mars | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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- Roger Federer1981
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Dustin’s cards
Every card is computed from August 8, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Dustin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42930, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dustin Hoffman at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Dustin Hoffman’s chart
- How old is Dustin Hoffman?
- Dustin Hoffman is 89 years old, born August 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Dustin Hoffman?
- Dustin Hoffman is a Leo: born August 8, 1937, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox.
- What is Dustin Hoffman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1937 birth.
- What time was Dustin Hoffman born?
- 17:07 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Dustin Hoffman's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 17:07 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Dustin Hoffman?
- Dustin Hoffman is 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Dustin Hoffman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 8, 1937 birth date.
- What is Dustin Hoffman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 28°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 8, 1937 birth time.
- Where is Dustin Hoffman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Dustin Hoffman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
