Edward Norton
Edward Norton (born August 18, 1969, Boston, United States, 14:00), aged 57, is an American actor. Norton is best known for American History X and Fight Club. Norton's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor and Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Edward Norton’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Edward
Edward Norton’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Edward in the U.S.?
#224
US rank in 2025
~1,308,955
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
Edward ranked 32nd among boys and 1,389th among girls in 1969, the year of this birth, with 12,451 American boys and 69 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Edward’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on E (5) 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
Edward’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
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 1969, 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 Edward apart
The shelf Edward Norton is read from: American History X and Fight Club.
The classrooms behind this chart: Wilde Lake High School and Ezra Stiles College.
The working life starts in 1993, at 24.
Edward Norton was born to Lydia Robinson Rouse and Edward Mower Norton Jr., married Shauna Robertson and raised one child.
The same date carries Christian Slater. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- American History X and Fight Club
- Educated at
- Wilde Lake High School, Ezra Stiles College and Yale College
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1996), Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (1996) and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor (1996)
- Nominated for
- Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy and Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead
- Working from
- 1993
- Sport
- athletics
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 90
What the chart says
Edward, according to the stars
Core essence
Edward is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Edward 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, Edward cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Edward needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Edward wants to be loved
Edward 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. Edward gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Edward creates
How Edward makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Edward creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Edward is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Edward 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Edward 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 Edward's birth date. Working below.
Where Edward sits
Six lines
Edward’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Edward Norton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Boston at 14:00, Edward Norton’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 82.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -57° below the horizon, Moon up and 28% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Boston, United States
- Lives in
- New York City
Wikidata records New York City as Edward Norton'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 Edward's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Solar Star 太陽, The Lunar Star 太陰 in 丑
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · 1 unaspected planet · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Edward Norton's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.
What Leo means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Edward Norton was born on August 18, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Edward Norton's birth date, August 18, 1969, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Edward’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Edward Norton's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Saturn in the 7th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Edward Norton's timed chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Edward Norton combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Edward’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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 0.4° orb
Edward’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercurysextileVenusseparating · 0.7° orb
Edward’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.1° orb
Edward’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.6° orb
SunsextileMoonseparating · 3.9° orb
MercuryconjunctionPlutoapplying · 5.3° orb
MercurysquareMarsseparating · 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Edward’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°13′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 0°09′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 16°51′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 8°38′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 17°35′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.6°
- Ceres square Moon 0.6°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Ascendant 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.9°
Edward’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Edward’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Moon, Jupiter, UranusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Mars 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Edward’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 11 | Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 12 | Mars | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 7 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 9 | Saturn | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 11 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Libra, house 12 | Venus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 10 | Sun | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 11 | Mercury, Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 9 | Moon, Jupiter, Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Edward
Christian Slater was born on August 18, 1969 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Boston sits at 42.4°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Edward
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Born in United States
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on August 18
- Patrick Swayze1952
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- G-Dragon1988
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Tim AllenAmerican actor and comedian
- Kevin DillonAmerican actor
- Gary Merrillfilm and television character actor from the United States
Other Leo Rooster charts
- Dak PrescottAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Jermod McCoyAmerican football player (born 2005)
- Tidjane SalaünFrench basketball player (born 2005)
- Kon KnueppelAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Harold HammAmerican businessman
- Vladimir LisinRussian businessman
- Barry LamTaiwanese businessman (born 1949)
- Yōichi ErikawaJapanese video game director and businessman
Other Scorpio risings with documented times
- Kevin SmithAmerican filmmaker (born 1970)
- Kate WalshAmerican actress
- Johnny WeirAmerican figure skater and television commentator
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Famous people with Life Path 6
- Alexander AlbonThai-British motorsports racing driver
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Edward’s cards
Computed from August 18, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Edward’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q125904 (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 Max Surprenant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Edward Norton at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Edward Norton.
Quick answers about Edward Norton’s chart
- How old is Edward Norton?
- Edward Norton is 57 years old, born August 18, 1969 in Boston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Edward Norton?
- Edward Norton is a Leo: born August 18, 1969, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time.
- What is Edward Norton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 18, 1969 birth.
- What time was Edward Norton born?
- 14:00 local time in Boston, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Edward Norton's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 14:00 birth time in Boston, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Edward Norton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Edward Norton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Edward Norton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 17°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Edward Norton's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
