Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959, Paddington, United Kingdom), aged 67, is an English actress and screenwriter. Thompson is best known for Beauty and the Beast, Sense and Sensibility and Saving Mr. Banks. Thompson's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Actress and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Emma Thompson’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Emma Thompson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Emma in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~778,172
Americans share it since 1880
2003
its peak year
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Emma’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Emma, according to the stars
Core essence
Emma leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Emma is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Emma is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Emma needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Emma wants to be loved
Emma wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Emma like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Emma creates
How Emma 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. Emma 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: Emma is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Emma is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Emma does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Emma's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Emma Thompson's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 15, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Emma Thompson's birth date, April 15, 1959, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Emma’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Emma Thompson's date-only chart is Venus opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Emma Thompson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Emma’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Emma Thompson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Emma’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Emma’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.1° to 0.5° orb
Emma’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquarePluto0.5° to 1.7° orb
Emma’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextilePluto0.7° to 1.3° orb
Emma’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Emma’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.2° orb
Emma’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareMars1.6° to 1.9° orb
Emma’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.7° to 3.3° orb
Emma’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.9° to 4.5° orb
Emma’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.0° orb
Emma’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.2° orb
Emma’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Emma’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 26°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Emma making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 26°37′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Emma is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCancer 1°07′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Emma is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 20°59′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Emma needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Emma is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros square Mercury 0.0°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Mars 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.8°
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°).
Emma’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Emma is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Emma’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Pluto · Venus, Jupiter, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 excluded without a birth time.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Emma Thompson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Emma’s cards
Every card is computed from April 15, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Emma Thompson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Emma’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q168724, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Kalai Ramu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Emma Thompson at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Emma Thompson.
Quick answers about Emma Thompson’s chart
- How old is Emma Thompson?
- Emma Thompson is 67 years old, born April 15, 1959 in Paddington, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Emma Thompson?
- Emma Thompson is an Aries: born April 15, 1959, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Emma Thompson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 15, 1959 birth.
- What time was Emma Thompson born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Emma Thompson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the April 15, 1959 birth date.
- What is Emma Thompson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 15, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Emma Thompson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Emma Thompson's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
