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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Emma
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.?
#3
US rank in 2025
~778,172
Americans share it since 1880
2003
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,056 American girls and 5 boys named Emma in 1959: 270th among girls and 4,170th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Emma’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Emma’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Emma apart
The record Emma Thompson is measured by: Brave, Beauty and the Beast and Sense and Sensibility.
Study took Emma Thompson to The Camden School for Girls and Newnham College.
Emma Thompson was 20 when the work began in 1979.
On the family side, Emma Thompson was born to Phyllida Law and Eric Thompson, married Greg Wise and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Emma Thompson under British feminist writers, Best Actress BAFTA Award (television) winners and Actors from the London Borough of Camden.
Emma Watson (1990) and Tomas Tranströmer (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Brave, Beauty and the Beast and Sense and Sensibility
- Educated at
- The Camden School for Girls, Newnham College and University of Cambridge
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actress (1993), Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (1996) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama (1993)
- Nominated for
- European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award and European Film Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1979
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- French, Spanish and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 88
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. Working below.
Where Emma sits
Six lines
Emma’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 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.
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 Emma Thompson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paddington 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 Paddington that night
Computed for 51.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Paddington at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 6.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Paddington sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Paddington on any night.
The Moon, 46% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Paddington, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- West Hampstead
Wikidata records West Hampstead as Emma Thompson'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 Emma Thompson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Emma's chart is
Chart pattern score
54 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Pluto · 2 planets 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Cancer 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
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
stableMarssextilePluto0.7° to 1.3° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.2° orb
stableMercurysquareMars1.6° to 1.9° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 26°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 26°37′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 1°07′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 20°59′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°40′ (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 0.0°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Mars 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.8°
Emma’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Emma’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Emma
Other screenwriters
- Drew Carey1958
- Robert J. Sawyer1960
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- Susanne Bier1960
- Jennifer Tilly1958
- Ian McDonald1960
Born in United Kingdom
- Stephen FryBritish comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
- Lisa VanderpumpEnglish actress, businesswoman, executive producer, and television personality (born 1960)
- Tony AbbottPrime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015
- Colin FirthEnglish actor and producer
- Miranda RichardsonBritish actress
- Hugh GrantBritish actor
More charts like Emma’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Riley P. BechtelAmerican billionaire heir and businessman
- Steve BisciottiAmerican football executive
- Vadim MoshkovichRussian businessman
Born in Pig years
- Peter AppelAmerican actor
- Sean AstinAmerican actor (born 1971)
- Gale HansenAmerican actor
Also born on April 15
- Emma Watson1990
- Tomas Tranströmer1931
- Seth Rogen1982
- Jordan Chiles2001
- James Middleton1987
- Chris Stapleton1978
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Jenny SlateAmerican actress and comedian (born 1982)
- Scott StuberAmerican film producer
- Jeremy VuoloAmerican soccer player
Other Aries Pig charts
- SelenaAmerican singer
- Elton JohnBritish singer, songwriter and musician
- Ewan McGregorScottish actor
- Alberto FernándezPresident of Argentina from 2019 to 2023
Other Radiant Visionarys
- Declan RiceEnglish footballer (born 1999)
- Beauden BarrettNew Zealand rugby union player
- Louis Rees-ZammitWelsh rugby and American football player
- Maro ItojeEnglish rugby union player
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Allyson FelixAmerican track and field athlete
- Matthew FoxAmerican actor (born 1966)
- Ginnifer GoodwinAmerican actress
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Emma’s cards
Computed from April 15, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Emma’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q168724 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Emma Thompson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Emma Thompson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
