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Emmy Rossum

Emmy Rossum (born September 12, 1986, New York City, United States), aged 40, is an American actress. Notable films include The Day After Tomorrow, Mystic River and Shameless.

Emmy Rossum’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Emmy Rossum’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Emmy in the U.S.?

#445

US rank in 2025

~12,963

Americans share it since 1885

2025

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1986, Emmy came 3,153rd, carried by 29 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Emmy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

5

Soul Urge · freedom

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on E (5) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Emmy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

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 1986, 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 Emmy apart

Spence School and Columbia University shaped the training.

The family line: married Sam Esmail and Justin Siegel and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Emmy Rossum: Entertainers from Manhattan, American operatic sopranos and Activists from New York City.

The same date carries Yūto Nagatomo. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Spence School, Columbia University and Stanford University
Instruments
voice
Working from
1993
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
96

What the chart says

Emmy, according to the stars

Core essence

Emmy notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Emmy is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Emmy is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Emmy needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Emmy wants to be loved

Emmy 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 Emmy even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Emmy creates

How Emmy makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Emmy creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Emmy is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Emmy 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Emmy does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Emmy's birth date. Working below.

Where Emmy sits

Six lines

Emmy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Emmy

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Emmy

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Emmy

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Emmy

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Emmy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Emmy

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.0° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.

The Moon, 69% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.

How unusual Emmy's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

T-square onto Uranus · A bowl chart · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Emmy Rossum's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Fire Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Emmy Rossum was born on September 12, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Emmy Rossum's birth date, September 12, 1986, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Emmy’s chart

Emmy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.8° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.1° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.1° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.4° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 1.9° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2° orbSun in Virgo · 19°36′☉19°Moon in Capricorn · 7°26′☽7°Mercury in Virgo · 25°42′☿25°Venus in Scorpio · 4°25′♀4°Mars in Capricorn · 17°40′♂17°Jupiter in Pisces · 17°38′ · retrograde♃℞17°Saturn in Sagittarius · 4°07′♄4°Uranus in Sagittarius · 18°28′♅18°Neptune in Capricorn · 3°02′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Scorpio · 5°30′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarssextileJupiter0.0° to 0.3° orb

    Emmy’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquareUranus0.7° to 1.6° orb

    Emmy’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.7° to 1.5° orb

    Emmy’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb

  • stableVenussextileNeptune1.0° to 1.8° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter1.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars1.6° to 2.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Emmy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 21°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 17°26′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 2°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 28°25′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Mars 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.2°
  • Eros square Venus 1.5°
  • Chiron square Sun 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.5°
  • Eros square Pluto 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 2.7°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.8°

Emmy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Emmy’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Sun, Jupiter, UranusAn 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 semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 0.9°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Venus quintile Mars 1.3°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.4°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°

Born the same day as Emmy

Yūto Nagatomo was born on September 12, 1986 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.7°N, the sky above New York City stops at −49.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households

Emmy’s cards

Computed from September 12, 1986. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Emmy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q35912 (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 PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Emmy Rossum at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Emmy Rossum.

Quick answers about Emmy Rossum’s chart

How old is Emmy Rossum?
Emmy Rossum is 40 years old, born September 12, 1986 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Emmy Rossum?
Emmy Rossum is a Virgo: born September 12, 1986, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Emmy Rossum's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1986 birth.
What is Emmy Rossum's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Emmy Rossum's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Emmy Rossum's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Emmy Rossum's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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