Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke (born November 6, 1970, Austin, United States), aged 56, is an American actor and writer. Notable films include Dead Poets Society, Lord of War and Gattaca. Hawke's honours include Film Independent Spirit Awards and Donostia Award.
Ethan Hawke’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Ethan
Ethan Hawke’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Ethan in the U.S.?
#24
US rank in 2025
~488,144
Americans share it since 1882
2004
its peak year
The SSA recorded 268 American boys named Ethan in 1970: 495th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ethan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on E (5) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ethan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
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 1970, 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 Ethan apart
The Donostia Award came in 2016, when Ethan Hawke was 46.
Study took Ethan Hawke to West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South and Packer Collegiate Institute.
Ethan Hawke was 15 when the work began in 1985.
On the family side, Ethan Hawke was born to Leslie Carole Green and James Steven Hawke, married Uma Thurman and Ryan Hawke and raised 4 children.
Wikipedia files Ethan Hawke under Hun School of Princeton alumni, Best Supporting Actor Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners and Film directors from New Jersey.
Sally Field (1946) and Emma Stone (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, Packer Collegiate Institute and Hun School of Princeton
- Awards
- Donostia Award (2016)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- Working from
- 1985
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 81
What the chart says
Ethan, according to the stars
Core essence
Ethan does not do surface. The core of Ethan is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Ethan is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Ethan needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Ethan needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Ethan wants to be loved
Ethan 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 Ethan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ethan creates
How Ethan makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ethan creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Ethan is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ethan 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Ethan fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Ethan's birth date. Working below.
Where Ethan sits
Six lines
Ethan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Ethan Hawke
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Austin 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 Austin that night
Computed for 30.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Austin at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 7.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Austin sits at 30.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman cannot be seen from Austin at all: they sit past the −59.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 57% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Austin, United States
- Lives in
- Boerum Hill
Wikidata records Boerum Hill as Ethan Hawke'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 Ethan Hawke: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ethan's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Fire planets · Venus retrograde
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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Ethan Hawke's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 6, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Ethan Hawke was born on November 6, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Ethan Hawke's birth date, November 6, 1970, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Ethan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ethan Hawke's date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ethan Hawke combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Ethan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Aquarius 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.6° orb
Ethan’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.5° orb
Ethan’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Ethan’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.6° to 2.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.5° to 3.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 5.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 6.6° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.1° to 6.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.0° to 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Ethan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°36′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 27°45′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°36′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°28′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 7°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Sun 0.5°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.5°
Ethan’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Ethan’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.1°
Ethan’s family here
2 relatives of Ethan Hawke also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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Also born on November 6
- Sally Field1946
- Emma Stone1988
- Conchita Wurst1988
- Shayne Lamas1985
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Ethan’s cards
Computed from November 6, 1970. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ethan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q484615 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ethan Hawke at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ethan Hawke.
Quick answers about Ethan Hawke’s chart
- How old is Ethan Hawke?
- Ethan Hawke is 56 years old, born November 6, 1970 in Austin, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ethan Hawke?
- Ethan Hawke is a Scorpio: born November 6, 1970, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Ethan Hawke's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 6, 1970 birth.
- How tall is Ethan Hawke?
- Ethan Hawke is 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ethan Hawke's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ethan Hawke's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ethan Hawke's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ethan Hawke's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
