Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor (born March 31, 1971, Perth, United Kingdom, 20:10), aged 55, is a Scottish actor. McGregor is best known for Moulin Rouge!. McGregor's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and European Film Award for Best Actor.
Ewan McGregor’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Ewan
Ewan McGregor’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Ewan in the U.S.?
#1479
US rank in 2025
~3,236
Americans share it since 1972
2013
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Ewan falls under that line for 1971. Its peak came in 2013, and 3,236 Americans have carried it since 1972.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ewan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
Ewan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, 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 Ewan apart
The shelf Ewan McGregor is read from: Moulin Rouge!.
Morrison's Academy and Guildhall School of Music and Drama shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1993, at 22.
The family line: married Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Eve Mavrakis and raised 3 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Ewan McGregor under Male actors from Perth and Kinross, Actors from Perth, Scotland and Long-distance motorcycle riders.
Octavio Paz (1914) and Christopher Walken (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Moulin Rouge!
- Educated at
- Morrison's Academy and Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Donostia Award (2012), European Film Award for Best Actor (2010) and European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award (2001)
- Nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1993
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 88
What the chart says
Ewan, according to the stars
Core essence
Ewan 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 Ewan 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, Ewan processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Ewan needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Ewan wants to be loved
Ewan wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Ewan, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Ewan creates
How Ewan 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. Ewan 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: Ewan 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ewan 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ewan 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 Ewan's birth date. Working below.
Where Ewan sits
Six lines
Ewan’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.
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Read from the sky above Perth at 20:10, Ewan McGregor’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Perth that night
Computed for 56.40°N, at the documented birth time.
Muscida stood nearest the zenith over Perth at the birth hour, 81.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 56.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −33.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 31% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Perth, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · St John's Wood
Wikidata records Los Angeles and St John's Wood as Ewan McGregor'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 Ewan's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Charmer 貪狼 in 午
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 1/4
Emotional authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · 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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Ewan McGregor's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time.
What Aries means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Ewan McGregor was born on March 31, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Ewan McGregor's birth date, March 31, 1971, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Ewan’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ewan McGregor's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Mars in the 4th house and Uranus in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ewan McGregor's timed chart is Mars square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ewan McGregor combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Ewan’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
MarssquareUranusseparating · 0.0° orb
Ewan’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 0.3° orb
Ewan’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsquareMarsapplying · 1.1° orb
Ewan’s core identity grinds against their drive.
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 1.2° orb
MercurysextileVenusseparating · 3.4° orb
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 3.5° orb
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 3.7° orb
SuntrineJupiterseparating · 4.1° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.8° orb
MoontrineUranusseparating · 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Ewan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAries 9°50′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 19°59′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 25°33′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 4°08′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°19′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.3°
- Chiron square Mars 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.2°
Ewan’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Ewan’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Uranus, MarsAn 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.
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.2°
Ewan’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 6 | Uranus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 12 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 3 | Jupiter, Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 8 | Mars | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 3 | Venus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 4 | Sun, Mercury | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 6 | Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 7 | Moon | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 9 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 7 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 7 | Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Ewan’s cards
Computed from March 31, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ewan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q165518 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ewan McGregor.
Quick answers about Ewan McGregor’s chart
- How old is Ewan McGregor?
- Ewan McGregor is 55 years old, born March 31, 1971 in Perth, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ewan McGregor?
- Ewan McGregor is an Aries: born March 31, 1971, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time.
- What is Ewan McGregor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 31, 1971 birth.
- What time was Ewan McGregor born?
- 20:10 local time in Perth, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Ewan McGregor's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 20:10 birth time in Perth, United Kingdom (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Ewan McGregor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ewan McGregor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ewan McGregor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ewan McGregor's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
