Fran Walsh
Fran Walsh (born January 10, 1959, Wellington, New Zealand), aged 67, is a New Zealand screenwriter and producer. Walsh's honours include Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Academy Award for Best Picture and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
Fran Walsh’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Fran
Fran Walsh’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Fran in the U.S.?
#11111
US rank in 2025
~5,339
Americans share it since 1912
1960
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1959, Fran came 605th among girls and 2,145th among boys, carried by 270 American girls and 15 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Fran’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
2
Soul Urge · closeness
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on F (6) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Fran’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
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 1958, 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 Fran apart
Fran Walsh took the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004, at 45.
Training came by way of Wellington Girls' College and Victoria University of Wellington.
The working life starts in 1983, at 24.
On the family side, Fran Walsh was married Peter Jackson and raised 2 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Fran Walsh: Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, New Zealand women film producers and Mass media people from Wellington City.
The same date carries Chris Van Hollen. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Wellington Girls' College and Victoria University of Wellington
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Picture (2004), Academy Award for Best Original Song (2004) and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (2004)
- Nominated for
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
- Working from
- 1983
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 31
What the chart says
Fran, according to the stars
Core essence
Fran is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Fran is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Fran wants to be loved
Fran wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Fran be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Fran creates
How Fran makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Fran creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Fran 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Fran is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Fran is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Fran's birth date. Working below.
Where Fran sits
Six lines
Fran’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Fran Walsh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wellington 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 Wellington that night
Computed for 41.29°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wellington at 9 p.m. that evening: Acamar of Eridanus, within 11.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.3°S, Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Lives in
- Wellington
Wikidata records Wellington as Fran Walsh'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 Fran Walsh: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Fran's chart is
Chart pattern score
17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Fran Walsh at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Fran Walsh's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Fran Walsh was born on January 10, 1959, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Fran Walsh's birth date, January 10, 1959, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Fran’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Fran Walsh's date-only chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Fran Walsh combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Fran’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Capricorn or 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
stableSuntrineMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
Fran’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.8° to 2.1° orb
Fran’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableVenussquareNeptune2.8° to 4.0° orb
Fran’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.2° to 5.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.4° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.9° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 3.0° to 16.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Fran’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 20°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 13°15′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 10°44′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 10°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron square Mars 1.2°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.7°
Fran’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Fran’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
Fran’s family here
One relative of Fran Walsh also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Fran
Chris Van Hollen was born on January 10, 1959 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. From Wellington, at 41.3°S, Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Fran
Other film producers
- Frank Sinatra1915
- Ryan Reynolds1976
- Dolly Parton1946
- Scott Stuber1968
- Isabelle Huppert1953
- Jason Alexander1959
Born in New Zealand
- Peter ArnettAmerican journalist
- Russell CroweNew Zealand actor
- Vaughan JonesNew Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Selina Tusitala MarshNew Zealand poet-scholar
- Vincent O'SullivanNew Zealand writer
- Bill EnglishPrime Minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017
More charts like Fran’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Louis TomlinsonEnglish singer and songwriter
- Finn WolfhardCanadian actor and musician
- Logan LermanAmerican actor
Born in Dog years
- Frank LoesserAmerican songwriter
- Bernard RandsBritish-born American composer
- Barry BlittAmerican political cartoonist
Also born on January 10
- Robert Wilson1936
- Jemaine Clement1974
- Faith Kipyegon1994
- Reneé Rapp2000
- Rauw Alejandro1993
- Chris Van Hollen1959
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- John Edward MackAmerican psychiatrist
- John DarntonAmerican journalist
- Charles WuorinenAmerican composer
Other Capricorn Dog charts
- Albert SchweitzerFrench-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher
- Audrey WurdemannAmerican poet
- George KellyAmerican playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor
- Carlos P. RomuloFilipino politician and diplomat
Other Tidal Strategists
- Dalton KnechtAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Jae'Sean TateAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Nikola VučevićMontenegrin basketball player (born 1990)
- Robert Williams IIIAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Michael Levittbiophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
- Mary E. BrunkowAmerican molecular biologist and immunologist
- Richard Laurence Millington SyngeBritish biochemist
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Fran’s cards
Computed from January 10, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Fran’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q116861 (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 New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Fran Walsh 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 Fran Walsh.
Quick answers about Fran Walsh’s chart
- How old is Fran Walsh?
- Fran Walsh is 67 years old, born January 10, 1959 in Wellington, New Zealand.
- What zodiac sign is Fran Walsh?
- Fran Walsh is a Capricorn: born January 10, 1959, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Fran Walsh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1959 birth.
- What is Fran Walsh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Fran Walsh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Fran Walsh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Fran Walsh's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
