Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell (born November 3, 1962, Aspen, United States), aged 64, is an American computer programmer and businessman.
Gabe Newell’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Gabe
Gabe Newell’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Gabe in the U.S.?
#4591
US rank in 2025
~4,110
Americans share it since 1880
2005
its peak year
The SSA recorded 24 American boys named Gabe in 1962: 1,637th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gabe’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (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
Gabe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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 1962, 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 Gabe apart
The record Gabe Newell is measured by: Valve Corporation, Steam and Heart Of Racing Team.
The schooling ran through Davis Senior High School and Harvard University.
Gabe Newell was 21 when the work began in 1983.
Dolph Lundgren (1957) and Anna Wintour (1949) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Valve Corporation, Steam and Heart Of Racing Team
- Educated at
- Davis Senior High School and Harvard University
- Awards
- BAFTA Fellowship (2013) and D.I.C.E. Awards (2013)
- Working from
- 1983
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Gabe, according to the stars
Core essence
Gabe does not do surface. The core of Gabe 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 Gabe is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Gabe 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 Gabe needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Gabe wants to be loved
Gabe 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 Gabe even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Gabe creates
How Gabe 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. Gabe 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: Gabe 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gabe is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Gabe fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Gabe's birth date. Working below.
Where Gabe sits
Six lines
Gabe’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 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 Gabe Newell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Aspen 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 Aspen that night
Computed for 39.19°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Aspen was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 78.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
Aspen sits at 39.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.8° 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, 38% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
How unusual Gabe's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Sun · 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 →Gabe Newell at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Gabe Newell's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 3, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Gabe Newell was born on November 3, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Gabe Newell's birth date, November 3, 1962, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Gabe’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gabe Newell's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gabe Newell combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Gabe’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Capricorn 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
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.6° orb
Gabe’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.3° orb
Gabe’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Gabe’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.7° to 2.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.8° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.2° to 5.8° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.1° to 6.1° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.7° to 6.1° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Gabe’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°14′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 2°25′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 4°47′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 25°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 11°18′ (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 sextile Mars 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.2°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.4°
Gabe’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Gabe’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, 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.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Saturn, SunAn 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.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.2°
More people like Gabe
Born in United States
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- John SlatteryAmerican actor
- Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
- Tom ColicchioAmerican chef
- Jennifer HigdonAmerican composer
More charts like Gabe’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Vera Michalskibook publisher
- Stephan SchmidheinySwiss businessman
- Vladimir KimKazakhstani businessman
Born in Tiger years
- Penn BadgleyAmerican actor and musician
- Armie HammerAmerican actor
- Cynthia ErivoBritish actress and singer-songwriter
Also born on November 3
- Dolph Lundgren1957
- Anna Wintour1949
- Brenda Fassie1964
- Joseline Hernandez1986
- Kendall Jenner1995
- Roseanne Barr1952
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jayne MansfieldAmerican actress
- Shelley LongAmerican actress and comedian (born 1949)
- Dennis FranzAmerican actor
Other Scorpio Tiger charts
- Ryan AdamsAmerican musician (born 1974)
- Joe AmabileAmerican television personality
- Brooke ElliottAmerican actress and singer
- Jared FollowillAmerican bassist and guitarist
Other Evergreen Architects
- Sidney PoitierBahamian and American actor and diplomat
- Gary CooperAmerican actor
- Da'Vine Joy RandolphAmerican actress
- Michel LegrandFrench film score composer
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Kelly Rizzojournalist
- Jesse PlemonsAmerican actor (born 1988)
- Peter Phillipsson of Anne, Princess Royal (born 1977); nephew of Charles III; first grandchild of Elizabeth II
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Gabe’s cards
Computed from November 3, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gabe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q347418 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gabe Newell.
Quick answers about Gabe Newell’s chart
- How old is Gabe Newell?
- Gabe Newell is 64 years old, born November 3, 1962 in Aspen, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gabe Newell?
- Gabe Newell is a Scorpio: born November 3, 1962, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Gabe Newell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 3, 1962 birth.
- What is Gabe Newell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gabe Newell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gabe Newell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gabe Newell's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
