Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne (born May 12, 1950, Dublin, Ireland), aged 76, is an Irish actor. Byrne has played for Stella Maris F.C.. Byrne's honours include Golden Globe Awards, Theatre World Award and IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award.
Gabriel Byrne’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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Gabriel Byrne’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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US rank in 2025
~402,627
Americans share it since 1880
2008
its peak year
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Gabriel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gabriel, according to the stars
Core essence
Gabriel is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Gabriel is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Gabriel wants to be loved
Gabriel wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Gabriel creates
How Gabriel makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Gabriel creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Gabriel 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gabriel 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Gabriel channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Gabriel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gabriel sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Gabriel Byrne's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 12, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Gabriel Byrne was born on May 12, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Gabriel Byrne's birth date, May 12, 1950, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Gabriel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gabriel Byrne's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Gabriel Byrne combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Gabriel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gabriel Byrne, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Gabriel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineMars0.9° to 1.8° orb
Gabriel’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.7° orb
Gabriel’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineMars1.9° to 2.6° orb
Gabriel’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 4.3° orb
Gabriel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareUranus4.2° to 5.2° orb
Gabriel’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquarePluto4.9° to 5.8° orb
Gabriel’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.4° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.5° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 2.9° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 4.7° to 15.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Gabriel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 20°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Gabriel building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 17°21′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Gabriel is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosGemini 20°04′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Gabriel is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 21°16′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Gabriel is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Gabriel is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.9°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.2°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.5°
- Chiron square Mars 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.3°
- Eros square Mars 2.4°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Gabriel’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Gabriel is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Gabriel’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gabriel Byrne, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Gabriel’s cards
Every card is computed from May 12, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gabriel Byrne, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Gabriel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296616, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Ian Smith from London, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gabriel Byrne at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Gabriel Byrne.
Quick answers about Gabriel Byrne’s chart
- How old is Gabriel Byrne?
- Gabriel Byrne is 76 years old, born May 12, 1950 in Dublin, Ireland.
- What zodiac sign is Gabriel Byrne?
- Gabriel Byrne is a Taurus: born May 12, 1950, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
- What is Gabriel Byrne's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1950 birth.
- What time was Gabriel Byrne born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Gabriel Byrne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 12, 1950 birth date.
- What is Gabriel Byrne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 12, 1950 birth date.
- Where is Gabriel Byrne's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gabriel Byrne's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
