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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Gabriel
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.
How common is the name Gabriel in the U.S.?
#37
US rank in 2025
~402,627
Americans share it since 1880
2008
its peak year
In 1950, 258 American boys and 5 girls were registered Gabriel — 418th among boys and 5,571st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gabriel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gabriel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Gabriel apart
Rishi Sunak (1980) and Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Gabriel sits
Six lines
Gabriel’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 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.
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 Gabriel Byrne
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dublin 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 Dublin that night
Computed for 53.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Dublin at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 3.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 53.3°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 −36.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 15% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat -1° below the horizon.
How unusual Gabriel's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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
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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 4.3° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.9° to 5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 20°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 17°21′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 20°04′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 21°16′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°29′ (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 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°
Gabriel’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Gabriel’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 biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.8°
More people like Gabriel
Other screenwriters
- James Lapine1949
- Robin Williams1951
- Lawrence Kasdan1949
- Stellan Skarsgård1951
- Tom Berenger1949
- Bob Gale1951
Born in Ireland
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- Colin FarrellIrish actor
- Cillian MurphyIrish actor
- Glen HansardIrish musician and songwriter
- Aidan O'BrienIrish Thoroughbred trainer
- Sinéad O'ConnorIrish singer-songwriter and activist
More charts like Gabriel’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- William GiauqueAmerican chemist
- Karl Barry SharplessAmerican chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
- Carl SpittelerSwiss writer
Born in Tiger years
- Jules KoundéFrench footballer (born 1998)
- Miro MuheimSwiss association football player
- Leonardo BalerdiArgentine footballer (born 1999)
Also born on May 12
- Rishi Sunak1980
- Dorothy Hodgkin1910
- George Carlin1937
- Rami Malek1981
- Marcelo Vieira1988
- Jonah Lomu1975
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Nat WolffAmerican actor, musician, and singer-songwriter
- Sam Taylor-JohnsonBritish film director
- Ronnie RadkeAmerican musician
Other Taurus Tiger charts
- Don RicklesAmerican stand-up comedian
- Lionel BarrymoreAmerican actor, director and screenwriter
- Cloris LeachmanAmerican actress and comedian
- Ward CraneAmerican actor
Other Radiant Architects
- Shawn RaboutouAmerican rock climber
- Jean RenoSpanish-French actor
- Frank FinlayBritish actor
- Chris PennAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Jessica TandyBritish actress
- Don HenleyAmerican rock musician
- Johnny CarsonAmerican talk show host and comedian
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Gabriel’s cards
Computed from May 12, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gabriel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296616 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Gabriel Byrne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gabriel Byrne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
