Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal (born November 30, 1978, Guadalajara, Mexico), aged 47, is a Mexican actor and producer. Bernal's honours include Golden Globe Awards, Marcello Mastroianni Award and Trophée Chopard.
Gael García Bernal’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Gael
Gael García Bernal’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gael in the U.S.?
#86
US rank in 2025
~49,752
Americans share it since 1919
2024
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Gael falls under that line for 1978. Its peak came in 2024, and 49,752 Americans have carried it since 1919.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on G (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, 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 Gael apart
Gael García Bernal was taught at Edron Academy and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Gael García Bernal was 11 when the work began in 1989.
The family line: born to Patricia Bernal and José Ángel García.
On Wikipedia the categories read Mexican expatriates in Argentina, Best Actor Ariel Award winners and Male actors from Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Clay Aiken shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Edron Academy, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and European Graduate School
- Nominated for
- European Film Award, People's Choice Award for Best European Film
- Working from
- 1989
- Citizenship
- United States and Mexico
- Languages
- Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
What the chart says
Gael, according to the stars
Core essence
Gael is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Gael is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Gael is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Gael needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Gael wants to be loved
Gael 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 Gael even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Gael creates
How Gael makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Gael creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Gael is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Gael is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Gael has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Gael's birth date. Working below.
Where Gael sits
Six lines
Gael’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Gael García Bernal
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Guadalajara 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 Guadalajara that night
Computed for 20.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algenib stood nearest the zenith over Guadalajara at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.4° above the horizon in Pegasus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
Guadalajara sits at 20.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Guadalajara, Mexico
- Lives in
- Mexico City · Buenos Aires
Wikidata records Mexico City and Buenos Aires as Gael García Bernal'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 Gael García Bernal: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Gael's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · A bowl chart
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 →Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Gael García Bernal's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 30, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Gael García Bernal was born on November 30, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Gael García Bernal's birth date, November 30, 1978, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Gael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gael García Bernal's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gael García Bernal combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Gael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Sagittarius 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
stableSuntrineJupiter0.3° to 1.4° orb
Gael’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.6° to 2.3° orb
Gael’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.7° to 1.6° orb
Gael’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.4° to 2.3° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableMarssextilePluto2.2° to 2.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.6° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.7° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.7° to 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Gael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°60′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°01′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 18°58′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 18°54′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 5°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.8°
Gael’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Gael’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
Born the same day as Gael
Clay Aiken was born on November 30, 1978 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 90 catalog stars stood above Guadalajara, at 20.7°N that night, with Algenib nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Gael
Other screenwriters
- Kate Hudson1979
- Topher Grace1978
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- Danai Gurira1978
- Stormy Daniels1979
- James Corden1978
Born in Mexico
- Jonás CuarónMexican film director
- Ricardo Salinas PliegoMexican businessman
- Canelo ÁlvarezMexican boxer
- Germán Larrea Mota-VelascoMexican business magnate
- Diego LunaMexican actor
- Mauricio UmanskyMexican real estate broker (born 1970)
More charts like Gael’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Grant CalcaterraAmerican football player
- Andrew MukubaZimbabwean American football player (born 2002)
- Ivan Pace Jr.American football player (born 2000)
Born in Horse years
- Richard DonnerAmerican film director
- Samuel R. DelanyAmerican author and literary critic (born 1942)
- Bob WeinsteinAmerican film executive (born 1954)
Also born on November 30
- Winston Churchill1874
- Ben Stiller1965
- Kaley Cuoco1985
- Billy Idol1955
- Tayari Jones1970
- Ian Hecox1987
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Collin SextonAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Brook LopezAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
- Jabari Smith Jr.American basketball player (born 2003)
Other Sagittarius Horse charts
- Olumuyiwa FashanuAmerican football player
- Donovan JacksonAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Jalen MilroeAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Jayden HigginsAmerican football player
Other Radiant Healers
- Taurean PrinceAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Jalen SuggsAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Branden CarlsonAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- John TonjeAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Russell WilsonAmerican football player
- Lauren LondonAmerican actress, model, and television personality
- Germán GarmendiaChilean YouTuber, comedian, and writer
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Gael’s cards
Computed from November 30, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179576 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gael García Bernal at Wikipedia, X, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gael García Bernal.
Quick answers about Gael García Bernal’s chart
- How old is Gael García Bernal?
- Gael García Bernal is 47 years old, born November 30, 1978 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- What zodiac sign is Gael García Bernal?
- Gael García Bernal is a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1978, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Gael García Bernal's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1978 birth.
- What is Gael García Bernal's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gael García Bernal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gael García Bernal's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gael García Bernal's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
