Galen Weston
Galen Weston (born October 29, 1940, Marlow, United Kingdom), aged 86, is a Canadian billionaire.
Galen Weston’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Galen
Galen Weston’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Galen in the U.S.?
#4442
US rank in 2025
~17,060
Americans share it since 1889
1949
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1940, Galen came 444th, carried by 170 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Galen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on G (7) and closes on N (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
Galen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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 Galen apart
Galen Weston took the Officer of the Order of Canada in 1990, at 50.
Training came by way of University of Western Ontario.
Galen Weston was born to Reta Lila Weston (Howard) and W. Garfield Weston, married Hilary Weston and raised 2 children.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938) and Winona Ryder (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Western Ontario
- Awards
- Officer of the Order of Canada (1990), Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (2018) and Order of Ontario (2004)
- Citizenship
- Canada and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Galen, according to the stars
Core essence
Galen does not do surface. The core of Galen 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 Galen is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Galen cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Galen needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Galen wants to be loved
Galen wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Galen and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Galen creates
How Galen 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. Galen 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: Galen is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Galen 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Galen fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Galen's birth date. Working below.
Where Galen sits
Six lines
Galen’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 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 Galen Weston
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Marlow 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 Marlow that night
Computed for 51.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Marlow at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 14.4° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
At 51.6°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 −38.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 31° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Marlow, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Toronto, Ontario in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Galen Weston: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Galen's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Pluto · A leaning bowl
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
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Galen Weston's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Galen Weston was born on October 29, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Galen Weston's birth date, October 29, 1940, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Galen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Galen Weston's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Galen Weston combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Galen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Libra 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
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
Galen’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 7.4° orb
Galen’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.5° orb
Galen’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineUranus0.6° to 1.9° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.8° to 1.1° orb
stableSunsquarePluto1.0° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.6° to 3.0° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter4.8° to 5.9° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.3° to 6.4° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto6.5° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Galen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 1°20′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 10°06′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 13°51′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 22°37′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 15°35′ (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 Mars 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.6°
- Eros square Mars 1.6°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.6°
Galen’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Galen’s chart
T-square onto Pluto · Sun, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.9°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on October 29
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf1938
- Winona Ryder1971
- Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah1952
- Ma Huateng1971
- Tracee Ellis Ross1972
- Joe Amabile1986
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- James Clerk MaxwellScottish physicist
- Umberto EcoItalian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
- Diana, Princess of WalesMember of the British royal family and Princess of Wales
Other Scorpio Dragon charts
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- Iris LawBritish model
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- Georges MikautadzeGeorgian association football player
Other Evergreen Scholars
- VJ PayneAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Demarcus LawrenceAmerican football player (born 1992)
- Abraham LucasAmerican football player
- Andre Jones Jr.American football player (born 1998)
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- Bobby BerkAmerican interior designer and reality television personality
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Galen’s cards
Computed from October 29, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
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
Galen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1491812 (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 Galen Weston.
Quick answers about Galen Weston’s chart
- How old is Galen Weston?
- Galen Weston is 86 years old, born October 29, 1940 in Marlow, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Galen Weston?
- Galen Weston is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1940, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Galen Weston's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1940 birth.
- What is Galen Weston's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Galen Weston's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Galen Weston's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Galen Weston's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
