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Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom (born October 10, 1967, San Francisco, United States, 05:13), aged 59 is a 40th governor of California since 2019.

Gavin Newsom (born 1967) served as the 40th governor of California since 2019. Newsom has held office as Lieutenant Governor of California and mayor of San Francisco.

Gavin Newsom’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Gavin Newsom’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Gavin in the U.S.?

#303

US rank in 2025

~189,665

Americans share it since 1913

2007

its peak year

In 1967, 173 American boys were registered Gavin — 574th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Gavin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

Gavin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Blush · Flame orange

The record

What sets Gavin apart

Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government. That is the work the name is attached to.

Gavin Newsom was taught at Redwood High School and Santa Clara University.

On the family side, Gavin Newsom was born to Tessa Newsom and William Newsom, married Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Kimberly Guilfoyle and raised 3 children.

Marina Diamandis (1985) and Brett Favre (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
Educated at
Redwood High School and Santa Clara University
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Gavin, according to the stars

Core essence

Gavin makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Gavin is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Gavin 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 Gavin needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Gavin wants to be loved

Gavin 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 Gavin and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Gavin creates

How Gavin 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. Gavin 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: Gavin is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Gavin is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Gavin 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 Gavin's birth date. Working below.

Where Gavin sits

Six lines

Gavin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Gavin

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gavin

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Gavin

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gavin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Gavin

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gavin

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Gavin’s birth-sky starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 81.8° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 44.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

Read from the sky above San Francisco at 05:13, Gavin Newsom’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Francisco that night

Computed for 37.77°N, at the documented birth time.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over San Francisco at the birth hour, 81.8° above the horizon in Auriga.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

San Francisco sits at 37.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Francisco at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon down and 50% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
San Francisco, United States
Lives in
Kentfield · Fair Oaks

Wikidata records Kentfield and Fair Oaks as Gavin Newsom's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Gavin's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 未.

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 2/4

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

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.

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Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Gavin Newsom's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time.

What Libra means →

Fire Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Gavin Newsom was born on October 10, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Gavin Newsom's birth date, October 10, 1967, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Gavin’s chart

Gavin’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Moon · Square, 0° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.4° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.8° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 4.9° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.9° orbSun in Libra · 16°30′ · house 2☉16°Moon in Capricorn · 16°31′ · house 5☽16°Mercury in Scorpio · 11°40′ · house 3☿11°Venus in Virgo · 4°29′ · house 1♀4°Mars in Sagittarius · 20°53′ · house 4♂20°Jupiter in Leo · 28°28′ · house 12♃28°Saturn in Aries · 8°25′ · house 8 · retrograde♄℞8°Uranus in Virgo · 26°11′ · house 1♅26°Neptune in Scorpio · 22°44′ · house 3♆22°Pluto in Virgo · 21°23′ · house 1♇21°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 21°14′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 21°14′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCGem 20°07′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSgr 20°07′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantVirgo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsquareMoonseparating · 0.0° orb

    Gavin’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • MarssquarePlutoapplying · 0.5° orb

    Gavin’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.4° orb

    Gavin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • UranussextileNeptuneseparating · 3.5° orb

  • SunsextileMarsapplying · 4.4° orb

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.8° orb

  • MoonsextileMercuryseparating · 4.9° orb

  • MoontrinePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb

  • MarssquareUranusapplying · 5.3° orb

  • JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 5.7° orb

  • VenusconjunctionJupiterseparating · 6.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Gavin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 26°40′ · House 7

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 21°35′ · House 1

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCancer 8°52′ · House 11

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 9°52′ · House 5

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 2°01′ · House 9

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Ascendant 0.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
  • Eros square Saturn 0.5°
  • Ceres square Mars 0.7°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.5°
  • Eros trine Mercury 2.8°

Gavin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Gavin’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.

  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°

Gavin’s houses

Gavin’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 3Venus, Uranus, Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Virgo, house 1Sunmoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 1Mercury, Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Leo, house 12Marshome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Aries, house 8Mooncreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 1emptywork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 3emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 4Saturnshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Virgo, house 1emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 3emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Capricorn, house 5emptyfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Libra, house 2Jupiterthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Gavin’s family here

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Gavin’s cards

Computed from October 10, 1967. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gavin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q461391 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Charles Ommanney – Office of the Governor of California, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gavin Newsom.

Quick answers about Gavin Newsom’s chart

How old is Gavin Newsom?
Gavin Newsom is 59 years old, born October 10, 1967 in San Francisco, United States.
What zodiac sign is Gavin Newsom?
Gavin Newsom is a Libra: born October 10, 1967, which puts the Sun in Libra at the documented birth time.
What is Gavin Newsom's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1967 birth.
What time was Gavin Newsom born?
05:13 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Gavin Newsom's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 05:13 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Gavin Newsom?
Gavin Newsom is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Gavin Newsom's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Gavin Newsom's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 26°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Gavin Newsom's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 2°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Gavin Newsom's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mercury, Neptune; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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