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Gemma Arterton

Gemma Arterton (born February 2, 1986, Gravesend, United Kingdom), aged 40, is a British actress. Notable films include Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Gemma Arterton’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Gemma Arterton’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Scholar

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#170

US rank in 2025

~26,042

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Gemma’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Gemma, according to the stars

Core essence

Gemma is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Gemma is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Gemma feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Gemma needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Gemma wants to be loved

Gemma wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Gemma be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Gemma creates

How Gemma 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. Gemma 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: Gemma is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Gemma is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Gemma leads without needing to do it alone.

Computed from Gemma's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Gemma sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Gemma

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gemma

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Gemma

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gemma

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

PracticalVisionary
Gemma

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gemma

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Gemma Arterton at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Gemma Arterton's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 2, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Wood Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Gemma Arterton was born on February 2, 1986, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Gemma Arterton's birth date, February 2, 1986, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Gemma’s chart

Gemma’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Gemma Arterton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Venus · Square, 0.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 2.9° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.3° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 4° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 13°21′☉13°Moon in Scorpio · 17°20′☽17°Mercury in Aquarius · 14°24′☿14°Venus in Aquarius · 16°40′♀16°Mars in Sagittarius · 0°08′♂0°Jupiter in Aquarius · 25°39′♃25°Saturn in Sagittarius · 8°03′♄8°Uranus in Sagittarius · 21°10′♅21°Neptune in Capricorn · 4°44′♆4°Pluto in Scorpio · 7°21′♇7°

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.

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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.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.7° to 1.4° orb

    Gemma’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.0° to 2.5° orb

    Gemma’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.2° to 3.4° orb

    Gemma’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter4.3° to 4.7° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.4° to 4.6° orb

    Gemma’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsquarePluto5.5° to 6.5° orb

    Gemma’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 1.4° to 15.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 3.0° to 17.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Gemma’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 ℞Gemini 9°20′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Gemma turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 13°55′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Gemma caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 28°34′ (moves 0.63° over the day)

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Gemma attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 24°57′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Gemma feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 27°19′ (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. Gemma 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.

  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.8°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 2.9°

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°).

Gemma’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. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Gemma is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Gemma’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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 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.

  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.2°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gemma Arterton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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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

Gemma’s cards

Every card is computed from February 2, 1986, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Scholar

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Gemma Arterton, 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

Gemma’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q255323, 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 Donna Sydee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gemma Arterton at Wikipedia, gemma-arterton.net, IMDb, X 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 Gemma Arterton.

Quick answers about Gemma Arterton’s chart

How old is Gemma Arterton?
Gemma Arterton is 40 years old, born February 2, 1986 in Gravesend, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Gemma Arterton?
Gemma Arterton is an Aquarius: born February 2, 1986, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Ox.
What is Gemma Arterton's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 2, 1986 birth.
What time was Gemma Arterton 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 Gemma Arterton's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 2, 1986 birth date.
What is Gemma Arterton's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 2, 1986 birth date.
Where is Gemma Arterton's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Gemma Arterton's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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