Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson (born August 9, 1968, Chicago, United States), aged 58, is an American actress. Notable films include The X-Files, The Crown and Sex Education. Anderson's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Gillian Anderson’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Gillian
Gillian Anderson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Gillian in the U.S.?
#3307
US rank in 2025
~16,127
Americans share it since 1922
1999
its peak year
The SSA recorded 116 American girls named Gillian in 1968: 959th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gillian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
Gillian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
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 1968, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Gillian apart
The Theatre World Award came in 1991, when Gillian Anderson was 23.
Gillian Anderson was taught at City High-Middle School and DePaul University.
Gillian Anderson was 18 when the work began in 1986.
The family line: born to Rosemary Lane Anderson, married Clyde Klotz and Julian Ozanne and raised one child.
Eric Bana 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
- City High-Middle School, DePaul University and The Theatre School at DePaul University
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Theatre World Award (1991), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1997) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Television Series Drama (1996)
- Nominated for
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actress and British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1986
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 102
What the chart says
Gillian, according to the stars
Core essence
Gillian is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Gillian is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Gillian wants to be loved
Gillian 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 Gillian and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gillian creates
How Gillian makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Gillian creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Gillian is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gillian 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Gillian fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Gillian's birth date. Working below.
Where Gillian sits
Six lines
Gillian’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 Gillian Anderson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.5° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, had already set; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
- Lives in
- London
Wikidata records London as Gillian Anderson'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 Gillian Anderson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Gillian's chart is
Chart pattern score
83 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Yod onto Saturn · 3-planet stellium in Leo
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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Gillian Anderson's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 9, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Gillian Anderson was born on August 9, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Gillian Anderson's birth date, August 9, 1968, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Gillian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gillian Anderson's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gillian Anderson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Gillian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 2.9° orb
Gillian’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
Gillian’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.2° to 5.2° orb
Gillian’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableUranussextileNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn4.8° to 6.1° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.3° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.6° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 2.4° to 16.0° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrineSaturnorb from 5.0° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareNeptuneorb from 6.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Gillian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°52′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 3°34′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 13°45′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.3°
- Ceres square Mars 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.6°
Gillian’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Gillian’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.- Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
Yod onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.8°
Born the same day as Gillian
Eric Bana was born on August 9, 1968 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Chicago sits at 41.9°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Gillian
Other actors
- Billy Crudup1968
- Sophie Okonedo1968
- Kylie Minogue1968
- Debra Messing1968
- Timothy Olyphant1968
- Camille Grammer1968
Born in United States
- Lee Jae-yongSouth Korean business executive
- Dan CaineU.S. Air Force general
- Andy CohenAmerican radio and television talk show host
- Debra MessingAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Timothy OlyphantAmerican actor
- Jackie WarnerAmerican television personality
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Born in Monkey years
- Brian CoxEnglish physicist and musician
- Karlie KlossAmerican fashion model
- 21 SavageBritish-born rapper
Also born on August 9
- Whitney Houston1963
- John Key1961
- Eric Bana1968
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- David BoreanazAmerican actor
- Sharna BurgessAustralian dancer
- Adrianne CurryAmerican fashion model, actress and television personality
Other Leo Monkey charts
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- Cole SprouseAmerican actor
- Dylan SprouseAmerican actor
- Dan CaineU.S. Air Force general
Other Gilded Architects
- Sophie MarceauFrench actress
- Folco LulliItalian actor
- Janet LeighAmerican actress
- James DonaldBritish actor
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Anna KournikovaRussian tennis player and model
- Randy JacksonAmerican bassist, singer, record producer, entrepreneur and television personality
- Brody JennerAmerican reality television personality and model
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Gillian’s cards
Computed from August 9, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gillian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q485298 (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 Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gillian Anderson at Wikipedia, gilliananderson.ws, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gillian Anderson.
Quick answers about Gillian Anderson’s chart
- How old is Gillian Anderson?
- Gillian Anderson is 58 years old, born August 9, 1968 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gillian Anderson?
- Gillian Anderson is a Leo: born August 9, 1968, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Gillian Anderson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1968 birth.
- What is Gillian Anderson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gillian Anderson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gillian Anderson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gillian Anderson's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
