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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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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 1880
1999
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gillian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gillian sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Gillian Anderson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
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
Gillian’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.8° to 6.1° orb
Gillian’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.6° orb
Gillian’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Aries 2°52′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Gillian may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresScorpio 3°34′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Gillian is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosScorpio 13°45′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Gillian is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°03′ (moves 0.04° 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 Gillian feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Gillian that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Chiron trine Mars 0.3°
- Ceres square Mars 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.6°
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°).
Gillian’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Gillian is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Gillian’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gillian Anderson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Gillian
Eric Bana was born on August 9, 1968 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Gillian’s cards
Every card is computed from August 9, 1968, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Gillian Anderson, 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
Gillian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q485298, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
- 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 time was Gillian Anderson 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 Gillian Anderson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 9, 1968 birth date.
- What is Gillian Anderson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 9, 1968 birth date.
- 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.
