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Glen Hansard

Glen Hansard (born April 21, 1970, Dublin, Ireland; died 2026), was an Irish musician and songwriter. Best-known releases include The Swell Season. Hansard's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Glen Hansard’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Glen Hansard’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#2026

US rank in 2025

~127,054

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

Glen ranked 155th among boys and 4,114th among girls in 1970, the year of this birth, with 1,997 American boys and 14 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Glen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

7

Soul Urge · understanding

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on G (7) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Glen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Blush · 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 1970, 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 Glen apart

The classrooms behind this chart: New York Film Academy.

Cause of death is recorded as traffic collision.

On the family side, Glen Hansard was married Maire Saaritsa.

The same date carries Rob Riggle. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
New York Film Academy
Instruments
guitar, voice and ukulele
Cause of death
traffic collision
Citizenship
Ireland
Languages
English and Dutch
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Glen, according to the stars

Core essence

Glen is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Glen is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Glen wants to be loved

Glen wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Glen is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Glen creates

How Glen makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Glen 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: Glen is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Glen is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Glen scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Glen's birth date. Working below.

Where Glen sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Glen

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Glen

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

PrivateExpressive
Glen

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Glen

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

PracticalVisionary
Glen

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Glen

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Glen Hansard

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dublin on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Glen’s birth-night reference starTalithawhite · Ursa MajorTalitha, in Ursa Major. A white star, 82.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Talitha →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 27.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Dublin that night

Computed for 53.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Dublin was Talitha, in Ursa Major, 82.3° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 53.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −36.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Dublin on any night.

Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 100% lit at full moon.

How unusual Glen's chart is

Chart pattern score

61 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Glen Hansard at a glance

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Glen Hansard's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 21, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Glen Hansard was born on April 21, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Glen Hansard's birth date, April 21, 1970, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Glen’s chart

Glen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.2° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.6° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 2.7° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.9° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.9° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 5° orbSun in Taurus · 0°55′☉0°Moon in Libra · 28°14′☽28°Mercury in Taurus · 20°10′☿20°Venus in Taurus · 22°11′♀22°Mars in Gemini · 1°50′♂1°Jupiter in Scorpio · 1°07′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Taurus · 10°39′♄10°Uranus in Libra · 5°44′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 0°17′ · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Virgo · 25°11′ · retrograde♇℞25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Glen’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune1.2° to 1.9° orb

    Glen’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.3° orb

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

  • stableVenustrinePluto2.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.5° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.7° to 5.4° orb

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 6.0° to 18.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarstrinePlutoorb from 6.3° to 7.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenusoppositionNeptuneorb from 7.5° to 8.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 7°45′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 3°39′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 19°49′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 15°28′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 14°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Mercury 0.4°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 2.1°
  • Eros trine Venus 2.4°

Glen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto3 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Glen’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, SaturnThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 0.6°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.7°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.1°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°

Born the same day as Glen

Rob Riggle was born on April 21, 1970 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 53.3°N, Dublin keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Glen’s cards

Computed from April 21, 1970. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Glen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q220010 (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 Sven-Sebastian Sajak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Glen Hansard at Wikipedia, glenhansard.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Glen Hansard.

Quick answers about Glen Hansard’s chart

What zodiac sign was Glen Hansard?
Glen Hansard was a Taurus: born April 21, 1970, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Glen Hansard's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 21, 1970 birth.
What was Glen Hansard's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Glen Hansard's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Glen Hansard's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Glen Hansard's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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