Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay (born November 8, 1966, Johnstone, United Kingdom, 18:05), aged 60, is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. Ramsay's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Diamond Play Button.
Gordon Ramsay’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Gordon
Gordon Ramsay’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 Gordon in the U.S.?
#1052
US rank in 2025
~155,579
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,386 American boys and 7 girls named Gordon in 1966: 181st among boys and 5,450th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gordon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on G (7) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gordon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1966, 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 Gordon apart
The Officer of the Order of the British Empire came in 2006, when Gordon Ramsay was 40.
Study took Gordon Ramsay to Stratford-upon-Avon High School and North Oxfordshire Academy.
The family line: married Tana Ramsay and raised 5 children.
Wikipedia files Gordon Ramsay under British chefs, Chefs of Italian cuisine and English cuisine.
Richard Li 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
- Stratford-upon-Avon High School, North Oxfordshire Academy and Activate Learning
- Awards
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2006)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English and French
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
What the chart says
Gordon, according to the stars
Core essence
Gordon does not do surface. The core of Gordon is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Gordon is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Gordon is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Gordon needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Gordon wants to be loved
Gordon wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Gordon even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Gordon creates
How Gordon makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Gordon 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: Gordon is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gordon 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Gordon channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Gordon's birth date. Working below.
Where Gordon sits
Six lines
Gordon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Gordon Ramsay
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Johnstone on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Johnstone at 18:05, Gordon Ramsay’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Johnstone that night
Computed for 55.83°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Johnstone at the birth hour: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 7.1° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.
Johnstone sits at 55.8°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 20% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Johnstone, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Gordon Ramsay's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Johnstone, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 60th of 160 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Austin, United States, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Gordon'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 丑.
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · 3-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Air planets
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Gordon Ramsay's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseHappiest halfway there.
Gordon Ramsay was born on November 8, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Gordon Ramsay's birth date, November 8, 1966, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Gordon’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Gordon Ramsay's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house, Mercury in the 7th house, Mars in the 4th house, Saturn in the 10th house, Uranus in the 4th house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Gordon Ramsay's timed chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Moon, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Gordon Ramsay 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.
Gordon’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsextileMarsapplying · 0.0° orb
Gordon’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
SaturnoppositionUranusseparating · 0.0° orb
Gordon’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 0.1° orb
Gordon’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenussextileMarsapplying · 0.1° orb
MoonoppositionSaturnseparating · 0.2° orb
MoonconjunctionUranusseparating · 0.2° orb
MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 1.3° orb
SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 1.5° orb
UranussextileNeptuneseparating · 1.5° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.6° orb
MoonsextileNeptuneseparating · 1.7° orb
SaturnoppositionPlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.1° orb
MoonconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.3° orb
SunsextilePlutoapplying · 4.2° orb
MarsconjunctionPlutoapplying · 4.2° orb
VenussextilePlutoapplying · 4.3° orb
SunconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.8° orb
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.9° orb
MarsoppositionSaturnapplying · 7.3° orb
MarsconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.3° orb
MoonconjunctionMarsseparating · 7.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Gordon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°57′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 6°51′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°12′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 16°28′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 24°37′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Moon 1.2°
- Chiron conjunction Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Moon 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron square Ascendant 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.9°
Gordon’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 7 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Moon, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; angular in the fourth house; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Gordon’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Moon, Mars, 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 Scorpio · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.9°
Gordon’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 7 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 4 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 6 | Jupiter | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 7 | Moon, Mars, Uranus, Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 6 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 4 | Sun, Venus, Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 3 | Mercury | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 10 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 6 | Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 4 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 6 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Gordon
Richard Li was born on November 8, 1966 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 55.8°N, Johnstone keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Gilded Architects
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Famous people with Life Path 5
- Ava GardnerAmerican actress
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Gordon’s cards
Computed from November 8, 1966. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gordon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15280 (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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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 Gordon Ramsay.
Quick answers about Gordon Ramsay’s chart
- How old is Gordon Ramsay?
- Gordon Ramsay is 60 years old, born November 8, 1966 in Johnstone, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Gordon Ramsay?
- Gordon Ramsay is a Scorpio: born November 8, 1966, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
- What is Gordon Ramsay's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 8, 1966 birth.
- What time was Gordon Ramsay born?
- 18:05 local time in Johnstone, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Gordon Ramsay's rising sign?
- Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 18:05 birth time in Johnstone, United Kingdom (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Gordon Ramsay's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gordon Ramsay's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gordon Ramsay's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 24°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gordon Ramsay's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 7 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
