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Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman (born January 8, 1941, Stoneygate, United Kingdom; died 1989), was an English actor, comedian and writer. Chapman's honours include European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Graham Chapman’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Graham Chapman’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

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

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

#120

US rank in 2025

~61,671

Americans share it since 1881

2025

its peak year

The SSA recorded 101 American boys named Graham in 1941: 591st for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Graham’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on G (7) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Graham’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

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 1940, 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 Graham apart

The European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award came in 2001, when Graham Chapman was 60.

Graham Chapman was taught at King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Graham Chapman was 19 when the work began in 1960.

The record gives oropharynx cancer as the cause, and Wales as the resting place.

Wikipedia files Graham Chapman under English LGBTQ comedians, Comedians from Leicester and British gay comedians.

Elvis Presley (1935) and Stephen Hawking (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Emmanuel College
Awards
European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
Working from
1960
Cause of death
oropharynx cancer
Buried at
Wales
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
British English
Wikipedia editions
52

What the chart says

Graham, according to the stars

Core essence

Graham is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Graham is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Graham is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Graham needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Graham wants to be loved

Graham wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Graham and watch them fall for you again.

How Graham creates

How Graham makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Graham creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Graham is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Graham 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Graham has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Graham's birth date. Working below.

Where Graham sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Graham

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Graham

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Graham

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Graham

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

PracticalVisionary
Graham

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Graham

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 Graham Chapman

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

Graham’s birth-night reference starMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 86.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirfak →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 68.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Stoneygate that night

Computed for 52.62°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirfak stood nearest the zenith over Stoneygate at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Perseus.

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

At 52.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 79% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Stoneygate, United Kingdom

The death is recorded at Maidstone in 1989.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Graham Chapman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Graham's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Only two elements

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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Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Graham Chapman's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 8, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Graham Chapman was born on January 8, 1941, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Graham Chapman's birth date, January 8, 1941, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Graham’s chart

Graham’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.1° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.3° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.8° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.3° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.2° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Capricorn · 17°48′☉17°Moon in Taurus · 19°08′☽19°Mercury in Capricorn · 15°59′☿15°Venus in Sagittarius · 23°13′♀23°Mars in Sagittarius · 2°27′♂2°Jupiter in Taurus · 5°48′♃5°Saturn in Taurus · 7°54′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Taurus · 22°21′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Virgo · 27°40′ · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 3°32′ · retrograde♇℞3°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 6.9° orb

    Graham’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.

  • stableMarstrinePluto0.7° to 1.4° orb

    Graham’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.5° to 2.1° orb

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.8° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus4.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 2.5° to 14.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth7 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air or Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 29°11′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 10°10′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 22°43′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 29°16′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 23°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.3°
  • Eros square Uranus 0.4°
  • Eros sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Chiron sextile Neptune 1.5°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.6°

Graham’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Graham’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.4°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.9°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.5°

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Graham’s cards

Computed from January 8, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Graham’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q24962 (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 Python (Monty) Pictures - Distributed in the USA by Cinema 5, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Graham Chapman at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Graham Chapman.

Quick answers about Graham Chapman’s chart

What zodiac sign was Graham Chapman?
Graham Chapman was a Capricorn: born January 8, 1941, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Graham Chapman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1941 birth.
What was Graham Chapman's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Graham Chapman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Graham Chapman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Graham Chapman's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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