Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro (born October 9, 1964, Guadalajara, Mexico), aged 62, is a Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964). Toro's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Picture and Golden Lion.
Guillermo del Toro’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Guillermo
Guillermo del Toro’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Guillermo in the U.S.?
#902
US rank in 2025
~32,148
Americans share it since 1885
1998
its peak year
In 1964, 192 American boys were registered Guillermo — 571st on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Guillermo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Guillermo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, 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 Guillermo apart
The Nebula Award came in 2007, when Guillermo del Toro was 43.
The schooling ran through National Autonomous University of Mexico and University of Guadalajara.
Guillermo del Toro was 21 when the work began in 1985.
On Wikipedia the categories read Cthulhu Mythos writers, Artists from Guadalajara, Jalisco and Best Director Ariel Award winners.
John Lennon (1940) and Boris Nemtsov (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- National Autonomous University of Mexico and University of Guadalajara
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Director (2018), Academy Award for Best Picture (2018) and Nebula Award (2007)
- Nominated for
- Palme d'Or and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- Working from
- 1985
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Guillermo, according to the stars
Core essence
Guillermo makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Guillermo is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Guillermo wants to be loved
Guillermo 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 Guillermo and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Guillermo creates
How Guillermo makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Guillermo 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: Guillermo 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Guillermo is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Guillermo 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 Guillermo's birth date. Working below.
Where Guillermo sits
Six lines
Guillermo’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Guillermo del Toro
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Guadalajara 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 Guadalajara that night
Computed for 20.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Guadalajara was Enif, in Pegasus, 77.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Guadalajara sits at 20.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon, 19% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Guadalajara, Mexico
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · Guadalajara
Wikidata records Los Angeles and Guadalajara as Guillermo del Toro'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 Guillermo del Toro: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Guillermo's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Guillermo del Toro at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Guillermo del Toro's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 9, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Guillermo del Toro was born on October 9, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Guillermo del Toro's birth date, October 9, 1964, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Guillermo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Guillermo del Toro's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Guillermo del Toro combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Guillermo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Guillermo’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Guillermo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.4° to 2.0° orb
Guillermo’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileMars1.5° to 1.9° orb
stableMercurysextileMars2.2° to 3.3° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.7° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn5.2° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 2.3° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Guillermo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 15°06′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 1°56′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 19°44′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 16°04′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius or Capricorn during this date
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.0°
- Hygiea square Sun 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres trine Venus 2.6°
Guillermo’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Guillermo’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°
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Also born on October 9
- John Lennon1940
- Boris Nemtsov1959
- Bella Hadid1996
- Patson Daka1998
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- Tyler James Williams1992
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Lewis SpratlanAmerican music academic
- Meg GreenfieldAmerican journalist
- Leonard BaconAmerican poet, translator, and literary critic
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- Peter C. DohertyAustralian immunologist
- John Boyd OrrScottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
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Other Gilded Diplomats
- Margaret CourtAustralian tennis player
- Demis HassabisBritish artificial intelligence researcher
- Chris HipkinsPrime Minister of New Zealand from January to November 2023
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Guillermo’s cards
Computed from October 9, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Guillermo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q219124 (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 Brooks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Guillermo del Toro at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Guillermo del Toro.
Quick answers about Guillermo del Toro’s chart
- How old is Guillermo del Toro?
- Guillermo del Toro is 62 years old, born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- What zodiac sign is Guillermo del Toro?
- Guillermo del Toro is a Libra: born October 9, 1964, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Guillermo del Toro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 9, 1964 birth.
- What is Guillermo del Toro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Guillermo del Toro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Guillermo del Toro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Guillermo del Toro's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
