Hampton Fancher
Hampton Fancher (born July 18, 1938, East Los Angeles, United States), aged 88, is an American actor and director. Fancher's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Hampton Fancher’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Hampton
Hampton Fancher’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Hampton in the U.S.?
#1444
US rank in 2025
~5,039
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
In 1938, 38 American boys were registered Hampton — 1,052nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hampton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on H (8) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hampton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, 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 Hampton apart
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation came in 1983, when Hampton Fancher was 45.
The family line: married Sue Lyon.
On Wikipedia the categories read American film directors of Mexican descent, Writers of books about writing fiction and Screenwriting instructors.
Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1983)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 21
What the chart says
Hampton, according to the stars
Core essence
Hampton feels the room before entering it. The core of Hampton is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Hampton, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Hampton wants to be loved
Hampton 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 Hampton and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Hampton creates
How Hampton makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Hampton 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: Hampton is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Hampton is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Hampton leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Hampton does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Hampton's birth date. Working below.
Where Hampton sits
Six lines
Hampton’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Hampton Fancher
Three stars chosen from the real sky above East Los Angeles 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 East Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Kornephoros stood nearest the zenith over East Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.4° above the horizon in Hercules.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
East Los Angeles sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from East Los Angeles at all: they sit past the −56.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 64% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.
How unusual Hampton's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Air planets · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Hampton Fancher's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Hampton Fancher was born on July 18, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Hampton Fancher's birth date, July 18, 1938, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Hampton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hampton Fancher's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hampton Fancher combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Hampton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.7° to 2.1° orb
Hampton’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.3° to 2.8° orb
Hampton’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.7° to 2.0° orb
Hampton’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.6° to 4.8° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 1.9° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 3.9° to 15.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 6.3° to 19.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Hampton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°52′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 16°34′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 19°08′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 2°45′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.4°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.7°
- Eros opposition Saturn 1.2°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.4°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.8°
Hampton’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Hampton’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.8°
More people like Hampton
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Born in United States
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- Jon VoightAmerican actor (born 1938)
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- John HarbisonAmerican composer
- John CoriglianoAmerican composer (born 1938)
- Ted TurnerAmerican media mogul
More charts like Hampton’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Kevin De BruyneBelgian association football player
- Tobey MaguireAmerican actor and film producer
- Gurbanguly BerdimuhamedowTurkmen politician and president of Turkmenistan
Born in Tiger years
- Michael WhelanAmerican illustrator
- David BrinAmerican scientist and science fiction author (born 1950)
- Larry NivenAmerican writer (born 1938)
Also born on July 18
- Nelson Mandela1918
- Priyanka Chopra1982
- Kristen Bell1980
- Richard Branson1950
- Elsa Pataky1976
- Noah Lyles1997
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- David HalberstamAmerican writer, journalist, historian
- Oliver La FargeAmerican novelist, anthropologist
- David M. KennedyAmerican historian
Other Cancer Tiger charts
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- ComethazineAmerican rapper
- Felipe de Marichalar y BorbónSpanish noble (born 1998); son of Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, and Don Jaime de Marichalar
Other Gilded Strategists
- Camryn ManheimAmerican actress
- Mary SteenburgenAmerican actress, singer and songwriter
- Raquel WelchAmerican actress
- Peter FirthEnglish actor (born 1953)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Ferdinand BuissonFrench academic and politician
- John SulstonBritish biologist and Nobel laureate
- Eugenio MontaleItalian poet
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Hampton’s cards
Computed from July 18, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hampton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1372703 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hampton Fancher at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hampton Fancher.
Quick answers about Hampton Fancher’s chart
- How old is Hampton Fancher?
- Hampton Fancher is 88 years old, born July 18, 1938 in East Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Hampton Fancher?
- Hampton Fancher is a Cancer: born July 18, 1938, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Hampton Fancher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1938 birth.
- What is Hampton Fancher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Hampton Fancher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Hampton Fancher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Hampton Fancher's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
