Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger (born Heathcliff Andrew Ledger; April 4, 1979, Perth, Australia; died 2008), was an Australian actor. Notable films include The Dark Knight, Brokeback Mountain and 10 Things I Hate About You. Ledger's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Heath Ledger’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Heath
Heath Ledger’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Heath in the U.S.?
#932
US rank in 2025
~29,704
Americans share it since 1913
1974
its peak year
Heath ranked 228th among boys and 7,548th among girls in 1979, the year of this birth, with 998 American boys and 8 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Heath’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Heathcliff Andrew Ledger, not the name they published under.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on F (6). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Heath’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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 1979, 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 Heath apart
Heath Ledger took the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009, at 30.
The classrooms behind this chart: Heathcote High School and Guildford Grammar School.
The working life starts in 1992, at 13.
Cause of death is recorded as poisoning by drugs; the grave is at Karrakatta.
The family line: born to Sally Ramshaw and Kim Ledger and raised one child.
The same date carries Natasha Lyonne. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Heathcote High School and Guildford Grammar School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (2009), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (2009) and MTV Movie Award for Best Villain (2009)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1992
- Cause of death
- poisoning by drugs
- Buried at
- Karrakatta
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 110
What the chart says
Heath, according to the stars
Core essence
Heath leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Heath is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Heath is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Heath needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Heath wants to be loved
Heath wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Heath, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Heath creates
How Heath makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Heath 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: Heath is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Heath is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Heath slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Heath's birth date. Working below.
Where Heath sits
Six lines
Heath’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Heath Ledger
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Perth 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 Perth that night
Computed for 31.96°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Perth was Suhail, in Vela, 77.6° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Perth sits at 32.0°S, high enough that Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The Moon, 51% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 36° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Heathcliff Andrew Ledger
- Known as
- Heath Ledger
- Born in
- Perth, Australia
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Heath Ledger: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Heath's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Five planets retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree
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
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Heath Ledger's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 4, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatArtist first, everything second.
Heath Ledger was born on April 4, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Heath Ledger's birth date, April 4, 1979, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Heath’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Heath Ledger's date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Heath Ledger combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Heath’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Cancer 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
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.3° to 1.6° orb
Heath’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.0° to 1.8° orb
Heath’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.1° to 2.1° orb
Heath’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune5.6° to 5.9° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus5.7° to 5.9° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.9° to 13.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Heath’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 7°45′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 16°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 6°47′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 7°03′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.1°
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.4°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.2°
Heath’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Heath’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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.6°
Born the same day as Heath
Natasha Lyonne was born on April 4, 1979 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Perth, at 32.0°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Heath
Other actors
- Sharman Joshi1979
- Lake Bell1979
- Lance Bass1979
- Adam Levine1979
- Vincent Kartheiser1979
- Coco Austin1979
Born in Australia
- Emilie de RavinAustralian actress (born 1981)
- Ryan KwantenAustralian actor and comedian (born 1976)
- Corey BohanAustralian BMX rider
- Mark WebberAustralian professional racing driver
- Yvonne StrahovskiAustralian actress
- Alex O'LoughlinAustralian film and television actor
More charts like Heath’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Von MillerAmerican football player (born 1989)
- Malik HookerAmerican football player
- Nick Westbrook-IkhineAmerican football wide receiver
Born in Goat years
- Martinus J. G. VeltmanDutch theoretical physicist
- Cordell HullAmerican politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
- Johann DeisenhoferGerman scientist
Also born on April 4
- Maya Angelou1928
- Robert Downey Jr.1965
- Hugh Masekela1939
- Natasha Lyonne1979
- Jill Scott1972
- Eric André1983
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Jarquez HunterAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Jahdae BarronAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Amari GainerAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Aries Goat charts
- Marten de RoonDutch association football player (born 1991)
- Igor MatanovićCroatian association football player
- Kyle Van NoyAmerican football player (born 1991)
- Terrion ArnoldAmerican football player (born 2003)
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Paul SabatierFrench chemist
- Richard E. TaylorCanadian physicist
- John Hasbrouck Van VleckAmerican physicist
- Willard BoyleCanadian physicist and inventor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Zach HarrisonAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Tuli TuipulotuAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Calais CampbellAmerican football player (born 1986)
From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Heath’s cards
Computed from April 4, 1979. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Heath’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q40572 (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 Howie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Heath Ledger 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 Heath Ledger.
Quick answers about Heath Ledger’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Heath Ledger?
- Heath Ledger was an Aries: born April 4, 1979, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Heath Ledger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1979 birth.
- What was Heath Ledger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Heath Ledger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Heath Ledger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Heath Ledger's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
