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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Goat, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~29,704
Americans share it since 1880
1974
its peak year
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Heath’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Heath Ledger, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Heath’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.8° to 3.1° orb
Heath’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionPluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
Heath’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareNeptune5.6° to 5.9° orb
Heath’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurytrineUranus5.7° to 5.9° orb
Heath’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironTaurus 7°45′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Heath building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 16°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Heath is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 6°47′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Heath is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaPisces 7°03′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Heath needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Heath is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Heath’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Heath is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Heath’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Heath Ledger, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Heath
Natasha Lyonne was born on April 4, 1979 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Heath’s cards
Every card is computed from April 4, 1979, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Heath Ledger, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Heath’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q40572, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Goat.
- 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 time was Heath Ledger born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Heath Ledger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the April 4, 1979 birth date.
- What was Heath Ledger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 4, 1979 birth date.
- 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.
