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Henry Cavill

Henry Cavill (born May 5, 1983, Saint Helier, Jersey), aged 43, is an English actor. Notable films include Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Cavill's honours include MTV Movie Award for Best Hero and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble.

Henry Cavill’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Henry Cavill’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#5

US rank in 2025

~773,564

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

Henry ranked 136th among boys and 3,087th among girls in 1983, the year of this birth, with 1,952 American boys and 27 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Henry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

6

Soul Urge · being needed

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Henry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

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 1983, 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 Henry apart

Carlos Alcaraz (2003) and Aryna Sabalenka (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Sport
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English

What the chart says

Henry, according to the stars

Core essence

Henry is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Henry is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Henry needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Henry needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Henry wants to be loved

Henry wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Henry like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Henry creates

How Henry makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Henry creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Henry is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Henry is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Henry is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Henry's birth date. Working below.

Where Henry sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Henry

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Henry

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Henry

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Henry

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Henry

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Henry

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Henry Cavill

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saint Helier 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 Saint Helier that night

Computed for 49.19°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Merak stood nearest the zenith over Saint Helier at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 49.2°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Saint Helier at all: they sit past the −40.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon down and 44% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Saint Helier, Jersey
Lives in
London · Kensington

Wikidata records London and Kensington as Henry Cavill'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 Henry Cavill: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Henry's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

6 planets retrograde · 3-planet stellium in Taurus · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Henry Cavill's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 5, 1983, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Henry Cavill was born on May 5, 1983, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Henry Cavill's birth date, May 5, 1983, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Henry’s chart

Henry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.7° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.2° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.4° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 3.3° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.4° orbSun in Taurus · 14°23′☉14°Moon in Aquarius · 17°42′☽17°Mercury in Taurus · 24°57′ · retrograde☿℞24°Venus in Gemini · 25°29′♀25°Mars in Taurus · 21°50′♂21°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 8°45′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Scorpio · 0°06′ · retrograde♄℞0°Uranus in Sagittarius · 8°03′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Sagittarius · 28°55′ · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Libra · 27°41′ · retrograde♇℞27°

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.7° orb

    Henry’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Henry’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb

    Henry’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrinePluto1.6° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto2.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.6° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.3° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.2° to 13.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 26°42′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 22°03′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 12°09′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 23°26′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 5°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Mars 0.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.7°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.6°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.9°

Henry’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Henry’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Mars biquintile Neptune 1.1°

More people like Henry

More charts like Henry’s

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Other Tidal Architects

The Tidal Architect explained →

Famous people with Life Path 4

  • Octavio PazMexican writer, poet an diplomat
  • William GoldingBritish novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
  • Desmond TutuSouth African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?

Henry’s cards

Computed from May 5, 1983. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

4 · Architect

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295498 (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 from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Henry Cavill at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Henry Cavill.

Quick answers about Henry Cavill’s chart

How old is Henry Cavill?
Henry Cavill is 43 years old, born May 5, 1983 in Saint Helier, Jersey.
What zodiac sign is Henry Cavill?
Henry Cavill is a Taurus: born May 5, 1983, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Henry Cavill's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 5, 1983 birth.
How tall is Henry Cavill?
Henry Cavill is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Henry Cavill's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Henry Cavill's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Henry Cavill's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Henry Cavill's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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