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Hilary Duff

Hilary Duff (born September 28, 1987, Houston, United States), aged 39, is an American actress and singer. Duff is best known for How I Met Your Father, War, Inc. and Younger. Duff's honours include Time 100.

Hilary Duff’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Hilary Duff’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#5301

US rank in 2025

~26,368

Americans share it since 1882

1990

its peak year

The SSA recorded 873 American girls and 8 boys named Hilary in 1987: 281st among girls and 5,146th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Hilary’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7).

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

Hilary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Blush · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1987, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Hilary apart

The record Hilary Duff is measured by: A Cinderella Story, Lizzie McGuire and War, Inc..

Hilary Duff was taught at Young Actors Space.

The family line: born to Susan Colleen Cobb and Robert Erhard Duff and married Matthew Koma and Mike Comrie.

Wikipedia files Hilary Duff under American jewelry designers and Actresses from San Antonio.

Terence Crawford shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
A Cinderella Story, Lizzie McGuire and War, Inc.
Educated at
Young Actors Space
Instruments
voice
Awards
Time 100 (2026)
Working from
1993
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
91

What the chart says

Hilary, according to the stars

Core essence

Hilary makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Hilary 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Hilary is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Hilary needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Hilary wants to be loved

Hilary wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Hilary gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Hilary creates

How Hilary makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Hilary creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Hilary is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Hilary is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Hilary channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Hilary's birth date. Working below.

Where Hilary sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Hilary

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
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You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hilary

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hilary

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Hilary Duff

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Houston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Hilary’s birth-night reference starAlbireowarm orange · CygnusAlbireo, in Cygnus. A warm orange star, 81.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Albireo →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 13.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Houston that night

Computed for 29.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Albireo stood nearest the zenith over Houston at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.

Houston sits at 29.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −60.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from Houston on any night.

The Moon, 35% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Houston, United States
Lives in
Beverly Hills · Toluca Lake

Wikidata records Beverly Hills and Toluca Lake as Hilary Duff'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 Hilary Duff: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Hilary's chart is

Chart pattern score

37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · 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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Hilary Duff at a glance

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

Hilary Duff's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 28, 1987, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Fire Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Hilary Duff was born on September 28, 1987, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Hilary Duff's birth date, September 28, 1987, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Hilary’s chart

Hilary’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.2° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.5° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.3° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.7° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.2° orbSun in Libra · 5°02′☉5°Moon in Sagittarius · 12°36′☽12°Mercury in Libra · 29°59′☿29°Venus in Libra · 14°52′♀14°Mars in Virgo · 23°31′♂23°Jupiter in Aries · 27°14′ · retrograde♃℞27°Saturn in Sagittarius · 15°49′♄15°Uranus in Sagittarius · 23°02′♅23°Neptune in Capricorn · 5°16′♆5°Pluto in Scorpio · 8°33′♇8°

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

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Hilary’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssquareUranus0.2° to 0.8° orb

    Hilary’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn0.4° to 1.5° orb

    Hilary’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter2.1° to 3.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.2° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 3.6° to 17.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 4.4° to 17.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 28°47′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 28°03′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 25°39′ (moves 0.77° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 21°38′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 4°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 0.8°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.2°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.4°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.5°
  • Eros opposition Jupiter 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 2.6°

Hilary’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Hilary’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.0°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.8°
  • Sun quintile Saturn 1.2°

Hilary’s family here

2 relatives of Hilary Duff also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

Born the same day as Hilary

Terence Crawford was born on September 28, 1987 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 Houston, at 29.8°N, nothing below −60.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Hilary’s cards

Computed from September 28, 1987. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hilary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q122020 (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 Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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Quick answers about Hilary Duff’s chart

How old is Hilary Duff?
Hilary Duff is 39 years old, born September 28, 1987 in Houston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Hilary Duff?
Hilary Duff is a Libra: born September 28, 1987, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Hilary Duff's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 28, 1987 birth.
What is Hilary Duff's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Hilary Duff's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Hilary Duff's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Hilary Duff's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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