Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant (born September 9, 1960, London, United Kingdom), aged 66, is a British actor. Notable films include Love Actually, Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Grant's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Awards and Empire Awards.
Hugh Grant’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Hugh
Hugh Grant’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Hugh in the U.S.?
#732
US rank in 2025
~84,179
Americans share it since 1880
1916
its peak year
In 1960, 903 American boys were registered Hugh — 266th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hugh’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 8: analysis against ambition.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hugh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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 1960, 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 Hugh apart
The Volpi Cup for Best Actor came in 1987, when Hugh Grant was 27.
The schooling ran through Wetherby School and Latymer Upper School.
Hugh Grant was 21 when the work began in 1981.
Hugh Grant was born to Fyvola Susan MacLean and James Murray Grant.
On Wikipedia the categories read People educated at Latymer Upper School, Alumni of New College, Oxford and Actors from the London Borough of Hounslow.
Luka Modrić (1985) and Adam Sandler (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Wetherby School, Latymer Upper School and New College
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1995), Golden Globe Awards (1995) and Volpi Cup for Best Actor (1987)
- Nominated for
- Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor and European Film Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1981
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English and French
- Wikipedia editions
- 85
What the chart says
Hugh, according to the stars
Core essence
Hugh notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Hugh is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Hugh is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Hugh needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Hugh wants to be loved
Hugh 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. Hugh gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Hugh creates
How Hugh makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Hugh 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: Hugh is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Hugh 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Hugh scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Hugh's birth date. Working below.
Where Hugh sits
Six lines
Hugh’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Hugh Grant
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Charing Cross Hospital 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 Charing Cross Hospital that night
Computed for 51.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Charing Cross Hospital was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 81.9° up.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Charing Cross Hospital sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Charing Cross Hospital at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon down and 79% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Hugh's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Mercury · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Hugh Grant's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 9, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Hugh Grant was born on September 9, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Hugh Grant's birth date, September 9, 1960, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Hugh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hugh Grant's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hugh Grant combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Hugh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Taurus 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
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 1.6° orb
Hugh’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 6.5° orb
Hugh’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileUranus0.4° to 0.9° orb
Hugh’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.5° to 1.0° orb
stableMercurysquareMars0.8° to 2.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.6° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Hugh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 28°58′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 16°59′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 27°01′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 28°36′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 2.0°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.9°
Hugh’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Hugh’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, 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.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Jupiter, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
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Born in United Kingdom
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More charts like Hugh’s
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- Rupert GrintEnglish actor
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Born in Rat years
- Rafael GrossiArgentine diplomat
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Also born on September 9
- Luka Modrić1985
- Adam Sandler1966
- Patrick Collison1988
- Dara1998
- Chaim Topol1935
- Hans Georg Dehmelt1922
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Chinua AchebeNigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
- Tomas TranströmerSwedish poet, psychologist and translator
- Bruno MarsAmerican singer-songwriter and record producer
Other Virgo Rat charts
- James PierreAmerican football cornerback
- Michael DeiterAmerican football player
- Quincy WilliamsAmerican football player
- Corey BojorquezAmerican football player (born 1996)
Other Gilded Seekers
- Paul W. WardAmerican newspaper editor
- Vijay SeshadriAmerican poet
- Justin ChangAmerican film critic
- Fred ChappellAmerican poet, novelist
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Mary BadhamAmerican actress
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- Gunnar BjörnstrandSwedish actor
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Hugh’s cards
Computed from September 9, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hugh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q163286 (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 Kurt Kulac, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hugh Grant at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hugh Grant.
Quick answers about Hugh Grant’s chart
- How old is Hugh Grant?
- Hugh Grant is 66 years old, born September 9, 1960 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Hugh Grant?
- Hugh Grant is a Virgo: born September 9, 1960, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Hugh Grant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 9, 1960 birth.
- What is Hugh Grant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Hugh Grant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Hugh Grant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Hugh Grant's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
