What zodiac sign was Hugh Hefner?

Hugh Hefner was an Aries: born April 9, 1926, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.

What was Hugh Hefner's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 9, 1926 birth.

What time was Hugh Hefner born?

16:20 local time in Chicago, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What was Hugh Hefner's rising sign?

Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 16:20 birth time in Chicago, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

What was Hugh Hefner's Life Path number?

Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the April 9, 1926 birth date.

What was Hugh Hefner's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Aries at 27°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 9, 1926 birth time.

Where was Hugh Hefner's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 23°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Hugh Hefner's dominant planet?

Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon, Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner (born April 9, 1926, Chicago, United States, 16:20; died 2017), was an American businessman and magazine publisher. Hefner is best remembered for Playboy. Hefner's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award.

Hugh Hefner’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Hugh Hefner’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Hugh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

22 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

White · Crimson · Flame orange

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Hugh, according to the stars

Core essence

Hugh 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 Hugh 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, Hugh is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Hugh needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Hugh wants to be loved

Hugh 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 Hugh, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Hugh creates

How Hugh makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Hugh creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Hugh is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Hugh is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Hugh goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Hugh's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Hugh sits

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Intimate circleWide network

Hugh

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

DeliberateSpontaneous

Hugh

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive

Hugh

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Hugh

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary

Hugh

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Hugh

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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Hugh’s birth-sky starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 85.9° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 83.6° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Chicago at 16:20, the birth time on Hugh Hefner’s AA-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Hugh Hefner's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. 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.

Fire Tiger

Leads by moving.

Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 22

Dreams at full scale.

Hugh Hefner's birth date, April 9, 1926, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.

What stands out in Hugh’s chart

Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Hugh Hefner's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Venus in the 7th house and Uranus in the 7th house.
The tightest major aspect in Hugh Hefner's timed chart is Moon trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
Three planets, Moon, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
Hugh Hefner combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.

Hugh’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantVirgo

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

MoontrinePlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Hugh’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 1.4° orb
Hugh’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
JupiteroppositionNeptuneapplying · 1.5° orb
Hugh’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 1.7° orb
Hugh’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 2.8° orb
Hugh’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 3.0° orb
Hugh’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 4.4° orb
Hugh’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MercuryconjunctionUranusapplying · 6.5° orb
Hugh’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 6.7° orb
Hugh’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 7.9° orb
Hugh’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire3 of 10
Earth0 of 10
Air2 of 10
Water5 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal3 of 10
Fixed4 of 10
Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Hugh’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.

⚷ ChironAries 27°21′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Hugh may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 13°32′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Hugh is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosCapricorn 18°22′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Hugh is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCancer 13°59′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Hugh is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°18′ · House 12
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. Hugh is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Hygiea trine Moon 0.4°
Ceres opposition Mars 0.7°
Eros square Sun 0.9°
Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.2°
Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.4°
Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.8°
Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 2.6°

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°).

Hugh’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon, Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; 4 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Hugh is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Hugh’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

Stellium in Pisces · Moon, Venus, UranusThree 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 Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
Sun biquintile Saturn 0.2°
Mars quincunx Pluto 0.2°
Moon semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
Mars semi-square Uranus 1.0°
Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.4°

Hugh’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Virgo	Mercury in Aries, house 8	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Libra	Venus in Pisces, house 7	empty	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Scorpio	Pluto in Cancer, house 11	Saturn	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Aquarius, house 6	empty	home, family, roots
5	Capricorn	Saturn in Scorpio, house 3	empty	creativity, romance, play
6	Aquarius	Uranus in Pisces, house 7	Mars, Jupiter	work, habits, health
7	Pisces	Neptune in Leo, house 12	Moon, Venus, Uranus	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Aries	Mars in Aquarius, house 6	Sun, Mercury	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Taurus	Venus in Pisces, house 7	empty	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Gemini	Mercury in Aries, house 8	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Cancer	Moon in Pisces, house 7	Pluto	friends, community, the future
12	Leo	Sun in Aries, house 8	Neptune	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

Hugh’s family here

One relative of Hugh Hefner also has a chart on AsterNym.

Crystal Harrisformer spouse

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Hugh’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Fool

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The Steadfast Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Hugh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q194280, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Luke Ford, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hugh Hefner at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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.

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Quick answers about Hugh Hefner’s chart

What zodiac sign was Hugh Hefner?: Hugh Hefner was an Aries: born April 9, 1926, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
What was Hugh Hefner's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 9, 1926 birth.
What time was Hugh Hefner born?: 16:20 local time in Chicago, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Hugh Hefner's rising sign?: Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 16:20 birth time in Chicago, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Hugh Hefner's Life Path number?: Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the April 9, 1926 birth date.
What was Hugh Hefner's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Aries at 27°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 9, 1926 birth time.
Where was Hugh Hefner's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 23°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Hugh Hefner's dominant planet?: Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon, Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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Hugh, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Hugh wants to be loved

How Hugh creates

Instinct

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Triggers

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Aries Sun

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Life Path 22

What stands out in Hugh’s chart

Hugh’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Hugh’s dominant planets

Configurations in Hugh’s chart

Minor aspects

Hugh’s houses

Hugh’s family here

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