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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Hugh
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
The SSA recorded 1,393 American boys and 16 girls named Hugh in 1926: 128th among boys and 2,295th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hugh’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 8: movement 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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, 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
Elle Fanning (1998) and Leighton Meester (1986) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
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. 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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Hugh Hefner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Chicago at 16:20, Hugh Hefner’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 85.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 10% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -22° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles in 2017.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Hugh's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Purple Star 紫微, The Breaker 破軍 in 未
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Projector, profile 5/1
Emotional authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Hugh Hefner's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time.
What Aries means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Hugh Hefner's birth date, April 9, 1926, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →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.
Placements
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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
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 2.8° orb
SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 3.0° orb
JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 4.4° orb
MercuryconjunctionUranusapplying · 6.5° orb
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 6.7° orb
MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAries 27°21′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 13°32′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 18°22′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 13°59′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°18′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Hugh’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Hugh’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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 |
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Hugh’s cards
Computed from April 9, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
22 · Master Builder♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Hugh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q194280 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hugh Hefner.
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.
- 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.
- What was Hugh Hefner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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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