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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman (born October 12, 1968, Sydney, Australia), aged 58, is an Australian and English actor, singer, and film producer. Jackman is best known for Logan, The Greatest Showman and Deadpool & Wolverine. Jackman's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.

Hugh Jackman’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Hugh Jackman’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Strategist

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

Of the names registered in 1968, Hugh came 351st among boys and 4,902nd among girls, carried by 494 American boys and 9 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Hugh’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

5

Soul Urge · freedom

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

1 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Blush · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1968, 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

What keeps Hugh Jackman in print: X-Men, Happy Feet and Les Misérables.

The classrooms behind this chart: Edith Cowan University and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

The working life starts in 1994, at 26.

On the family side, Hugh Jackman was married Deborra-Lee Furness.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Hugh Jackman: Australian male video game actors, Drink company founders and Male actors from Sydney.

Luciano Pavarotti (1935) and Aleister Crowley (1875) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
X-Men, Happy Feet and Les Misérables
Educated at
Edith Cowan University, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Knox Grammar School
Instruments
voice
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (2012), Time 100 (2018) and Donostia Award (2013)
Nominated for
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama and Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1994
Citizenship
United Kingdom and Australia
Languages
Australian English
Wikipedia editions
106

What the chart says

Hugh, according to the stars

Core essence

Hugh makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Hugh 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, Hugh processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Hugh needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Hugh wants to be loved

Hugh wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Hugh even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Hugh creates

How Hugh makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Hugh creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Hugh is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Hugh is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Hugh leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Hugh 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 Hugh's birth date. Working below.

Where Hugh sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Hugh

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hugh

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

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Hugh Jackman

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sydney 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 Sydney that night

Computed for 33.87°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sydney was Fomalhaut, in Piscis Austrinus, 83.0° up.

Canopus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 68 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The Moon, 70% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Sydney, Australia
Lives in
London · New York City

Wikidata records London and New York City as Hugh Jackman'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 Hugh Jackman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Hugh's chart is

Chart pattern score

43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · 1 unaspected planet · 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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Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Hugh Jackman's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 12, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Hugh Jackman was born on October 12, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Hugh Jackman's birth date, October 12, 1968, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Hugh’s chart

Hugh’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.1° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.7° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.5° orbSun in Libra · 18°48′☉18°Moon in Gemini · 20°55′☽20°Mercury in Libra · 26°32′ · retrograde☿℞26°Venus in Scorpio · 18°50′♀18°Mars in Virgo · 12°41′♂12°Jupiter in Virgo · 23°26′♃23°Saturn in Aries · 22°21′ · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Libra · 0°50′♅0°Neptune in Scorpio · 24°55′♆24°Pluto in Virgo · 23°37′♇23°

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.1° to 0.3° orb

    Hugh’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune1.4° to 1.6° orb

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

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn3.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.7° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus7.3° to 7.5° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 25°49′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 17°20′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 0°23′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 12°58′ (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 square Mars 0.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.9°
  • Eros sextile Sun 1.5°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 2.2°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.4°

Hugh’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Hugh’s chart

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

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
  • Mars quintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.1°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.1°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°

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Hugh’s cards

Computed from October 12, 1968. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hugh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q129591 (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 Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hugh Jackman at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Jackman.

Quick answers about Hugh Jackman’s chart

How old is Hugh Jackman?
Hugh Jackman is 58 years old, born October 12, 1968 in Sydney, Australia.
What zodiac sign is Hugh Jackman?
Hugh Jackman is a Libra: born October 12, 1968, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Hugh Jackman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 12, 1968 birth.
What is Hugh Jackman's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Hugh Jackman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Hugh Jackman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Hugh Jackman's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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