Hugh Keays-Byrne
Hugh Keays-Byrne (born May 18, 1947, Srinagar, India; died 2020), was a British-Australian actor.
Hugh Keays-Byrne’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Hugh
Hugh Keays-Byrne’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, 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
The SSA recorded 1,201 American boys named Hugh in 1947: 176th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against analysis.
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
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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
Hugh Keays-Byrne was 21 when the work began in 1968.
Wikipedia files Hugh Keays-Byrne under Male actors from Srinagar, Australian film directors and British people in British India.
Tina Fey (1970) and Chow Yun-fat (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Working from
- 1968
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 23
What the chart says
Hugh, according to the stars
Core essence
Hugh is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Hugh is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Hugh wants to be loved
Hugh wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Hugh creates
How Hugh makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Hugh creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Hugh is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Hugh 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Hugh gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Keays-Byrne
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Srinagar 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 Srinagar that night
Computed for 34.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Srinagar at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 9.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
Srinagar sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Srinagar on any night.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Srinagar, India
The death is recorded at Gosford, Central Coast in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hugh Keays-Byrne: 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
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree · 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 →Hugh Keays-Byrne at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Hugh Keays-Byrne's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Hugh Keays-Byrne was born on May 18, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Hugh Keays-Byrne's birth date, May 18, 1947, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Hugh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hugh Keays-Byrne's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Hugh Keays-Byrne combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Hugh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.2° orb
Hugh’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.3° to 3.5° orb
Hugh’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
Hugh’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.3° to 6.4° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.5° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.4° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 1.0° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Hugh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 3°55′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 14°12′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 20°47′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°05′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.3°
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.4°
Hugh’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Hugh’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.8°
More people like Hugh
Other actors
- Marisa Berenson1947
- Barbara Hershey1948
- Edward James Olmos1947
- Ted Danson1947
- Pete Edochie1947
- Joe Walsh1947
Born in India
- Adi GodrejIndian businessman
- Vinod KhoslaIndian-American businessman
- Amitabh BachchanIndian film actor
- Vijay SeshadriAmerican poet
- Nusli WadiaIndian businessman (born 1944)
- Anil Agarwalbusinessman
More charts like Hugh’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Ellyes SkhiriTunisian and French association football player
- Rúben DiasPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
- Mikel OyarzabalSpanish footballer (born 1997)
Born in Pig years
- Kristi YamaguchiAmerican figure skater
- Rachel ZoeAmerican fashion stylist
- Bradley WhitfordAmerican actor (born 1959)
Also born on May 18
- Tina Fey1970
- Chow Yun-fat1955
- Teresa Giudice1972
- Travis Hunter2003
- Emma Navarro2001
- Theodor Loos1883
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Niels Kaj JerneDanish immunologist
- Duncan Haldaneprofessor of physics at Princeton University
- David BakerAmerican biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)
Other Taurus Pig charts
- H. Robert HorvitzAmerican biologist
- Jim PeeblesCanadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Michael Levittbiophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
- Yusef KomunyakaaAmerican poet and academic (born 1947)
Other Radiant Scholars
- James FranckGerman-American physicist
- Marvin HamlischAmerican composer and conductor
- John HarbisonAmerican composer
- Kenneth SilvermanAmerican biographer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jennette McCurdyAmerican writer and former actress
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Hugh’s cards
Computed from May 18, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hugh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2065707 (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 zombieite, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hugh Keays-Byrne at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hugh Keays-Byrne.
Quick answers about Hugh Keays-Byrne’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hugh Keays-Byrne?
- Hugh Keays-Byrne was a Taurus: born May 18, 1947, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Hugh Keays-Byrne's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1947 birth.
- What was Hugh Keays-Byrne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hugh Keays-Byrne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hugh Keays-Byrne's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hugh Keays-Byrne's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
