Ian Holm
Ian Holm (born September 12, 1931, Goodmayes, United Kingdom; died 2020), was a British actor. Holm is best remembered for The Lord of the Rings, Chariots of Fire and Alien. Holm's honours include Knight Bachelor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
Ian Holm’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Ian
Ian Holm’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ian in the U.S.?
#83
US rank in 2025
~258,479
Americans share it since 1912
2005
its peak year
The SSA recorded 43 American boys named Ian in 1931: 1,020th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on I (9) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
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 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, 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 Ian apart
The record Ian Holm is measured by: The Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire.
Ian Holm was taught at Chigwell School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Ian Holm was 27 when the work began in 1958.
The record gives pneumonia as the cause, and Highgate Cemetery as the resting place.
Ian Holm was married Sophie de Stempel and Penelope Wilton and raised one child.
George Jones shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- The Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire
- Educated at
- Chigwell School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1969), Knight Bachelor (1998) and Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (1967)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1958
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Buried at
- Highgate Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
What the chart says
Ian, according to the stars
Core essence
Ian 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 Ian is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Ian wants to be loved
Ian wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Ian and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Ian creates
How Ian makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ian 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: Ian is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Ian 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Ian fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Ian's birth date. Working below.
Where Ian sits
Six lines
Ian’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 Ian Holm
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Goodmayes 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 Goodmayes that night
Computed for 51.56°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Goodmayes at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.7° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 51.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
How unusual Ian's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Uranus
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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Ian Holm's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Ian Holm was born on September 12, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Ian Holm's birth date, September 12, 1931, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Ian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ian Holm's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, 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.
- Ian Holm combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Ian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.3° orb
Ian’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.0° to 1.3° orb
Ian’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextilePluto1.3° to 2.6° orb
Ian’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.8° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.5° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsextilePluto2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.1° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus6.1° to 6.3° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 23°33′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°43′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 27°38′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 6°03′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 4°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.7°
Ian’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Ian’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.4°
Born the same day as Ian
George Jones was born on September 12, 1931 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Goodmayes, at 51.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Ian
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- John Gavin1931
- Anthony Perkins1932
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- Walter Mercado1932
- Olympia Dukakis1931
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Born in United Kingdom
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Born in Goat years
- Whoopi GoldbergAmerican actress, comedian, author and television personality
- Tomas TranströmerSwedish poet, psychologist and translator
- Louise GlückU.S. poet and Nobel laureate
Also born on September 12
- Stanisław Lem1921
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- RM1994
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Will RileyCanadian basketball player (born 2006)
- Ryan Dunn (basketball)American basketball player (born 2003)
- Maika MonroeAmerican actress (born 1993)
Other Virgo Goat charts
- Andrew EastAmerican football player (born 1991)
- Max GreenfieldAmerican actor (born 1979)
- Scott HoyingAmerican singer
- Faith HillAmerican country singer (born 1967)
Other Gilded Storytellers
- James WrightAmerican poet, born 1927
- Max KaseAmerican newspaper writer and editor
- Walter A. McDougallAmerican historian
- Aaron CoplandAmerican composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Merlo J. PuseyAmerican journalist and nonfiction writer
- Hal BoyleAmerican journalist
- David MametAmerican playwright, filmmaker and author (born 1947)
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Ian’s cards
Computed from September 12, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223091 (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 CossieMoJo at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ian Holm at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ian Holm.
Quick answers about Ian Holm’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ian Holm?
- Ian Holm was a Virgo: born September 12, 1931, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Ian Holm's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1931 birth.
- How tall was Ian Holm?
- Ian Holm was 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Ian Holm's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ian Holm's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ian Holm's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ian Holm's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
