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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
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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 1880
2005
its peak year
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Ian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ian sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Ian Holm, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Ian’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.8° orb
Ian’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.5° to 3.8° orb
Ian’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextilePluto2.6° to 3.6° orb
Ian’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquarePluto3.3° orb
Ian’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquarePluto4.6° to 5.2° orb
Ian’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.1° orb
Ian’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineUranus6.1° to 6.3° orb
Ian’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 23°33′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ian building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°43′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Ian is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosScorpio 27°38′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Ian is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLeo 6°03′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Ian at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 4°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Ian carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.7°
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°).
Ian’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Ian is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Ian’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ian Holm, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Ian
George Jones was born on September 12, 1931 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Ian’s cards
Every card is computed from September 12, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Ian Holm, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Ian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223091, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- 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.
- What time was Ian Holm born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- 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 from the September 12, 1931 birth date.
- What was Ian Holm's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 12, 1931 birth date.
- 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.
