Ian McShane
Ian McShane (born September 29, 1942, Blackburn, United Kingdom), aged 83, is an English actor (born 1942). McShane's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.
Ian McShane’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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Ian McShane’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Ian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Blush · Soft pink
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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Ian 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.
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 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. Ian 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: Ian is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Ian is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Ian McShane's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 29, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Ian McShane was born on September 29, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Ian McShane's birth date, September 29, 1942, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Ian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ian McShane's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ian McShane combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Ian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ian McShane, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.1° to 7.5° orb
Ian’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.6° to 1.7° orb
Ian’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMarssextilePluto0.6° to 1.2° orb
Ian’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineUranus0.7° to 1.7° orb
Ian’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsextilePluto0.8° to 1.7° orb
Ian’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMars2.0° to 2.3° orb
Ian’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableUranussextilePluto2.5° orb
Ian’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineUranus3.1° to 3.7° orb
Ian’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.6° to 3.8° orb
Ian’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineSaturn4.4° to 5.0° orb
Ian’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.6° orb
Ian’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 6.3° orb
Ian’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ ChironLeo 24°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Ian performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 24°51′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Ian is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 5°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Ian is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaLeo 3°38′ (moves 0.26° 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 LilithCancer 3°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Ian guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Eros trine Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Venus 1.5°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.5°
- Eros trine Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.1°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.6°
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. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ian is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Libra · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 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 quintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ian McShane, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Also born on September 29
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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Other Libra Horse charts
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Ian’s cards
Every card is computed from September 29, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ian McShane, 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 Q234141, 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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ian McShane 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 McShane.
Quick answers about Ian McShane’s chart
- How old is Ian McShane?
- Ian McShane is 83 years old, born September 29, 1942 in Blackburn, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ian McShane?
- Ian McShane is a Libra: born September 29, 1942, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- What is Ian McShane's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 29, 1942 birth.
- What time was Ian McShane 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.
- What is Ian McShane's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the September 29, 1942 birth date.
- What is Ian McShane's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 29, 1942 birth date.
- Where is Ian McShane's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ian McShane's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
