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Ian McShane

Ian McShane (born September 29, 1942, Blackburn, United Kingdom), aged 84, 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, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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 1912

2005

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1942, Ian came 719th, carried by 80 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ian’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on I (9) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, 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

Ian McShane took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Television Series Drama in 2005, at 63.

Stretford Grammar School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1962, at 20.

Ian McShane was married Gwen Humble.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Ian McShane: People educated at Stretford Grammar School, Male actors from Blackburn and Farmer-Owens family.

Enrico Fermi (1901) and Michelle Bachelet (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Stretford Grammar School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Television Series Drama (2005)
Working from
1962
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
88

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. Working below.

Where Ian sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ian

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ian

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

PrivateExpressive
Ian

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ian

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Ian

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ian

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ian McShane

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Blackburn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ian’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 80.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 17.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Blackburn that night

Computed for 53.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Blackburn at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.

Blackburn sits at 53.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 74% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Blackburn, United Kingdom
Lives in
Venice

Wikidata records Venice as Ian McShane'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 Ian McShane: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Ian's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · 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

Beauty 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.

What Libra means →

Water Horse

Open road, open heart.

Ian McShane was born on September 29, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Ian McShane's birth date, September 29, 1942, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Ian’s chart

Ian’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.1° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.2° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.7° orbSun in Libra · 5°40′☉5°Moon in Gemini · 3°00′☽3°Mercury in Libra · 25°58′ · retrograde☿℞25°Venus in Virgo · 23°22′♀23°Mars in Libra · 7°49′♂7°Jupiter in Cancer · 22°14′♃22°Saturn in Gemini · 12°30′ · retrograde♄℞12°Uranus in Gemini · 4°26′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Virgo · 29°51′♆29°Pluto in Leo · 6°54′♇6°

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

  • 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

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.8° to 1.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars2.0° to 2.3° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.1° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter3.6° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn4.4° to 5.0° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 6.3° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 24°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 24°51′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 5°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 3°38′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 3°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Ian’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Ian’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quintile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 1.5°

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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

Computed from September 29, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234141 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ian McShane 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 McShane.

Quick answers about Ian McShane’s chart

How old is Ian McShane?
Ian McShane is 84 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.
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 is Ian McShane's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Ian McShane's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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