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Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe (born October 13, 1982, Sydney, Australia, 10:52), aged 44, is an Australian swimmer. Thorpe's honours include Medal of the Order of Australia, Member of the Order of Australia and Australian Sports Medal.

Ian Thorpe’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Ian Thorpe’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, 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

The SSA recorded 3,574 American boys and 29 girls named Ian in 1982: 83rd among boys and 3,043rd among girls 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.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

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

7 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Ian apart

The Australian Sports Medal came in 2000, when Ian Thorpe was 18.

Study took Ian Thorpe to East Hills Boys High School.

Ian Thorpe was 18 when the work began in 2000.

Margaret Thatcher (1925) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
East Hills Boys High School
Awards
Centenary Medal (2001), Australian Sports Medal (2000) and St Andrews Prize for the Environment (2005)
Working from
2000
Wikipedia editions
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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.

The vibe

Underneath, Ian needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Ian needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Ian wants to be loved

Ian wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Ian gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Ian creates

How Ian makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ian creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Ian is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ian is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Ian has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ian

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

PrivateExpressive
Ian

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

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 sky

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Ian’s birth-sky starKrazyellow · CorvusKraz, in Corvus. A yellow star, 79.1° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Kraz →The warmest lightRigil Kentaurusyellow · CentaurusRigil Kentaurus, in Centaurus. A yellow star, 55.3° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Rigil Kentaurus →

Read from the sky above Sydney at 10:52, Ian Thorpe’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Sydney that night

Computed for 33.87°S, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Sydney at the birth hour: Kraz of Corvus, within 10.9° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 76 catalog stars were up in all.

From 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 18% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -61° down.

What Ian's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Debater 巨門 in 辰

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 5/1

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

79 / 100 · Rare

5-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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The quick version

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

Ian Thorpe's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time.

What Libra means →

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Ian Thorpe was born on October 13, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Ian Thorpe's birth date, October 13, 1982, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Ian’s chart

Ian’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.1° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.4° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 3° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Libra · 19°22′ · house 10☉19°Moon in Leo · 29°15′ · house 8☽29°Mercury in Libra · 2°43′ · house 10☿2°Venus in Libra · 13°42′ · house 10♀13°Mars in Sagittarius · 16°08′ · house 12♂16°Jupiter in Scorpio · 14°02′ · house 11♃14°Saturn in Libra · 24°27′ · house 10♄24°Uranus in Sagittarius · 2°17′ · house 12♅2°Neptune in Sagittarius · 24°39′ · house 12♆24°Pluto in Libra · 26°33′ · house 10♇26°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 19°36′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 19°36′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLib 5°58′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAri 5°58′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCapricorn
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SaturnsextileNeptuneapplying · 0.2° orb

    Ian’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MercurysextileUranusseparating · 0.4° orb

    Ian’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.9° orb

    Ian’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SaturnconjunctionPlutoapplying · 2.1° orb

  • VenussextileMarsapplying · 2.4° orb

  • MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 2.7° orb

  • MoonsquareUranusapplying · 3.0° orb

  • SunsextileMarsseparating · 3.2° orb

  • MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 4.6° orb

  • MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb

  • SunconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb

  • SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 5.7° orb

  • SunconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Ian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 26°54′ · House 5

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 7°16′ · House 12

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 8°47′ · House 12

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 25°52′ · House 9

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 12°41′ · House 1

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Chiron square Moon 2.4°

Ian’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun10 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Ian’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Moon semi-square Venus 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury quintile Mars 1.4°

Ian’s houses

Ian’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Libra, house 10emptyself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 12emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 12emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 12emptyhome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Libra, house 10emptycreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Libra, house 10emptywork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Leo, house 8emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Libra, house 10Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Libra, house 10emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Libra, house 10Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Plutocareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 10Jupiterfriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 11Mars, Uranus, Neptunethe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Ian’s cards

Computed from October 13, 1982. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185044 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Doha Stadium Plus Qatar from Doha, Qatar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ian Thorpe.

Quick answers about Ian Thorpe’s chart

How old is Ian Thorpe?
Ian Thorpe is 44 years old, born October 13, 1982 in Sydney, Australia.
What zodiac sign is Ian Thorpe?
Ian Thorpe is a Libra: born October 13, 1982, which puts the Sun in Libra at the documented birth time.
What is Ian Thorpe's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 13, 1982 birth.
What time was Ian Thorpe born?
10:52 local time in Sydney, Australia, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Ian Thorpe's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 10:52 birth time in Sydney, Australia (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall is Ian Thorpe?
Ian Thorpe is 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Ian Thorpe's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Ian Thorpe's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 26°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ian Thorpe's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 12°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ian Thorpe's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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