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Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe (born October 13, 1982, Sydney, Australia, 10:52), aged 43, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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 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

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 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.

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Ian sits

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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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The quick version

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

Ian Thorpe's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time. 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 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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

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

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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

    Ian’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • VenussextileMarsapplying · 2.4° orb

    Ian’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 2.7° orb

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

  • MoonsquareUranusapplying · 3.0° orb

    Ian’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.

  • SunsextileMarsseparating · 3.2° orb

    Ian’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 4.6° orb

    Ian’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb

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

  • SunconjunctionSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb

    Ian’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 5.7° orb

    Ian’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • SunconjunctionPlutoapplying · 7.2° orb

    Ian’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

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

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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 26°54′ · House 5

    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.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 7°16′ · House 12

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Ian is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 8°47′ · House 12

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Ian attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 25°52′ · House 9

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Ian is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Ian is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

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

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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  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

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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

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

Every card is computed from October 13, 1982, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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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 data comes from

Ian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185044, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Doha Stadium Plus Qatar from Doha, Qatar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ian Thorpe at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

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.

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Quick answers about Ian Thorpe’s chart

How old is Ian Thorpe?
Ian Thorpe is 43 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog.
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 from the October 13, 1982 birth date.
What is Ian Thorpe's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 26°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 13, 1982 birth time.
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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