Idris Elba
Idris Elba (born Idrissa Akuna Elba; September 6, 1972, Hackney, London, United Kingdom), aged 54, is a British actor. Elba is best known for Finding Dory, The Jungle Book and Zootopia. Elba's honours include Knight Bachelor, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and honorary doctorate.
Idris Elba’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Idris
Idris Elba’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Idris in the U.S.?
#694
US rank in 2025
~5,084
Americans share it since 1914
2025
its peak year
Idris ranked 1,481st in 1972, the year of this birth, with 33 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Idris’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Idrissa Akuna Elba, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on I (9) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Idris’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Idris apart
The shelf Idris Elba is read from: Zootopia 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Thor.
Barking and Dagenham College and National Youth Music Theatre shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1994, at 22.
The family line: married Sabrina Dhowre.
The same date carries China Miéville. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Zootopia 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Thor
- Educated at
- Barking and Dagenham College and National Youth Music Theatre
- Awards
- Knight Bachelor (2026), Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2016) and The King's Trust (1988)
- Nominated for
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor and The Game Awards − Best Performance
- Working from
- 1994
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and Sierra Leone
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 86
What the chart says
Idris, according to the stars
Core essence
Idris 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 Idris is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Idris wants to be loved
Idris wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Idris gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Idris creates
How Idris makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Idris 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: Idris is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Idris 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Idris channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Idris's birth date. Working below.
Where Idris sits
Six lines
Idris’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Idris Elba
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London Borough of Hackney on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over London Borough of Hackney that night
Computed for 51.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over London Borough of Hackney at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.7° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
London Borough of Hackney sits at 51.5°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 −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Idrissa Akuna Elba
- Known as
- Idris Elba
- Born in
- London Borough of Hackney, United Kingdom
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Idris Elba: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Idris's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Virgo · A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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.
Score your own chart →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Idris Elba's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 6, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Idris Elba was born on September 6, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Idris Elba's birth date, September 6, 1972, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Idris’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Idris Elba's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Idris Elba combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Idris’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.8° orb
Idris’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.5° orb
Idris’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.2° to 0.5° orb
Idris’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.2° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussextilePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.6° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Idris’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°26′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 2°45′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 28°40′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 18°46′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 21°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.5°
Idris’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Idris’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · 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.
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
Born the same day as Idris
China Miéville was born on September 6, 1972 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 51.5°N, London Borough of Hackney keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Idris
Other actors
- Gabrielle Union1972
- Jennifer Garner1972
- Eminem1972
- Carmen Electra1972
- Danny Lloyd1972
- Laverne Cox1972
Born in United Kingdom
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- Rupert SandersBritish film director
- Jack DavenportBritish actor
- Ewan McGregorScottish actor
- Jude LawEnglish actor
- Paul BettanyBritish actor
More charts like Idris’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Michael KeatonAmerican actor
- Lala KentAmerican media personality
- Eric JohnsonAmerican football player
Born in Rat years
- Erik Axel KarlfeldtSwedish poet
- Salvador LuriaItalian American microbiologist
- F. W. de Klerk7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
Also born on September 6
- Max George1988
- Pippa Middleton1983
- Shay Rudolph2005
- Asher Angel2002
- Jane Addams1860
- Edward Victor Appleton1892
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Stanley FormanAmerican photographer (born 1945)
- Maxwell AndersonAmerican playwright and writer
- Peter Matthew Hillsman TaylorAmerican writer
Other Virgo Rat charts
- Gwyn ThomasWelsh poet
- Bob EggletonAmerican artist
- China MiévilleEnglish writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)
- Vonda N. McIntyreAmerican science fiction writer
Other Gilded Seekers
- Tim Berners-LeeEnglish computer scientist
- Novak DjokovicSerbian tennis player
- Shah Rukh KhanIndian actor, producer and television personality
- Herta MüllerGerman-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Grover StewartAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Jerry TilleryAmerican football player
- Jalen ThompsonAmerican football safety
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Idris’s cards
Computed from September 6, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Idris’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q342604 (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.
The same Idris Elba at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Idris Elba.
Quick answers about Idris Elba’s chart
- How old is Idris Elba?
- Idris Elba is 54 years old, born September 6, 1972 in Hackney, London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Idris Elba?
- Idris Elba is a Virgo: born September 6, 1972, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Idris Elba's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 6, 1972 birth.
- How tall is Idris Elba?
- Idris Elba is 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Idris Elba's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Idris Elba's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Idris Elba's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Idris Elba's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
