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Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley (born March 26, 1985, Teddington, United Kingdom), aged 41, is a British actress. Notable films include Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Knightley's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Jupiter Awards and Empire Award for Best Actress.

Keira Knightley’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Keira Knightley’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Keira in the U.S.?

#622

US rank in 2025

~33,843

Americans share it since 1962

2006

its peak year

The SSA recorded 90 American girls named Keira in 1985: 1,418th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Keira’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

11

Soul Urge · insight

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on K (2) and closes on A (1).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Keira’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1985, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Keira apart

The Teen Choice Award for Choice Hissy Fit came in 2006, when Keira Knightley was 21.

Keira Knightley was taught at Esher College and Teddington School.

Keira Knightley was 8 when the work began in 1993.

The family line: born to Sharman Macdonald and Will Knightley and married James Righton.

Jonathan Groff shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Esher College and Teddington School
Awards
Empire Award for Best Actress (2008) and Teen Choice Award for Choice Hissy Fit (2006)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Actress and European Film Award, People's Choice Award for Best European Film
Working from
1993
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
106

What the chart says

Keira, according to the stars

Core essence

Keira leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Keira is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Keira wants to be loved

Keira wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Keira creates

How Keira makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Keira builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Keira is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Keira 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Keira is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Keira's birth date. Working below.

Where Keira sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Keira

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Keira

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Keira

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Keira

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Keira

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Keira

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 Keira Knightley

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

Keira’s birth-night reference starTalithawhite · Ursa MajorTalitha, in Ursa Major. A white star, 85.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Talitha →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 24.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Teddington that night

Computed for 51.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Teddington at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 51.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Teddington at all: they sit past the −38.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 24% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 23° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Teddington, United Kingdom
Lives in
Islington

Wikidata records Islington as Keira Knightley'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 Keira Knightley: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Keira's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Jupiter · Five planets retrograde

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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Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Keira Knightley's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1985, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Wood Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Keira Knightley was born on March 26, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Keira Knightley's birth date, March 26, 1985, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Keira’s chart

Keira’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 5° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.8° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.2° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 4° orbSun in Aries · 5°47′☉5°Moon in Taurus · 29°59′☽29°Mercury in Aries · 18°28′ · retrograde☿℞18°Venus in Aries · 19°01′ · retrograde♀℞19°Mars in Taurus · 8°10′♂8°Jupiter in Aquarius · 9°59′♃9°Saturn in Scorpio · 27°50′ · retrograde♄℞27°Uranus in Sagittarius · 17°59′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Capricorn · 3°35′♆3°Pluto in Scorpio · 4°07′ · retrograde♇℞4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.7° orb

    Keira’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.4° to 0.6° orb

    Keira’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.8° to 1.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter1.6° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto3.7° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.8° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune4.2° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto5.8° to 6.0° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.3° to 11.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 4°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 29°48′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 11°45′ (moves 0.71° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 25°55′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Sun 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 1.8°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.9°
  • Ceres opposition Saturn 2.0°

Keira’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Keira’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 1.7°

Born the same day as Keira

Jonathan Groff was born on March 26, 1985 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 51.4°N, Teddington keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Keira’s cards

Computed from March 26, 1985. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Keira’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42581 (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 Andrea Raffin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Keira Knightley at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Keira Knightley.

Quick answers about Keira Knightley’s chart

How old is Keira Knightley?
Keira Knightley is 41 years old, born March 26, 1985 in Teddington, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Keira Knightley?
Keira Knightley is an Aries: born March 26, 1985, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Keira Knightley's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1985 birth.
What is Keira Knightley's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Keira Knightley's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Keira Knightley's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Keira Knightley's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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