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Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner (born January 18, 1955, Lynwood, United States, 21:40), aged 71, is an American actor. Notable films include Dances with Wolves, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Costner's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, Academy Award for Best Picture and Academy Award for Best Director.

Kevin Costner’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Kevin Costner’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#221

US rank in 2025

~1,189,844

Americans share it since 1912

1963

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1955, Kevin came 27th among boys and 1,226th among girls, carried by 17,158 American boys and 68 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kevin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

7

Soul Urge · understanding

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on K (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Kevin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

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 1954, 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 Kevin apart

Kevin Costner took the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1991, at 36.

Mt. Whitney High School and Villa Park High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1974, at 19.

The family line: married Christine Baumgartner and Cindy Costner and raised 3 children.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Kevin Costner: Country bandleaders, American sports owners and California State University, Fullerton, alumni.

Paul Keating (1944) and Jason Segel (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Mt. Whitney High School, Villa Park High School and Buena High School
Instruments
voice
Awards
Academy Award for Best Picture (1991), Academy Award for Best Director (1991) and Honorary César (2013)
Nominated for
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor
Working from
1974
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
111

What the chart says

Kevin, according to the stars

Core essence

Kevin is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Kevin is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Kevin is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Kevin needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Kevin wants to be loved

Kevin wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Kevin and watch them fall for you again.

How Kevin creates

How Kevin 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. Kevin 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: Kevin 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Kevin is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Kevin gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Kevin's birth date. Working below.

Where Kevin sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kevin

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kevin

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

PrivateExpressive
Kevin

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kevin

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

PracticalVisionary
Kevin

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kevin

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Kevin Costner

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

Read from the sky above Lynwood at 21:40, Kevin Costner’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Lynwood that night

Computed for 33.92°N, at the documented birth time.

Elnath stood nearest the zenith over Lynwood at the birth hour, 83.8° above the horizon in Taurus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

From 33.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 21% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 55° down.

What Kevin's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 寅.

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 3/5

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Neptune

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.

Score your own chart →

If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Kevin Costner's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.

What Capricorn means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Kevin Costner was born on January 18, 1955, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Kevin Costner's birth date, January 18, 1955, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Kevin’s chart

Kevin’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.2° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.7° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.8° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.8° orbSun in Capricorn · 28°22′ · house 5☉28°Moon in Sagittarius · 4°16′ · house 4☽4°Mercury in Aquarius · 13°35′ · house 6☿13°Venus in Sagittarius · 11°42′ · house 4♀11°Mars in Aries · 2°54′ · house 8♂2°Jupiter in Cancer · 24°27′ · house 11 · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Scorpio · 19°46′ · house 3♄19°Uranus in Cancer · 25°33′ · house 11 · retrograde♅℞25°Neptune in Libra · 28°12′ · house 2♆28°Pluto in Leo · 26°12′ · house 12 · retrograde♇℞26°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 25°29′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 25°29′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCGem 25°05′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSgr 25°05′

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 0.2° orb

    Kevin’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 1.1° orb

    Kevin’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MoontrineMarsseparating · 1.4° orb

    Kevin’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • MercurysextileVenusseparating · 1.9° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.0° orb

  • UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 2.7° orb

  • SunoppositionUranusseparating · 2.8° orb

  • JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb

  • SunoppositionJupiterseparating · 3.9° orb

  • SunsextileMarsapplying · 4.5° orb

  • JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 4.7° orb

  • SaturntrineUranusapplying · 5.8° orb

  • MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 6.2° orb

  • SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 6.4° orb

  • MoonconjunctionVenusapplying · 7.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 29°17′ · House 5

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 25°11′ · House 4

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 21°06′ · House 6

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 17°58′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°18′ · House 3

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.2°
  • Ceres square Ascendant 0.3°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 0.9°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.0°
  • Chiron square Neptune 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 1.2°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.9°

Kevin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Kevin’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Sun, Jupiter, NeptuneAn 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.

  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.2°

Kevin’s houses

Kevin’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 6emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Sagittarius, house 4Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 12Saturnmind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Cancer, house 11Moon, Venushome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 3Suncreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Cancer, house 11Mercurywork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 2emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Aries, house 8Marsshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Sagittarius, house 4emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Sagittarius, house 4Jupiter, Uranusfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Capricorn, house 5Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Kevin’s cards

Computed from January 18, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kevin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11930 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Bill Ingalls, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kevin Costner 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 Kevin Costner.

Quick answers about Kevin Costner’s chart

How old is Kevin Costner?
Kevin Costner is 71 years old, born January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kevin Costner?
Kevin Costner is a Capricorn: born January 18, 1955, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What is Kevin Costner's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1955 birth.
What time was Kevin Costner born?
21:40 local time in Lynwood, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Kevin Costner's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 21:40 birth time in Lynwood, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Kevin Costner?
Kevin Costner is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Kevin Costner's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Kevin Costner's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 29°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kevin Costner's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kevin Costner's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon, Venus; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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