Kevin McKidd
Kevin McKidd (born August 9, 1973, Elgin, United Kingdom), aged 53, is a Scottish actor.
Kevin McKidd’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Kevin
Kevin McKidd’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 1973, Kevin came 14th among boys and 924th among girls, carried by 20,768 American boys and 134 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kevin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on K (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
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
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1973, 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
Training came by way of Elgin Academy and Queen Margaret University.
The working life starts in 1996, at 23.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Kevin McKidd: People educated at Elgin Academy, Moray, Scottish emigrants to the United States and Alumni of Queen Margaret University.
Whitney Houston (1963) and Gillian Anderson (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Elgin Academy, Queen Margaret University and University of Edinburgh
- Working from
- 1996
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
What the chart says
Kevin, according to the stars
Core essence
Kevin is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Kevin is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Kevin wants to be loved
Kevin wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Kevin and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Kevin creates
How Kevin makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Kevin creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Kevin 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Kevin is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Kevin leads without needing to do it alone.
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.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Kevin McKidd
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Elgin 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 Elgin that night
Computed for 57.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Elgin at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 6.9° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
At 57.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Elgin at all: they sit past the −32.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 84% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -1° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Elgin, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Kevin McKidd'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 Kevin McKidd: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Kevin's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Kevin McKidd's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 9, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Kevin McKidd was born on August 9, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Kevin McKidd's birth date, August 9, 1973, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Kevin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kevin McKidd's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kevin McKidd combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Kevin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMercurysquareMars0.6° to 1.1° orb
Kevin’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
Kevin’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Kevin’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.0° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
stableSunsextileUranus2.6° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 1.4° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.5° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 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, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°48′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 28°42′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 20°06′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 29°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.5°
- Eros square Saturn 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.4°
Kevin’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Kevin’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
More people like Kevin
Other actors
- Ioan Gruffudd1973
- Kate Beckinsale1973
- Tisca Chopra1973
- Kathryn Hahn1973
- Nick Lachey1973
- Brian Austin Green1973
Born in United Kingdom
- Robbie WilliamsBritish singer
- Kate BeckinsaleEnglish actress
- James BluntEnglish singer-songwriter (born 1974)
- Jack DavenportBritish actor
- Victoria BeckhamEnglish businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
- Jude LawEnglish actor
More charts like Kevin’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Russell BakerAmerican writer and satirist
- Harry AshmoreAmerican journalist and newspaper editor, recipient of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize
- Joseph KahnAmerican journalist
Born in Ox years
- Robert CampbellAmerican architect and writer
- Russel B. NyeAmerican academic
- Vance TrimbleAmerican journalist
Also born on August 9
- Whitney Houston1963
- Gillian Anderson1968
- John Key1961
- Eric Bana1968
- Willian1988
- Mário Zagallo1931
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Frederic L. PaxsonPulitzer Prize for History winner
- Craig FlournoyAmerican journalist and teacher, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Frances FitzGeraldAmerican journalist and author
Other Leo Ox charts
- Sergey BrinAmerican billionaire businessman
- Ernest LawrenceAmerican nuclear physicist
- Kate BeckinsaleEnglish actress
- Kylie JennerAmerican media personality
Other Radiant Scholars
- Alfred NobelSwedish chemist and inventor
- Werner HeisenbergGerman theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner
- Tom HanksAmerican actor and film producer
- Amitabh BachchanIndian film actor
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Masatoshi KoshibaJapanese physicist and astronomer
- Mairead Maguirepeace activist (born 1944)
- George Andrew OlahHungarian chemist
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Kevin’s cards
Computed from August 9, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kevin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312133 (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 gdcgraphics, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kevin McKidd at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 McKidd.
Quick answers about Kevin McKidd’s chart
- How old is Kevin McKidd?
- Kevin McKidd is 53 years old, born August 9, 1973 in Elgin, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Kevin McKidd?
- Kevin McKidd is a Leo: born August 9, 1973, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Kevin McKidd's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1973 birth.
- How tall is Kevin McKidd?
- Kevin McKidd is 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Kevin McKidd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kevin McKidd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Kevin McKidd's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kevin McKidd's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
