How old is Kip S. Thorne?

Kip S. Thorne is 86 years old, born June 1, 1940 in Logan, United States.

What zodiac sign is Kip S. Thorne?

Kip S. Thorne is a Gemini: born June 1, 1940, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.

What is Kip S. Thorne's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 1, 1940 birth.

What is Kip S. Thorne's Life Path number?

Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.

What is Kip S. Thorne's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where is Kip S. Thorne's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Kip S. Thorne's dominant planet?

Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Kip S. Thorne

Kip S. Thorne (born June 1, 1940, Logan, United States), aged 86, is an American physicist (born 1940). Thorne is best known for The Science of Interstellar and Black Holes and Time Warps. Thorne's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein Medal and Shaw Prize.

Kip S. Thorne’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

Your match with Kip

Kip S. Thorne’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

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

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

#1626

US rank in 2025

~8,722

Americans share it since 1935

1965

its peak year

The SSA recorded 15 American boys named Kip in 1940: 1,851st for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kip’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · the bigger picture

Soul Urge · closeness

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on K (2) and closes on P (7).

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

Kip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Kip apart

Marilyn Monroe (1926) and Morgan Freeman (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Kip, according to the stars

Core essence

Kip is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Kip needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Kip runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Kip needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Kip wants to be loved

Kip 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. Kip gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Kip creates

How Kip makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Kip creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Kip is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Kip 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Kip does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Kip's birth date. Working below.

Where Kip sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network

Kip

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

DeliberateSpontaneous

Kip

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

PrivateExpressive

Kip

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Kip

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

PracticalVisionary

Kip

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Kip

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 Kip S. Thorne

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

Kip’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 84.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 12.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Logan that night

Computed for 41.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Logan at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Logan sits at 41.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Logan at all: they sit past the −48.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 10° below the horizon, Moon down and 15% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Kip's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · A bowl chart

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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Kip S. Thorne at a glance

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Kip S. Thorne's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 1, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Kip S. Thorne was born on June 1, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Kip S. Thorne's birth date, June 1, 1940, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Kip’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Kip S. Thorne's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
Kip S. Thorne combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.

Kip’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Aries depending on the hour.

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.

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

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

stableMercurysquareNeptune0.2° to 2.2° orb
Kip’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.4° to 1.0° orb
Kip’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.4° orb
Kip’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.0° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn4.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 5.5° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 3.0° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.2° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 5.6° to 17.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 6.7° to 18.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

Fire2 of 10
Earth4 of 10
Air2 of 10
Water2 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal3 of 10
Fixed4 of 10
Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ ChironCancer 17°59′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 12°20′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 1°37′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 27°49′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Ceres sextile Venus 0.7°
Ceres square Sun 1.2°
Eros trine Jupiter 2.0°
Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.2°
Ceres sextile Mars 2.6°

Kip’s dominant planets

1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn3 pts
3 major aspects

Configurations in Kip’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.

Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.2°
Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
Mars quintile Neptune 0.9°
Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
Mars semi-square Uranus 1.6°
Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°

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All about Gemini →

Born in Dragon years

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Year of the Dragon →

Also born on June 1

Fellow Yin Wood day masters

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Stefan Helldirector at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
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What a Day Master is →

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Michael CeraCanadian actor

Other Evergreen Healers

Abigail MorrisBritish musician
Dani OlmoSpanish footballer
Miltiadis TentoglouGreek male long jumper
David CarradineAmerican actor

The Evergreen Healer explained →

Famous people with Life Path 3

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Reece JamesEnglish association football player (born 1999)
Ozan KabakTurkish association football player (born 2000)

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Kip’s cards

Computed from June 1, 1940. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q323320 (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 Keenan Pepper, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kip S. Thorne at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kip S. Thorne.

Quick answers about Kip S. Thorne’s chart

How old is Kip S. Thorne?: Kip S. Thorne is 86 years old, born June 1, 1940 in Logan, United States.
What zodiac sign is Kip S. Thorne?: Kip S. Thorne is a Gemini: born June 1, 1940, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Kip S. Thorne's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 1, 1940 birth.
What is Kip S. Thorne's Life Path number?: Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Kip S. Thorne's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kip S. Thorne's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kip S. Thorne's dominant planet?: Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.