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Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann (born December 16, 1938, Tokyo, Japan), aged 87, is a Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1938). Ullmann has served as President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival. Ullmann's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, Academy Honorary Award and David di Donatello for Best Actress.

Liv Ullmann’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Liv Ullmann’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#896

US rank in 2025

~6,901

Americans share it since 1956

2017

its peak year

Liv is in US records from 1956, but 1938 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2017.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Liv’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on L (3) and closes on V (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Liv’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

The record

What sets Liv apart

Arthur C. Clarke (1917) and Zara Larsson (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Liv, according to the stars

Core essence

Liv is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Liv is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Liv cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Liv needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Liv wants to be loved

Liv wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Liv even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Liv creates

How Liv makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Liv creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Liv is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Liv is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Liv runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Liv's birth date. Working below.

Where Liv sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Liv

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Liv

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

PrivateExpressive
Liv

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Liv

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

PracticalVisionary
Liv

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Liv

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Liv Ullmann

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tokyo 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 Tokyo that night

Computed for 35.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Tokyo was Algol, in Perseus, 84.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

Tokyo sits at 35.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 54° below the horizon, Moon down and 25% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Liv's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Liv Ullmann's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 16, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Liv Ullmann was born on December 16, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Liv Ullmann's birth date, December 16, 1938, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Liv’s chart

Liv’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.5° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.2° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.9° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.1° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.1° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Sagittarius · 23°30′☉23°Moon in Libra · 19°06′☽19°Mercury in Sagittarius · 19°24′ · retrograde☿℞19°Venus in Scorpio · 20°08′♀20°Mars in Scorpio · 2°36′♂2°Jupiter in Aquarius · 27°34′♃27°Saturn in Aries · 11°14′♄11°Uranus in Taurus · 14°25′ · retrograde♅℞14°Neptune in Virgo · 23°18′♆23°Pluto in Leo · 1°07′ · retrograde♇℞1°

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

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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

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb

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

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.2° to 1.8° orb

    Liv’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 5.3° orb

    Liv’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune3.1° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.2° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter4.8° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus5.6° to 5.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 1.3° to 14.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 2.1° to 14.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 7°59′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 14°57′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 17°40′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 2°12′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 29°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.5°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.7°
  • Eros sextile Venus 2.5°

Liv’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Liv’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-sextile Venus 0.7°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.0°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°

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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?

Liv’s cards

Computed from December 16, 1938. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Liv’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q191064 (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 Nasjonalbiblioteket, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Liv Ullmann 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 Liv Ullmann.

Quick answers about Liv Ullmann’s chart

How old is Liv Ullmann?
Liv Ullmann is 87 years old, born December 16, 1938 in Tokyo, Japan.
What zodiac sign is Liv Ullmann?
Liv Ullmann is a Sagittarius: born December 16, 1938, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Liv Ullmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 16, 1938 birth.
What is Liv Ullmann's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Liv Ullmann's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Liv Ullmann's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Liv Ullmann's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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