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Lucas Hedges

Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996, Brooklyn, United States), aged 29, is an American actor. Hedges's honours include Critics' Choice Awards.

Lucas Hedges’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Lucas Hedges’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 Lucas in the U.S.?

#10

US rank in 2025

~331,628

Americans share it since 1881

2017

its peak year

The SSA recorded 4,106 American boys named Lucas in 1996: 93rd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lucas’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

5

Soul Urge · freedom

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.

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

Lucas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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 Lucas apart

The Critics' Choice Awards came in 2016, when Lucas Hedges was 20.

The schooling ran through Saint Ann's School and University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Lucas Hedges was 11 when the work began in 2007.

The family line: born to Peter Hedges.

Wikipedia files Lucas Hedges under People from Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Sexually fluid men and University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni.

Stephen Carlson 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
Saint Ann's School and University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Awards
Critics' Choice Awards (2016)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
2007
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
38

What the chart says

Lucas, according to the stars

Core essence

Lucas is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Lucas 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, Lucas is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Lucas needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Lucas wants to be loved

Lucas 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 Lucas even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Lucas creates

How Lucas makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Lucas creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Lucas is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Lucas 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Lucas channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Lucas's birth date. Working below.

Where Lucas sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Lucas

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lucas

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

PrivateExpressive
Lucas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lucas

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

PracticalVisionary
Lucas

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lucas

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Lucas Hedges

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

Lucas’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 84.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 13.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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

The sky over Brooklyn that night

Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Almach, in Andromeda, 84.4° up.

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

Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.

The Moon, 8% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.

How unusual Lucas's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all · 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.

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Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Lucas Hedges's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 12, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Lucas Hedges was born on December 12, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Lucas Hedges's birth date, December 12, 1996, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Lucas’s chart

Lucas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.8° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.6° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.8° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.6° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.6° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbSun in Sagittarius · 20°58′☉20°Moon in Capricorn · 18°12′☽18°Mercury in Capricorn · 11°00′☿10°Venus in Scorpio · 24°22′♀24°Mars in Virgo · 21°47′♂21°Jupiter in Capricorn · 20°49′♃20°Saturn in Aries · 0°41′♄0°Uranus in Aquarius · 2°16′♅2°Neptune in Capricorn · 26°10′♆26°Pluto in Sagittarius · 3°41′♇3°

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

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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

  • stableSunsquareMars0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Lucas’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.9° to 1.1° orb

    Lucas’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune1.2° to 2.4° orb

    Lucas’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.6° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars2.2° to 3.0° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto3.0° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune4.2° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn5.7° to 6.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 28°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°14′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 7°07′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 11°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.2°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.8°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.2°

Lucas’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Lucas’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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°

Born the same day as Lucas

Stephen Carlson was born on December 12, 1996 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Brooklyn, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Lucas’s cards

Computed from December 12, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Emperor

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Lucas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17488953 (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 UPROXX, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Lucas Hedges at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lucas Hedges.

Quick answers about Lucas Hedges’s chart

How old is Lucas Hedges?
Lucas Hedges is 29 years old, born December 12, 1996 in Brooklyn, United States.
What zodiac sign is Lucas Hedges?
Lucas Hedges is a Sagittarius: born December 12, 1996, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Lucas Hedges's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 12, 1996 birth.
What is Lucas Hedges's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Lucas Hedges's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Lucas Hedges's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Lucas Hedges's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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