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Macaulay Culkin

Macaulay Culkin (born August 26, 1980, New York City, United States), aged 46, is an American actor and singer. Notable films include Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Richie Rich. Culkin's honours include MTV Movie & TV Awards, MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss and Young Artist Awards.

Macaulay Culkin’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Macaulay Culkin’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#5521

US rank in 2025

~282

Americans share it since 1990

1992

its peak year

Macaulay is in US records from 1990, but 1980 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1992.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Macaulay’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

9

Soul Urge · meaning

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Macaulay’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1980, 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 Macaulay apart

The MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss came in 1992, when Macaulay Culkin was 12.

Macaulay Culkin was taught at Professional Children's School and School of American Ballet.

On the family side, Macaulay Culkin was born to Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin, married Brenda Song and Rachel Miner and raised one child.

Chris Pine 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
Professional Children's School and School of American Ballet
Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (1992) and Theatre World Award (2001)
Nominated for
MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
Working from
1985
Citizenship
United States
Languages
French and English
Wikipedia editions
79

What the chart says

Macaulay, according to the stars

Core essence

Macaulay notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Macaulay is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Macaulay is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Macaulay needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Macaulay wants to be loved

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

How Macaulay creates

How Macaulay makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Macaulay creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Macaulay is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Macaulay is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Macaulay fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Macaulay's birth date. Working below.

Where Macaulay sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Macaulay

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Macaulay

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Macaulay

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Macaulay

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

PracticalVisionary
Macaulay

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Macaulay

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Macaulay Culkin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.2° above the horizon in Lyra.

Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

New York City sits at 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States
Lives in
Toluca Lake

Wikidata records Toluca Lake as Macaulay Culkin'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 Macaulay Culkin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Macaulay's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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 →

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Macaulay Culkin's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 26, 1980, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Metal Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Macaulay Culkin was born on August 26, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Macaulay Culkin's birth date, August 26, 1980, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Macaulay’s chart

Macaulay’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 18° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.2° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.1° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 3° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.9° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 6.3° orbSun in Virgo · 3°33′☉3°Moon in Pisces · 10°38′☽10°Mercury in Virgo · 3°43′☿3°Venus in Cancer · 17°46′♀17°Mars in Libra · 28°20′♂28°Jupiter in Virgo · 16°56′♃16°Saturn in Virgo · 26°52′♄26°Uranus in Scorpio · 21°49′♅21°Neptune in Sagittarius · 19°54′ · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Libra · 19°54′♇19°

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.7° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb

    Macaulay’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter0.5° to 1.2° orb

    Macaulay’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableVenussquarePluto1.7° to 2.6° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.8° to 5.0° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.2° to 14.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.2° to 14.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.5° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.8° to 16.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°16′

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 7°13′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 6°22′ (moves 0.80° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 3°40′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Sun 0.1°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.7°

Macaulay’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Macaulay’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.4°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 2.1°

Macaulay’s family here

2 relatives of Macaulay Culkin also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

Born the same day as Macaulay

Chris Pine was born on August 26, 1980 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. New York City sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?

Macaulay’s cards

Computed from August 26, 1980. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Macaulay’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q103578 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Macaulay Culkin 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 Macaulay Culkin.

Quick answers about Macaulay Culkin’s chart

How old is Macaulay Culkin?
Macaulay Culkin is 46 years old, born August 26, 1980 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Macaulay Culkin?
Macaulay Culkin is a Virgo: born August 26, 1980, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Macaulay Culkin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 26, 1980 birth.
How tall is Macaulay Culkin?
Macaulay Culkin is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Macaulay Culkin's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Macaulay Culkin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Macaulay Culkin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Macaulay Culkin's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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