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Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell (born June 13, 1943, Horsforth, United Kingdom), aged 83, is a British actor (born 1943). McDowell's honours include Saturn Awards, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Sitges Grand Honorary Award.

Malcolm McDowell’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Malcolm McDowell’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#272

US rank in 2025

~70,328

Americans share it since 1880

1992

its peak year

The SSA recorded 674 American boys and 5 girls named Malcolm in 1943: 216th among boys and 5,095th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Malcolm’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 M (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

Malcolm’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Malcolm apart

The Sitges Grand Honorary Award came in 2009, when Malcolm McDowell was 66.

Malcolm McDowell was taught at Tonbridge School and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Malcolm McDowell was 14 when the work began in 1957.

On the family side, Malcolm McDowell was born to Edna McDowell and Charles Thomas Taylor, married Mary Steenburgen and Margot Bennett and raised one child.

Wikipedia files Malcolm McDowell under Actors from Horsforth, Male actors from Liverpool and Royal Shakespeare Company members.

Don Hankey 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
Tonbridge School and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Awards
Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2009)
Working from
1957
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
83

What the chart says

Malcolm, according to the stars

Core essence

Malcolm 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. Malcolm needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Malcolm 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 Malcolm 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 Malcolm wants to be loved

Malcolm wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Malcolm openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Malcolm creates

How Malcolm makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Malcolm 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: Malcolm is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Malcolm is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Malcolm 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 Malcolm's birth date. Working below.

Where Malcolm sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Malcolm

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Malcolm

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

PrivateExpressive
Malcolm

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Malcolm

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

PracticalVisionary
Malcolm

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Malcolm

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Malcolm McDowell

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

Computed for 53.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Megrez stood nearest the zenith over Horsforth at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.

At 53.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −36.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Horsforth on any night.

Sun -11° below the horizon, Moon up and 76% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Horsforth, United Kingdom
Lives in
Ojai

Wikidata records Ojai as Malcolm McDowell'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 Malcolm McDowell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Malcolm's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 2 planets 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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Malcolm McDowell at a glance

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Malcolm McDowell's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 13, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Malcolm McDowell was born on June 13, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Malcolm McDowell's birth date, June 13, 1943, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Malcolm’s chart

Malcolm’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.7° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.7° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Gemini · 21°31′☉21°Moon in Libra · 18°25′☽18°Mercury in Taurus · 29°36′☿29°Venus in Leo · 6°14′♀6°Mars in Aries · 12°31′♂12°Jupiter in Cancer · 26°22′♃26°Saturn in Gemini · 16°45′♄16°Uranus in Gemini · 5°41′♅5°Neptune in Virgo · 29°17′♆29°Pluto in Leo · 5°35′♇5°

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

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Malcolm’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb

    Malcolm’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.1° to 1.2° orb

    Malcolm’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.1° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.8° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter3.0° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.9° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.4° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus5.8° to 6.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars6.1° to 6.4° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 25°16′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 27°43′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 26°48′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 16°11′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.9°

Malcolm’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Malcolm’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.9°

Malcolm’s family here

One relative of Malcolm McDowell also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Malcolm

Don Hankey was born on June 13, 1943 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 53.8°N, Horsforth keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Malcolm’s cards

Computed from June 13, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Malcolm’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q117392 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Malcolm McDowell at Wikipedia, malcolmmcdowellonline.com, 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 Malcolm McDowell.

Quick answers about Malcolm McDowell’s chart

How old is Malcolm McDowell?
Malcolm McDowell is 83 years old, born June 13, 1943 in Horsforth, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Malcolm McDowell?
Malcolm McDowell is a Gemini: born June 13, 1943, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Malcolm McDowell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1943 birth.
How tall is Malcolm McDowell?
Malcolm McDowell is 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Malcolm McDowell's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Malcolm McDowell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Malcolm McDowell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Malcolm McDowell's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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