Matt Damon
Matt Damon (born Matthew Paige Damon; October 8, 1970, Cambridge, United States, 15:22), aged 55, is an American actor. Notable films include Interstellar, Saving Private Ryan and Oppenheimer. Damon's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture.
Matt Damon’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Matt Damon’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~23,892
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
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Matt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Matt, according to the stars
Core essence
Matt makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Matt is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Matt 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 Matt needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Matt wants to be loved
Matt 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 Matt even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Matt creates
How Matt makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Matt 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: Matt is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Matt is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Matt 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 Matt's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Matt Damon's Sun was in Libra at the documented birth time. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Matt Damon was born on October 8, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Matt Damon's birth date, October 8, 1970, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Matt’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Matt Damon's timed chart: Venus in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 10th house, Saturn in the 4th house and Neptune in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Matt Damon's timed chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Matt Damon combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Matt’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenussextileMarsapplying · 0.1° orb
Matt’s affections open doors for their drive.
MoonsextileVenusseparating · 0.3° orb
Matt’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineMarsseparating · 0.3° orb
Matt’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarstrineSaturnseparating · 1.0° orb
Matt’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
VenusoppositionSaturnseparating · 1.1° orb
Matt’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.1° orb
Matt’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineSaturnseparating · 1.3° orb
Matt’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 2.7° orb
Matt’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
MercuryconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.9° orb
Matt’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoontrinePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb
Matt’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MarsconjunctionPlutoapplying · 5.3° orb
Matt’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 5.5° orb
Matt’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 6.3° orb
Matt’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 6.4° orb
Matt’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SaturnoppositionNeptuneseparating · 7.4° orb
Matt’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercuryconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.8° orb
Matt’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Matt’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 7°46′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Matt may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 4°09′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Matt is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCapricorn 12°08′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Matt is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLeo 8°30′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Matt at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°56′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Matt exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Ascendant 1.8°
- Ceres square Ascendant 1.8°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros square Uranus 2.6°
- Hygiea opposition Ascendant 2.6°
- Eros square Sun 3.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Matt’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn11.5 pts
rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto8 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Matt is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Matt’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Kite · Moon, Mars, Saturn, VenusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Grand trine · Moon, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Moon quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.9°
Matt’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 9 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 10 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 8 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 10 | Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Libra, house 9 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Capricorn, house 12 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Libra, house 9 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Libra, house 9 | Mars, Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 10 | Sun, Mercury, Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 8 | Venus, Jupiter, Neptune | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 10 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 4 | Moon | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Soon-Yi Previn was born on October 8, 1970 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Matt’s cards
Every card is computed from October 8, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Matt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q175535, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Matt Damon at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Matt Damon’s chart
- How old is Matt Damon?
- Matt Damon is 55 years old, born October 8, 1970 in Cambridge, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Matt Damon?
- Matt Damon is a Libra: born October 8, 1970, which puts the Sun in Libra at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
- What is Matt Damon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 8, 1970 birth.
- What time was Matt Damon born?
- 15:22 local time in Cambridge, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Matt Damon's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 15:22 birth time in Cambridge, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Matt Damon?
- Matt Damon is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Matt Damon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 8, 1970 birth date.
- What is Matt Damon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 7°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 8, 1970 birth time.
- Where is Matt Damon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Matt Damon's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
