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Matt Dillon

Matt Dillon (born February 18, 1964, New Rochelle, United States, 06:05), aged 62, is an American actor. Dillon's honours include Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Donostia Award and MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.

Matt Dillon’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Matt Dillon’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

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

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

#3818

US rank in 2025

~23,892

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Matt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Matt apart

Toni Morrison (1931) and John Travolta (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Matt, according to the stars

Core essence

Matt is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Matt is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Matt is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Matt needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Matt wants to be loved

Matt wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Matt creates

How Matt makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Matt creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Matt is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Matt 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Matt goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Matt's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Matt sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Matt

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Matt

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

PrivateExpressive
Matt

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Matt

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

PracticalVisionary
Matt

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Matt

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

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Matt Dillon at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Matt Dillon's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Wood Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Matt Dillon was born on February 18, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Matt Dillon's birth date, February 18, 1964, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Matt’s chart

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.5° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.6° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.5° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 28°50′ · house 1☉28°Moon in Taurus · 1°22′ · house 4☽1°Mercury in Aquarius · 11°13′ · house 1☿11°Venus in Aries · 9°01′ · house 3♀9°Mars in Aquarius · 28°32′ · house 1♂28°Jupiter in Aries · 17°57′ · house 3♃17°Saturn in Aquarius · 25°58′ · house 1♄25°Uranus in Virgo · 8°25′ · house 8 · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Scorpio · 17°50′ · house 10 · retrograde♆℞17°Pluto in Virgo · 13°18′ · house 8 · retrograde♇℞13°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCAqr 11°52′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCLeo 11°52′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSgr 2°01′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICGem 2°01′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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AscendantAquarius
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 0.3° orb

    Matt’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • MercurysextileVenusseparating · 2.2° orb

    Matt’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SunsextileMoonseparating · 2.5° orb

    Matt’s core identity opens doors for their feelings.

  • MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.6° orb

    Matt’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • MoonsextileMarsseparating · 2.8° orb

    Matt’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • SunconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.9° orb

    Matt’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb

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

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.9° orb

    Matt’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 6.6° orb

    Matt’s mind grinds against their imagination.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 13°30′ · House 2

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Matt absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 23°45′ · House 11

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Matt is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosAries 0°03′ · House 3

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Matt is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 10°06′ · House 4

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Matt is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 3°51′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Matt leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Chiron opposition Pluto 0.2°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.1°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Ascendant 1.8°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.2°

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. 1. ♅ Uranus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Matt is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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 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 quincunx Neptune 0.1°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 2.0°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.1°

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.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 8Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturnself, body, how you arrive
2PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 10emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3AriesMars in Aquarius, house 1Venus, Jupitermind, siblings, the local world
4TaurusVenus in Aries, house 3Moonhome, family, roots
5GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 1emptycreativity, romance, play
6CancerMoon in Taurus, house 4emptywork, habits, health
7LeoSun in Aquarius, house 1emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 1Uranus, Plutoshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9LibraVenus in Aries, house 3emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 8Neptunecareer, reputation, public life
11SagittariusJupiter in Aries, house 3emptyfriends, community, the future
12CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 1emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Matt’s family here

One relative of Matt Dillon also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Matt’s cards

Every card is computed from February 18, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Matt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193070, 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 Matt Dillon (Guadalajara) 4.jpg: Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara derivative work: MyCanon (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Matt Dillon 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 Dillon’s chart

How old is Matt Dillon?
Matt Dillon is 62 years old, born February 18, 1964 in New Rochelle, United States.
What zodiac sign is Matt Dillon?
Matt Dillon is an Aquarius: born February 18, 1964, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
What is Matt Dillon's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 18, 1964 birth.
What time was Matt Dillon born?
06:05 local time in New Rochelle, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Matt Dillon's rising sign?
Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 06:05 birth time in New Rochelle, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Matt Dillon's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 18, 1964 birth date.
What is Matt Dillon's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 13°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 18, 1964 birth time.
Where is Matt Dillon's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 3°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Matt Dillon's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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