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Matt Smith

Matt Smith (born October 28, 1982, Northampton, United Kingdom), aged 44, is an English actor. Notable films include Doctor Who, House of the Dragon and Terminator Genisys.

Matt Smith’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Matt Smith’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood 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

Matt ranked 618th in 1982, the year of this birth, with 197 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Matt’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

1

Soul Urge · independence

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.

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

Matt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 3 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Matt apart

Training came by way of Northampton School for Boys and National Youth Theatre.

The working life starts in 2003, at 21.

Bill Gates (1955) and Julia Roberts (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Northampton School for Boys, National Youth Theatre and University of East Anglia
Nominated for
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
Working from
2003
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Matt, according to the stars

Core essence

Matt does not do surface. The core of Matt is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Matt is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Matt 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 Matt 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 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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Matt builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Matt has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Matt's birth date. Working below.

Where Matt sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Matt

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Matt Smith

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

Computed for 52.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Northampton at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 9.2° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 52.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −37.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Northampton on any night.

The Moon, 85% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 38° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Northampton, United Kingdom
Lives in
Northampton

Wikidata records Northampton as Matt Smith'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 Matt Smith: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Matt's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

Matt Smith's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Matt Smith was born on October 28, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Matt Smith's birth date, October 28, 1982, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Matt’s chart

Matt’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.8° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.1° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.4° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.3° orbSun in Scorpio · 4°44′☉4°Moon in Pisces · 14°03′☽14°Mercury in Libra · 20°56′☿20°Venus in Scorpio · 3°04′♀3°Mars in Sagittarius · 27°26′♂27°Jupiter in Scorpio · 17°20′♃17°Saturn in Libra · 26°20′♄26°Uranus in Sagittarius · 3°06′♅3°Neptune in Sagittarius · 25°00′♆25°Pluto in Libra · 27°11′♇27°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableMarssextileSaturn0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Matt’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.8° to 0.9° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus1.5° to 1.8° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 2.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune3.3° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.7° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.3° to 6.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.5° to 7.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.2° to 7.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 26°14′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 13°02′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 17°54′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 1°44′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.9°

Matt’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Matt’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree 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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

Matt’s cards

Computed from October 28, 1982. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Emperor

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Matt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312385 (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 Matt Smith at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Matt Smith.

Quick answers about Matt Smith’s chart

How old is Matt Smith?
Matt Smith is 44 years old, born October 28, 1982 in Northampton, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Matt Smith?
Matt Smith is a Scorpio: born October 28, 1982, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Matt Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1982 birth.
What is Matt Smith's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Matt Smith's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Matt Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Matt Smith's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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