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Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen (born October 17, 1974, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom), aged 52, is an English actor. Macfadyen's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Matthew Macfadyen’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Matthew Macfadyen’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Diplomat

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#32

US rank in 2025

~1,659,655

Americans share it since 1880

1983

its peak year

The SSA recorded 27,194 American boys and 108 girls named Matthew in 1974: 9th among boys and 1,088th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Matthew’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on W (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Matthew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1974, 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 Matthew apart

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series came in 2022, when Matthew Macfadyen was 48.

Matthew Macfadyen was taught at Oakham School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Matthew Macfadyen was 21 when the work began in 1995.

On the family side, Matthew Macfadyen was born to Meinir Macfadyen and Martin Macfadyen, married Keeley Hawes and raised 2 children.

Wikipedia files Matthew Macfadyen under People educated at Oakham School, Actors from Great Yarmouth and Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners.

Eminem (1972) and Arthur Miller (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Oakham School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2023), Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2023) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2022)
Nominated for
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
Working from
1995
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
41

What the chart says

Matthew, according to the stars

Core essence

Matthew makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Matthew 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, Matthew feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Matthew needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Matthew wants to be loved

Matthew wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Matthew gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Matthew creates

How Matthew makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Matthew 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: Matthew is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Matthew is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

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. Matthew fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Matthew's birth date. Working below.

Where Matthew sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Matthew

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Matthew

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

PrivateExpressive
Matthew

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Matthew

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Matthew

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Matthew

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Matthew Macfadyen

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Great Yarmouth on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Matthew’s birth-night reference starAlderaminwhite · CepheusAlderamin, in Cepheus. A white star, 79.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alderamin →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 24.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Great Yarmouth that night

Computed for 52.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alderamin stood nearest the zenith over Great Yarmouth at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.2° above the horizon in Cepheus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 52.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 28° below the horizon, Moon down and 7% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Matthew's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

5-planet stellium in Libra · No Earth planets

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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Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

Matthew Macfadyen's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Tiger

Leads by moving.

Matthew Macfadyen was born on October 17, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Matthew Macfadyen's birth date, October 17, 1974, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Matthew’s chart

Matthew’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Saturn · Trine, 0° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.7° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 4° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.2° orbSun in Libra · 23°42′☉23°Moon in Scorpio · 18°44′☽18°Mercury in Scorpio · 9°45′ · retrograde☿℞9°Venus in Libra · 18°34′♀18°Mars in Libra · 22°45′♂22°Jupiter in Pisces · 8°29′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Cancer · 18°43′♄18°Uranus in Libra · 27°51′♅27°Neptune in Sagittarius · 7°45′♆7°Pluto in Libra · 7°21′♇7°

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

  • stableMoontrineSaturn0.0° to 6.8° orb

    Matthew’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Matthew’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.8° to 1.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.0° to 1.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.7° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn3.7° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars3.9° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.8° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 22°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 1°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 24°48′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 3°42′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 17°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Mars 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.9°
  • Eros trine Sun 1.1°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 1.6°
  • Eros trine Mars 2.1°

Matthew’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Matthew’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.

  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Neptune 0.9°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.1°

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Matthew’s cards

Computed from October 17, 1974. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Matthew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q314954 (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 Tomaholic, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Matthew Macfadyen 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 Matthew Macfadyen.

Quick answers about Matthew Macfadyen’s chart

How old is Matthew Macfadyen?
Matthew Macfadyen is 52 years old, born October 17, 1974 in Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Matthew Macfadyen?
Matthew Macfadyen is a Libra: born October 17, 1974, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Matthew Macfadyen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1974 birth.
What is Matthew Macfadyen's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Matthew Macfadyen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Matthew Macfadyen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Matthew Macfadyen's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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