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Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey (born November 4, 1969, Uvalde, United States, 19:34), aged 57, is an American actor. Notable films include Interstellar, The Wolf of Wall Street and Contact. McConaughey's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Awards and Saturn Awards.

Matthew McConaughey’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Matthew McConaughey’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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

Of the names registered in 1969, Matthew came 24th among boys and 1,380th among girls, carried by 17,462 American boys and 70 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Matthew’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

22 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1969, 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

Matthew McConaughey took the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor in 2013, at 44.

The classrooms behind this chart: Moody College of Communication and Longview High School.

The working life starts in 1991, at 22.

Matthew McConaughey was married Camila Alves and raised 2 children.

The same date carries Sean Combs. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Moody College of Communication, Longview High School and Gorokan High School
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actor (2014), Golden Globe Awards (2014) and Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor (2013)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1991
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
93

What the chart says

Matthew, according to the stars

Core essence

Matthew does not do surface. The core of Matthew 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 Matthew is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Matthew is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Matthew needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Matthew creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Matthew is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Matthew is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Matthew

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

PrivateExpressive
Matthew

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Matthew

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

PracticalVisionary
Matthew

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Matthew

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Uvalde at 19:34, Matthew McConaughey’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Uvalde that night

Computed for 29.21°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Uvalde was Aljanah, in Cygnus, 75.2° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.

From 29.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Acrux and Toliman cannot be seen from Uvalde at all: they sit past the −60.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon down and 25% lit at waning crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Uvalde, United States
Lives in
Austin

Wikidata records Austin as Matthew McConaughey's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

Against Uvalde, Shared Places reads Austin as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 89th of 162 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Brasília, Brazil, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Matthew's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Strategist 天機 in 子

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 6/2

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Mars · No Fire 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.

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Matthew McConaughey in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Matthew McConaughey's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Matthew McConaughey was born on November 4, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 22

Big blueprint, real hands.

Matthew McConaughey's birth date, November 4, 1969, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Matthew’s chart

Matthew’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 opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.7° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.4° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.6° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.7° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 5.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 12°28′ · house 6☉12°Moon in Virgo · 13°01′ · house 4☽13°Mercury in Scorpio · 5°34′ · house 6☿5°Venus in Libra · 22°58′ · house 5♀22°Mars in Aquarius · 0°12′ · house 9♂0°Jupiter in Libra · 22°02′ · house 5♃22°Saturn in Taurus · 4°54′ · house 12 · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Libra · 6°43′ · house 5♅6°Neptune in Scorpio · 27°51′ · house 6♆27°Pluto in Virgo · 26°34′ · house 4♇26°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCGem 12°33′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSgr 12°33′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAqr 25°34′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLeo 25°34′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsextileMoonseparating · 0.5° orb

    Matthew’s core identity opens doors for their feelings.

  • MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 0.7° orb

    Matthew’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • VenusconjunctionJupiterseparating · 0.9° orb

    Matthew’s affections and growth act as one.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb

  • MarssextileNeptuneseparating · 2.4° orb

  • MarstrinePlutoseparating · 3.6° orb

  • MarssquareSaturnapplying · 4.7° orb

  • MercurysquareMarsseparating · 5.4° orb

  • MarstrineUranusapplying · 6.5° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 6.9° orb

  • SunoppositionSaturnseparating · 7.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°02′ · House 11

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 3°45′ · House 9

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 29°01′ · House 4

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 11°09′ · House 1

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 26°18′ · House 2

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.1°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.2°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Ascendant 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.5°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.8°
  • Hygiea square Moon 1.9°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 2.5°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.8°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 3.0°

Matthew’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury11 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Moon, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Matthew’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Mercury, Saturn, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.8°

Matthew’s houses

Matthew’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 6emptyself, body, how you arrive
2CancerMoon in Virgo, house 4emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3LeoSun in Scorpio, house 6emptymind, siblings, the local world
4VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 6Moon, Plutohome, family, roots
5LibraVenus in Libra, house 5Venus, Jupiter, Uranuscreativity, romance, play
6ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 4Sun, Mercury, Neptunework, habits, health
7SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 5emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 12emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AquariusUranus in Libra, house 5Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11AriesMars in Aquarius, house 9emptyfriends, community, the future
12TaurusVenus in Libra, house 5Saturnthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Matthew’s family here

One relative of Matthew McConaughey also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Matthew

Sean Combs was born on November 4, 1969 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 29.2°N, the sky above Uvalde stops at −60.8° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Matthew’s cards

Computed from November 4, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Matthew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q188955 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Matthew McConaughey.

Quick answers about Matthew McConaughey’s chart

How old is Matthew McConaughey?
Matthew McConaughey is 57 years old, born November 4, 1969 in Uvalde, United States.
What zodiac sign is Matthew McConaughey?
Matthew McConaughey is a Scorpio: born November 4, 1969, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What is Matthew McConaughey's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1969 birth.
What time was Matthew McConaughey born?
19:34 local time in Uvalde, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Matthew McConaughey's rising sign?
Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 19:34 birth time in Uvalde, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Matthew McConaughey's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What is Matthew McConaughey's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 3°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Matthew McConaughey's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 26°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Matthew McConaughey's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; disposes Moon, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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