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Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine (born March 22, 1959, Loma Linda, United States), aged 67, is an American actor and filmmaker (born 1959). Modine is best known for This Mortal Coil and The Martini Shot. Modine's honours include Volpi Cup for Best Actor and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Matthew Modine’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Matthew Modine’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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

In 1959, 6,542 American boys and 23 girls were registered Matthew — 63rd among boys and 2,439th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Matthew’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

7

Personality · composed, private

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

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Matthew apart

Reese Witherspoon (1976) and William Shatner (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Matthew, according to the stars

Core essence

Matthew leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Matthew is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Matthew wants to be loved

Matthew wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Matthew is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Matthew 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Matthew scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Matthew

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

PrivateExpressive
Matthew

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Matthew

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

PracticalVisionary
Matthew

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Matthew

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Matthew Modine

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

Matthew’s birth-night reference starAlkaphrahblue-white · Ursa MajorAlkaphrah, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 76.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaphrah →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 22.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Loma Linda that night

Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Loma Linda at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

Loma Linda sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 96% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 36° below the horizon.

How unusual Matthew's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · 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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Matthew Modine at a glance

Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

Matthew Modine's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 22, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Earth Pig

Trusts easily. Rarely regrets it.

Matthew Modine was born on March 22, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Matthew Modine's birth date, March 22, 1959, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 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 27° to 11° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.2° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.3° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.1° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.1° orbSun in Aries · 1°27′☉1°Moon in Virgo · 4°26′☽4°Mercury in Aries · 12°25′ · retrograde☿℞12°Venus in Taurus · 2°20′♀2°Mars in Gemini · 19°48′♂19°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 1°58′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Capricorn · 6°34′♄6°Uranus in Leo · 12°35′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Scorpio · 6°28′ · retrograde♆℞6°Pluto in Virgo · 2°17′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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

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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

  • stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Matthew’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Matthew’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Matthew’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto0.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.6° to 5.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn5.6° to 6.1° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 25°17′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 28°08′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 9°08′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 15°23′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 14°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 3.0°

Matthew’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury

Configurations in Matthew’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Venus, Saturn, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.0°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.4°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°

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Matthew’s cards

Computed from March 22, 1959. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Matthew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318249 (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 Lance Cpl. Pranav Ramakrishna, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Matthew Modine at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Modine.

Quick answers about Matthew Modine’s chart

How old is Matthew Modine?
Matthew Modine is 67 years old, born March 22, 1959 in Loma Linda, United States.
What zodiac sign is Matthew Modine?
Matthew Modine is an Aries: born March 22, 1959, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Matthew Modine's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1959 birth.
What is Matthew Modine's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Matthew Modine's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Matthew Modine's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Matthew Modine's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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