Matthew Rhys
Matthew Rhys (born November 8, 1974, Cardiff, United Kingdom), aged 51, is a Welsh actor. Rhys's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Matthew Rhys’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Tiger, with 
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Matthew Rhys’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.
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Matthew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
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The record
What sets Matthew apart
Alain Delon (1935) and Gordon Ramsay (1966) 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 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.
How Matthew wants to be loved
Matthew 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 Matthew even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 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 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Matthew runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Matthew's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Matthew sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Matthew Rhys in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Matthew Rhys's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 8, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Matthew Rhys was born on November 8, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Matthew Rhys's birth date, November 8, 1974, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Matthew’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Matthew Rhys' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Matthew Rhys combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Matthew’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Matthew Rhys, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.1° to 0.8° orb
Matthew’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
Matthew’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.6° orb
Matthew’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.4° orb
Matthew’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.9° to 2.6° orb
Matthew’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.0° to 3.3° orb
Matthew’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.6° to 3.7° orb
Matthew’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.3° to 13.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Matthew’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 21°09′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Matthew may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 2°02′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Matthew is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCancer 6°26′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Matthew is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 29°25′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Matthew feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 20°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Matthew at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Eros trine Mars 1.1°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros square Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.3°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.5°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.8°
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°).
Matthew’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Matthew is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Matthew’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Matthew Rhys, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Matthew’s family here
One relative of Matthew Rhys also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Matthew’s cards
Every card is computed from November 8, 1974, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Matthew Rhys, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Matthew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q342784, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Icla, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Matthew Rhys at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Matthew Rhys.
Quick answers about Matthew Rhys’s chart
- How old is Matthew Rhys?
- Matthew Rhys is 51 years old, born November 8, 1974 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Matthew Rhys?
- Matthew Rhys is a Scorpio: born November 8, 1974, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger.
- What is Matthew Rhys's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 8, 1974 birth.
- What time was Matthew Rhys born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Matthew Rhys's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the November 8, 1974 birth date.
- What is Matthew Rhys's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 8, 1974 birth date.
- Where is Matthew Rhys's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Matthew Rhys's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
