Matthew Stafford
Matthew Stafford (born February 7, 1988, Tampa, United States), aged 38, is an American football player (born 1988). Stafford has played for Los Angeles Rams.
Matthew Stafford’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Matthew
Matthew Stafford’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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 1988, Matthew came 3rd among boys and 743rd among girls, carried by 45,876 American boys and 253 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Matthew’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on W (5).
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
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1988, 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
Training came by way of University of Georgia.
The working life starts in 2009, at 21.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Matthew Stafford: Highland Park High School (University Park, Texas) alumni, People from Dunwoody, Georgia and Players of American football from DeKalb County, Georgia.
Tawakkol Karman (1979) and Ashton Kutcher (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Georgia
- Working from
- 2009
- Sport
- American football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 17
What the chart says
Matthew, according to the stars
Core essence
Matthew is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Matthew is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Matthew cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Matthew needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Matthew wants to be loved
Matthew wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Matthew, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Matthew creates
How Matthew makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Matthew creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Matthew is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Matthew is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Matthew 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 Matthew's birth date. Working below.
Where Matthew sits
Six lines
Matthew’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Matthew Stafford
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tampa 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 Tampa that night
Computed for 27.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Tampa at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 27.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −62.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Acrux were never visible from Tampa on any night.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 78% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
How unusual Matthew's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Matthew Stafford's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 7, 1988, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Matthew Stafford was born on February 7, 1988, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Matthew Stafford's birth date, February 7, 1988, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Matthew’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Matthew Stafford's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Matthew Stafford combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Matthew’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb
Matthew’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.4° to 1.5° orb
Matthew’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.1° to 2.2° orb
Matthew’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareUranus1.3° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.8° to 2.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.0° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.1° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Matthew’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 23°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 14°14′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 23°53′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 8°51′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.3°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.1°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.0°
Matthew’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Matthew’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.9°
More people like Matthew
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- Aaron Rodgers1983
- Bryan Anger1988
- Nick Folk1984
- Jordan Rodgers1988
- Joe Flacco1985
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More charts like Matthew’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
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- Bella PoarchFilipino-American singer and social media personality
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Born in Rabbit years
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- Ja MorantAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
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Also born on February 7
- Tawakkol Karman1979
- Ashton Kutcher1978
- Chris Rock1965
- James Spader1960
- Jacksepticeye1990
- Omotola Jalade Ekeinde1978
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Zara LarssonSwedish singer-songwriter
- Sharon TateAmerican actress and model
- Josh BrolinAmerican actor
Other Aquarius Rabbit charts
- Ronald ColmanBritish actor
- Andrey ZvyagintsevRussian film director, screenwriter and actor (born 1964)
- Toshihide MaskawaJapanese theoretical physicist
- Seán MacBrideIrish politician and human rights activist
Other Tidal Scholars
- Sundar PichaiIndian-American business executive, CEO of Google LLC & Alphabet Inc
- America FerreraAmerican actress
- Daniel RicciardoAustralian racing driver
- Jennifer CoolidgeAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Edna St. Vincent MillayAmerican poet
- Daniel De LuceAmerican journalist
- James T. BerrymanAmerican political cartoonist
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Matthew’s cards
Computed from February 7, 1988. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Matthew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q889130 (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 Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Matthew Stafford at Wikipedia and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Matthew Stafford.
Quick answers about Matthew Stafford’s chart
- How old is Matthew Stafford?
- Matthew Stafford is 38 years old, born February 7, 1988 in Tampa, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Matthew Stafford?
- Matthew Stafford is an Aquarius: born February 7, 1988, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Matthew Stafford's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 7, 1988 birth.
- How tall is Matthew Stafford?
- Matthew Stafford is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Matthew Stafford's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Matthew Stafford's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Matthew Stafford's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Matthew Stafford's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
