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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman (born Natalie Herschlag; June 9, 1981, Jerusalem), aged 45, is an Israeli-American actress. Notable films include V for Vendetta, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Avengers: Endgame. Portman's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Natalie Portman’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Natalie Portman’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#89

US rank in 2025

~379,831

Americans share it since 1880

2006

its peak year

Natalie ranked 60th among girls and 2,176th among boys in 1981, the year of this birth, with 4,858 American girls and 24 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Natalie’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Natalie Herschlag, not the name they published under.

8

Expression · direction and scale

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on N (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Natalie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1981, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Natalie apart

Natalie Portman took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture in 2005, at 24.

The classrooms behind this chart: Syosset High School and Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.

The working life starts in 1993, at 12.

The family line: born to Avner Hershlag, married Benjamin Millepied and raised 2 children.

Wikipedia's editors put Natalie Portman under Actresses from Jerusalem and American women activists.

Johnny Depp (1963) and Michael J. Fox (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Syosset High School, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actress (2011), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama (2011) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (2011)
Nominated for
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Empire Award for Best Actress
Working from
1993
Citizenship
United States and Israel
Languages
English, American English and Hebrew
Wikipedia editions
136

What the chart says

Natalie, according to the stars

Core essence

Natalie is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Natalie needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Natalie 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 Natalie needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Natalie wants to be loved

Natalie wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Natalie gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Natalie creates

How Natalie makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Natalie creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Natalie 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Natalie is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

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

Computed from Natalie's birth date. Working below.

Where Natalie sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Natalie

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Natalie

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

PrivateExpressive
Natalie

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Natalie

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Natalie

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Natalie

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

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

Natalie’s birth-night reference starIzarwarm orange · BoötesIzar, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 84.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Izar →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 25.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over West Jerusalem that night

Computed for 31.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at West Jerusalem was Izar, in Boötes, 84.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.

From 31.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −58.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from West Jerusalem on any night.

Sun 23° below the horizon, Moon up and 53% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born as
Natalie Herschlag
Known as
Natalie Portman
Born in
West Jerusalem, Israel
Lives in
Washington, D.C. · Los Angeles

Wikidata records Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles as Natalie Portman's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Natalie Portman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Natalie's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth planets · A leaning bowl · 1 planet 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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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Natalie Portman's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 9, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Natalie Portman was born on June 9, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Natalie Portman's birth date, June 9, 1981, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Natalie’s chart

Natalie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.1° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.1° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.3° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.3° orbSun in Gemini · 18°28′☉18°Moon in Virgo · 17°44′☽17°Mercury in Cancer · 5°13′ · retrograde☿℞5°Venus in Cancer · 5°04′♀5°Mars in Gemini · 2°59′♂2°Jupiter in Libra · 0°41′♃0°Saturn in Libra · 3°01′♄3°Uranus in Scorpio · 27°15′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Sagittarius · 23°37′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Libra · 21°40′ · retrograde♇℞21°

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

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.0° to 6.5° orb

    Natalie’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Natalie’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Natalie’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.5° to 2.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter2.0° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.3° orb

  • stableSuntrinePluto2.7° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.8° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 20°05′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 9°22′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 5°31′ (moves 0.52° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 25°24′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 18°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Mercury 0.3°
  • Eros square Venus 0.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Mars 2.5°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 2.5°

Natalie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Natalie’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Natalie’s family here

One relative of Natalie Portman also has a chart on AsterNym.

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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Natalie’s cards

Computed from June 9, 1981. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Natalie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q37876 (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 Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Natalie Portman at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Natalie Portman.

Quick answers about Natalie Portman’s chart

How old is Natalie Portman?
Natalie Portman is 45 years old, born June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem.
What zodiac sign is Natalie Portman?
Natalie Portman is a Gemini: born June 9, 1981, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Natalie Portman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 9, 1981 birth.
How tall is Natalie Portman?
Natalie Portman is 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Natalie Portman's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Natalie Portman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Natalie Portman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Natalie Portman's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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