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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom (born January 13, 1977, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 09:15), aged 49, is an English actor and model. Notable films include The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Bloom's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor.

Orlando Bloom’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Orlando Bloom’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Visionary

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#873

US rank in 2025

~49,696

Americans share it since 1880

1987

its peak year

In 1977, 688 American boys and 12 girls were registered Orlando — 281st among boys and 5,437th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Orlando’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on O (6) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

Orlando’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

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 1976, 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 Orlando apart

The Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor came in 2005, when Orlando Bloom was 28.

The schooling ran through St Edmund's School and Fine Arts College.

Orlando Bloom was 17 when the work began in 1994.

Orlando Bloom was born to Harry Bloom, married Miranda Kerr and raised 2 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read Actors from Canterbury, British Nichiren Buddhists and Converts to Buddhism from Anglicanism.

Liam Hemsworth (1990) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
St Edmund's School, Fine Arts College and British American Drama Academy
Awards
Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor (2005) and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2014)
Nominated for
Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor
Working from
1994
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
96

What the chart says

Orlando, according to the stars

Core essence

Orlando is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Orlando is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Orlando feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Orlando needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Orlando wants to be loved

Orlando 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 Orlando, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Orlando creates

How Orlando makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Orlando creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Orlando is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Orlando is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Orlando does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Orlando's birth date. Working below.

Where Orlando sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Orlando

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Orlando

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

PrivateExpressive
Orlando

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Orlando

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

PracticalVisionary
Orlando

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Orlando

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Canterbury at 09:15, Orlando Bloom’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Canterbury that night

Computed for 51.28°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Canterbury was Rastaban, in Draco, 83.8° up.

Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 51.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Canterbury at all: they sit past the −38.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun -8° below the horizon, Moon up and 44% lit at last quarter.

What Orlando's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Purple Star 紫微, The Breaker 破軍 in 未

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 3/5

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 1 unaspected planet · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn Sun

Dry wit, dead serious.

Orlando Bloom's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Orlando Bloom was born on January 13, 1977, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Orlando Bloom's birth date, January 13, 1977, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Orlando’s chart

Orlando’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 0° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.5° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.9° orbSun in Capricorn · 23°05′ · house 12☉23°Moon in Scorpio · 0°18′ · house 10☽0°Mercury in Capricorn · 8°16′ · house 12 · retrograde☿℞8°Venus in Pisces · 9°44′ · house 2♀9°Mars in Capricorn · 9°17′ · house 12♂9°Jupiter in Taurus · 21°11′ · house 4 · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Leo · 15°01′ · house 7 · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Scorpio · 11°18′ · house 10♅11°Neptune in Sagittarius · 15°04′ · house 11♆15°Pluto in Libra · 14°11′ · house 9♇14°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCAqr 21°41′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCLeo 21°41′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSgr 13°56′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICGem 13°56′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 0.0° orb

    Orlando’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • VenussextileMarsseparating · 0.4° orb

    Orlando’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • SaturnsextilePlutoapplying · 0.8° orb

    Orlando’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.9° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsseparating · 1.0° orb

  • MercurysextileVenusseparating · 1.5° orb

  • VenustrineUranusapplying · 1.6° orb

  • SuntrineJupiterseparating · 1.9° orb

  • MarssextileUranusapplying · 2.0° orb

  • MercurysextileUranusseparating · 3.0° orb

  • SaturnsquareUranusapplying · 3.7° orb

  • MarssquarePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb

  • VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 5.3° orb

  • MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 5.9° orb

  • JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 6.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 27°19′ · House 3

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 8°33′ · House 9

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 20°46′ · House 10

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°00′ · House 8

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°53′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.2°
  • Ceres square Mercury 0.3°
  • Eros opposition Jupiter 0.4°
  • Ceres square Mars 0.7°
  • Eros square Ascendant 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 2.1°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 2.8°
  • Chiron opposition Moon 3.0°

Orlando’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn12.5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Orlando’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quintile Uranus 0.2°
  • Moon semi-square Neptune 0.2°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 0.3°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.7°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°

Orlando’s houses

Orlando’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 10emptyself, body, how you arrive
2PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 11Venusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3AriesMars in Capricorn, house 12emptymind, siblings, the local world
4TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 2Jupiterhome, family, roots
5GeminiMercury in Capricorn, house 12emptycreativity, romance, play
6CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 10emptywork, habits, health
7LeoSun in Capricorn, house 12Saturnpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8VirgoMercury in Capricorn, house 12emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9LibraVenus in Pisces, house 2Plutobelief, travel, higher learning
10ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 9Moon, Uranuscareer, reputation, public life
11SagittariusJupiter in Taurus, house 4Neptunefriends, community, the future
12CapricornSaturn in Leo, house 7Sun, Mercury, Marsthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Orlando’s family here

One relative of Orlando Bloom also has a chart on AsterNym.

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Orlando’s cards

Computed from January 13, 1977. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Orlando’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44467 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Orlando Bloom 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 Orlando Bloom.

Quick answers about Orlando Bloom’s chart

How old is Orlando Bloom?
Orlando Bloom is 49 years old, born January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Orlando Bloom?
Orlando Bloom is a Capricorn: born January 13, 1977, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What is Orlando Bloom's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 13, 1977 birth.
What time was Orlando Bloom born?
09:15 local time in Canterbury, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Orlando Bloom's rising sign?
Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 09:15 birth time in Canterbury, United Kingdom (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Orlando Bloom's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Orlando Bloom's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Orlando Bloom's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Orlando Bloom's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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