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Patrick McGoohan

Patrick McGoohan (born March 19, 1928, Astoria, United States; died 2009), was an Irish-American actor. McGoohan's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series and Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame.

Patrick McGoohan’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Patrick McGoohan’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#235

US rank in 2025

~689,424

Americans share it since 1880

1964

its peak year

The SSA recorded 1,320 American boys and 14 girls named Patrick in 1928: 132nd among boys and 2,478th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Patrick’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

5

Soul Urge · freedom

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on P (7) and closes on K (2).

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

Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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 Patrick apart

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series came in 1975, when Patrick McGoohan was 47.

Patrick McGoohan was taught at Ratcliffe College.

Patrick McGoohan was 20 when the work began in 1948.

Cause of death is recorded as disease.

The family line: raised one child.

Wikipedia files Patrick McGoohan under Irish film directors, Actors from County Leitrim and American emigrants to England.

Bruce Willis (1955) and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Ratcliffe College
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (1975) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (1990)
Working from
1948
Cause of death
disease
Citizenship
United States and Ireland
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
43

What the chart says

Patrick, according to the stars

Core essence

Patrick feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Patrick is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Patrick wants to be loved

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

How Patrick creates

How Patrick 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. Patrick 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: Patrick 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Patrick is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Patrick goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Patrick's birth date. Working below.

Where Patrick sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Patrick

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Patrick

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

PrivateExpressive
Patrick

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Patrick

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Patrick

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Patrick

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Astoria 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 Astoria that night

Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Astoria at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Astoria sits at 40.8°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 −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 5% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Astoria, United States

The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 2009.

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

How unusual Patrick's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Pisces · No Earth planets

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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Pisces Sun

Dreams in full colour.

Patrick McGoohan's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 19, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Earth Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Patrick McGoohan was born on March 19, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Patrick McGoohan's birth date, March 19, 1928, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Patrick’s chart

Patrick’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.6° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.1° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.8° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.8° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.3° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.3° orbSun in Pisces · 28°51′☉28°Moon in Aquarius · 29°48′☽29°Mercury in Pisces · 1°18′☿1°Venus in Pisces · 1°55′♀1°Mars in Aquarius · 15°33′♂15°Jupiter in Aries · 12°14′♃12°Saturn in Sagittarius · 19°04′♄19°Uranus in Aries · 3°06′♅3°Neptune in Leo · 27°00′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Cancer · 15°00′ · retrograde♇℞14°

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

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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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.8° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.6° to 2.9° orb

    Patrick’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter3.0° to 3.6° orb

    Patrick’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.1° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.9° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.3° to 5.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn6.7° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 3.7° to 17.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 3°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 21°28′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 4°33′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 17°05′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 12°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.1°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.6°

Patrick’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Patrick’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.1°
  • Mercury quintile Saturn 0.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 0.5°
  • Venus quintile Saturn 0.9°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 1.9°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°

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Patrick’s cards

Computed from March 19, 1928. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q298908 (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 AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Patrick McGoohan at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Patrick McGoohan.

Quick answers about Patrick McGoohan’s chart

What zodiac sign was Patrick McGoohan?
Patrick McGoohan was a Pisces: born March 19, 1928, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Patrick McGoohan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 19, 1928 birth.
What was Patrick McGoohan's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Patrick McGoohan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Patrick McGoohan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Patrick McGoohan's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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