Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze (born August 18, 1952, Houston, United States, 08:10; died 2009), was an American actor, producer, singer and dancer. Swayze is best remembered for Ghost. Swayze's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Patrick Swayze’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Patrick Swayze’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
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Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Patrick, according to the stars
Core essence
Patrick is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Patrick is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Patrick needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Patrick needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Patrick wants to be loved
Patrick wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Patrick and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Patrick creates
How Patrick makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Patrick creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Patrick 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Patrick 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 Patrick's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Patrick Swayze's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Patrick Swayze was born on August 18, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Patrick Swayze's birth date, August 18, 1952, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Patrick’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Patrick Swayze's timed chart: Venus in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Patrick Swayze's timed chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Moon, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Patrick Swayze combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Patrick’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsquareMarsseparating · 0.9° orb
Patrick’s core identity grinds against their drive.
JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 1.2° orb
Patrick’s growth grinds against their depths.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.8° orb
Patrick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 2.9° orb
Patrick’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 3.3° orb
Patrick’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
JupitersextileUranusseparating · 3.5° orb
Patrick’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 3.6° orb
Patrick’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
MercurysextileSaturnapplying · 4.1° orb
Patrick’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
SunconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.2° orb
Patrick’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 4.3° orb
Patrick’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarsoppositionJupiterseparating · 4.5° orb
Patrick’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SaturnsquareUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
Patrick’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 5.3° orb
Patrick’s core identity grinds against their growth.
MercuryconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.4° orb
Patrick’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 7.7° orb
Patrick’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Patrick’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 7°01′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Patrick is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresGemini 8°42′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Patrick feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosLibra 25°20′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Patrick is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°21′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Patrick is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°51′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Patrick is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 0.7°
- Ceres square Venus 1.8°
- Ceres square Ascendant 3.0°
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°).
Patrick’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; rules the Moon sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Patrick is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Patrick’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Moon, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Pluto · Mars, Jupiter, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Moon quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
Patrick’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 12 | Venus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 1 | Saturn, Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 12 | Mars | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Taurus, house 9 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Libra, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 11 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 3 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 1 | Jupiter | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 12 | Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 12 | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Patrick’s cards
Every card is computed from August 18, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49004, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Patrick Swayze 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.
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Quick answers about Patrick Swayze’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Patrick Swayze?
- Patrick Swayze was a Leo: born August 18, 1952, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
- What was Patrick Swayze's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 18, 1952 birth.
- What time was Patrick Swayze born?
- 08:10 local time in Houston, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What was Patrick Swayze's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 08:10 birth time in Houston, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall was Patrick Swayze?
- Patrick Swayze was 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Patrick Swayze's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the August 18, 1952 birth date.
- What was Patrick Swayze's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 7°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 18, 1952 birth time.
- Where was Patrick Swayze's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Patrick Swayze's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; rules the Moon sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
