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, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Patrick
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
Patrick ranked 37th among boys and 1,849th among girls in 1952, the year of this birth, with 9,175 American boys and 30 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Patrick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on P (7) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
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
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 1952, 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
Edward Norton (1969) and Andy Samberg (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Sport
- taekwondo
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
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. Working below.
Where Patrick sits
Six lines
Patrick’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Patrick Swayze
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Houston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Houston at 08:10, Patrick Swayze’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Houston that night
Computed for 29.76°N, at the documented birth time.
Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Houston at the birth hour, 79.7° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 29.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −60.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 4% lit at waning crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -16° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Houston, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2009.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Patrick's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Peacemaker 天同 in 卯
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Leo · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Sun
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.
Score your own chart →Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Patrick Swayze's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.
What Leo means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 3.3° orb
JupitersextileUranusseparating · 3.5° orb
MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 3.6° orb
MercurysextileSaturnapplying · 4.1° orb
SunconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.2° orb
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 4.3° orb
MarsoppositionJupiterseparating · 4.5° orb
SaturnsquareUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 5.3° orb
MercuryconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.4° orb
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 7°01′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 8°42′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 25°20′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°21′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°51′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Patrick’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Patrick’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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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One relative of Patrick Swayze also has a chart on AsterNym.
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- Eric IdleBritish comedian, actor and writer (born 1943)
- Rebecca HallEnglish actress and filmmaker (born 1982)
- Lionel BarrymoreAmerican actor, director and screenwriter
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Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Víctor MuñozSpanish association football player (born 2003)
- Gilberto MoraMexican footballer (born 2008)
- Greg Newsome IIAmerican football cornerback
- Devin Bush Jr.American football player (born 1998)
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Patrick’s cards
Computed from August 18, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q49004 (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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Patrick Swayze 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 Swayze.
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.
- 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.
- What was Patrick Swayze's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 7°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
