Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt (born January 27, 1969, Portsmouth, United States), aged 57, is an American actor and comedian. Oswalt's honours include Grammy Awards, Emmy Award and Critics' Choice Television Award.
Patton Oswalt’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Patton
Patton Oswalt’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Patton in the U.S.?
#3291
US rank in 2025
~1,763
Americans share it since 1915
2015
its peak year
In 1969, 6 American boys were registered Patton — 4,290th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Patton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on P (7) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Patton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1968, 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 Patton apart
Patton Oswalt was taught at Broad Run High School and College of William & Mary.
Patton Oswalt was 19 when the work began in 1988.
The family line: married Meredith Salenger and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read College of William & Mary alumni, Actual play performers and American comics writers.
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Broad Run High School and College of William & Mary
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1988
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Patton, according to the stars
Core essence
Patton is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Patton is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Patton wants to be loved
Patton 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 Patton, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Patton creates
How Patton makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Patton creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Patton is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Patton is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Patton 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 Patton's birth date. Working below.
Where Patton sits
Six lines
Patton’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Patton Oswalt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth that night
Computed for 36.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Elnath stood nearest the zenith over Portsmouth at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.7° above the horizon in Taurus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Portsmouth sits at 36.8°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 −53.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 75% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
How unusual Patton's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Patton Oswalt's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Patton Oswalt was born on January 27, 1969, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Patton Oswalt's birth date, January 27, 1969, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Patton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Patton Oswalt's date-only chart is Venus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto.
- Patton Oswalt combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Patton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.8° orb
Patton’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoontrineUranus0.1° to 6.3° orb
Patton’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.1° to 2.1° orb
Patton’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.7° to 5.4° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.8° to 5.9° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Patton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°26′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°59′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 7°55′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 24°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.4°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.5°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.9°
Patton’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Patton’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°
More people like Patton
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- Judd Apatow1967
- Johnathon Schaech1969
- Margaret Cho1968
- David Auburn1969
- Eric Bana1968
- Ty Franck1969
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- Jonathan TahGerman footballer (born 1996)
- Tyler AdamsAmerican soccer player (born 1999)
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Born in Monkey years
- Willem EinthovenDutch physiologist
- Nicolaas BloembergenDutch-born American physicist
- Willard LibbyAmerican physical chemist
Also born on January 27
- Rosamund Pike1979
- Alan Cumming1965
- Mike Patton1968
- Georgina Rodríguez1994
- Liu Wen1988
- Jake Pavelka1978
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Kenan ThompsonAmerican comedian and actor (born 1978)
- Max ThieriotAmerican actor
- Mike VrabelAmerican football player and coach (born 1975)
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
- Mia FarrowAmerican actress
- Chris IveryAmerican record producer
- Beverley MitchellAmerican actress
- Daniel ModerAmerican cinematographer
Other Tidal Scholars
- Ernst RuskaGerman physicist
- Isidor Isaac RabiAmerican physicist
- Hugh David PolitzerAmerican physicist
- F. Sherwood RowlandAmerican chemist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Dylan McDermottAmerican actor
- Jason MrazAmerican singer-songwriter
- Josh LucasAmerican actor (born 1971)
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Patton’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Patton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q374065 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Patton Oswalt.
Quick answers about Patton Oswalt’s chart
- How old is Patton Oswalt?
- Patton Oswalt is 57 years old, born January 27, 1969 in Portsmouth, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Patton Oswalt?
- Patton Oswalt is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1969, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Patton Oswalt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1969 birth.
- What is Patton Oswalt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Patton Oswalt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Patton Oswalt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Patton Oswalt's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
