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Penn Badgley

Penn Badgley (born November 1, 1986, Baltimore, United States), aged 40, is an American actor and musician. Notable films include Gossip Girl, You and Easy A.

Penn Badgley’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Penn Badgley’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#2706

US rank in 2025

~1,230

Americans share it since 1915

2014

its peak year

Penn ranked 5,766th in 1986, the year of this birth, with 7 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Penn’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

33

Expression · lifting other people

11

Soul Urge · insight

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on P (7) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Penn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

The record

What sets Penn apart

The classrooms behind this chart: St. Christopher's School and Young Actors Space.

The working life starts in 1997, at 11.

The family line: married Domino Kirke and raised one child.

Aishwarya Rai (1973) and Tim Cook (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
St. Christopher's School, Young Actors Space and Lewis & Clark College
Instruments
voice
Working from
1997
Wikipedia editions
50

What the chart says

Penn, according to the stars

Core essence

Penn does not do surface. The core of Penn is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Penn is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Penn wants to be loved

Penn wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Penn even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Penn creates

How Penn makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Penn creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Penn is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Penn is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

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. Penn 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 Penn's birth date. Working below.

Where Penn sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Penn

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Penn

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Penn

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Penn

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

PracticalVisionary
Penn

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Penn

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Penn Badgley

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

Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Baltimore was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 78.0° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 95 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −50.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Baltimore on any night.

The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.

How unusual Penn's chart is

Chart pattern score

75 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · 2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart

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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Penn Badgley at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

Penn Badgley's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 1, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Penn Badgley was born on November 1, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Penn Badgley's birth date, November 1, 1986, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Penn’s chart

Penn’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.9° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.6° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.9° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.1° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.6° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 5° orbSun in Scorpio · 8°59′☉8°Moon in Scorpio · 1°37′☽1°Mercury in Scorpio · 29°08′☿29°Venus in Scorpio · 14°55′ · retrograde♀℞14°Mars in Aquarius · 14°01′♂14°Jupiter in Pisces · 13°03′ · retrograde♃℞13°Saturn in Sagittarius · 8°25′♄8°Uranus in Sagittarius · 20°06′♅20°Neptune in Capricorn · 3°39′♆3°Pluto in Scorpio · 7°22′♇7°

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

  • stableVenussquareMars0.3° to 1.5° orb

    Penn’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto1.1° to 2.1° orb

    Penn’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.6° to 2.2° orb

    Penn’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars4.9° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 6.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto5.7° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto6.4° to 6.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto7.3° to 7.9° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 20°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 9°23′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 10°31′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 2°11′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 27°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Sun 0.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.6°
  • Eros square Sun 1.5°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 2.1°

Penn’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Penn’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°

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Penn’s cards

Computed from November 1, 1986. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Penn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q311750 (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 Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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 Penn Badgley.

Quick answers about Penn Badgley’s chart

How old is Penn Badgley?
Penn Badgley is 40 years old, born November 1, 1986 in Baltimore, United States.
What zodiac sign is Penn Badgley?
Penn Badgley is a Scorpio: born November 1, 1986, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Penn Badgley's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 1, 1986 birth.
What is Penn Badgley's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Penn Badgley's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Penn Badgley's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Penn Badgley's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 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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