Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936, Chicago, United States), aged 89, is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Kaufman's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Saturn Award for Best Director and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director.
Philip Kaufman’s zodiac sign is Libra or Scorpio (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Fire Rat, with 
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How common is the name Philip in the U.S.?
#528
US rank in 2025
~345,173
Americans share it since 1880
1953
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Philip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Philip, according to the stars
How Philip creates
How Philip 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. Philip 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: Philip is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Philip 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Philip channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Philip's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Libra or Scorpio Sun
Philip Kaufman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Libra into Scorpio. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Philip Kaufman was born on October 23, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Philip Kaufman's birth date, October 23, 1936, 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 Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip Kaufman's date-only chart is Mars opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Philip Kaufman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Philip’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunsquarePluto0.9° to 1.9° orb
Philip’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.0° to 1.6° orb
Philip’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrinePluto1.2° to 2.5° orb
Philip’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
Philip’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
Philip’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.9° to 5.4° orb
Philip’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.4° to 5.6° orb
Philip’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Philip’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 23°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Philip turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 13°03′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Philip is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosScorpio 21°39′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Philip is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°15′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Philip is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Philip is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.0°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.5°
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°).
Philip’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Philip is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Philip’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Philip Kaufman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Philip’s cards
Every card is computed from October 23, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Philip Kaufman, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q176126, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip Kaufman at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Philip Kaufman’s chart
- How old is Philip Kaufman?
- Philip Kaufman is 89 years old, born October 23, 1936 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Philip Kaufman?
- Philip Kaufman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Libra into Scorpio. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- What is Philip Kaufman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 23, 1936 birth.
- What time was Philip Kaufman born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Philip Kaufman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the October 23, 1936 birth date.
- What is Philip Kaufman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 23, 1936 birth date.
- Where is Philip Kaufman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Philip Kaufman's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
