Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936, Chicago, United States), aged 90, 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), Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Philip
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
Of the names registered in 1936, Philip came 63rd among boys and 2,127th among girls, carried by 3,033 American boys and 15 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Philip’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on P (7) and closes on P (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Philip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Philip apart
Pelé (1940) and Paul Kagame (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
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The sky over Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 73.5° above the horizon in Pegasus.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 56% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 34° down.
How unusual Philip's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
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
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.9° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.4° to 5.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 23°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 13°03′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 21°39′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°15′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Philip’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Philip’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Philip’s cards
Computed from October 23, 1936. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q176126 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Philip Kaufman.
Quick answers about Philip Kaufman’s chart
- How old is Philip Kaufman?
- Philip Kaufman is 90 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.
- 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 is Philip Kaufman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Philip Kaufman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
