Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967, Fairport, United States; died 2014), was an American actor. Notable films include Scent of a Woman, The Big Lebowski and Mission: Impossible III. Hoffman's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Award for Best Actor.
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s zodiac sign was Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 8 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
In 1967, 3,786 American boys and 16 girls were registered Philip — 82nd among boys and 3,292nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Philip’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on P (7) and closes on P (7). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
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
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Scarlet
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 1967, 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 Philip apart
Haile Selassie I (1892) and Daniel Radcliffe (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Philip, according to the stars
How Philip wants to be loved
Philip 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 Philip and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Philip 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 Philip 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 Philip's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fairport 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 Fairport that night
Computed for 43.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Fairport was Edasich, in Draco, 73.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Fairport sits at 43.1°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 −46.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 94% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 3° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Fairport, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Philip Seymour Hoffman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Philip's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Cancer or Leo Sun
Philip Seymour Hoffman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Philip Seymour Hoffman was born on July 23, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's birth date, July 23, 1967, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Philip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Philip Seymour Hoffman's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
Philip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableUranussextileNeptune0.0° orb
Philip’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.1° to 0.4° orb
Philip’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.4° to 0.6° orb
Philip’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareMars1.5° to 1.9° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.1° to 3.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.7° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 6.7° to 19.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 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 ℞Pisces 29°39′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 15°39′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 13°03′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 4°29′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 23°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.5°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.7°
Philip’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Philip’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.
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.9°
More people like Philip
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Born in United States
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- Harry Connick Jr.American musician and actor (born 1967)
- Melora HardinAmerican actress
- Leslie JonesAmerican comedian and actress (born 1967)
More charts like Philip’s
Born in Goat years
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Also born on July 23
- Haile Selassie I1892
- Daniel Radcliffe1989
- Woody Harrelson1961
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- Paul Wesley1982
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Brady CookAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Patrick PaulAmerican football player
- Elijah ArroyoAmerican football player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Milly AlcockAustralian actress (born 2000)
- Chase InfinitiAmerican actress (born 2000)
- Baby ArielAmerican social media personality
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Philip’s cards
Computed from July 23, 1967. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Philip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q180560 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Philip Seymour Hoffman 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 Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Quick answers about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Philip Seymour Hoffman?
- Philip Seymour Hoffman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Philip Seymour Hoffman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1967 birth.
- What was Philip Seymour Hoffman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Philip Seymour Hoffman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Philip Seymour Hoffman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Philip Seymour Hoffman's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
