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Phoebe Tonkin

Phoebe Tonkin (born July 12, 1989, Sydney, Australia), aged 37, is an Australian actress. Tonkin is best known for The Vampire Diaries, H₂O: Just Add Water and The Originals.

Phoebe Tonkin’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Phoebe Tonkin’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#157

US rank in 2025

~43,663

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Phoebe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Citrine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia

Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Phoebe, according to the stars

Core essence

Phoebe feels the room before entering it. The core of Phoebe is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Phoebe, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

How Phoebe wants to be loved

Phoebe wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Phoebe openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Phoebe creates

How Phoebe makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Phoebe creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Phoebe is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Phoebe is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Phoebe leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Phoebe fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Phoebe's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Phoebe sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Phoebe

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Phoebe

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Phoebe

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Phoebe

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Phoebe

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Phoebe

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The quick version

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Phoebe Tonkin's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1989, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Earth Snake

Private by design.

Phoebe Tonkin was born on July 12, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Phoebe Tonkin's birth date, July 12, 1989, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Phoebe’s chart

Phoebe’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Phoebe Tonkin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.1° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.4° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Cancer · 19°43′☉19°Moon in Scorpio · 1°25′☽1°Mercury in Cancer · 12°17′☿12°Venus in Leo · 15°31′♀15°Mars in Leo · 15°53′♂15°Jupiter in Gemini · 25°58′♃25°Saturn in Capricorn · 9°55′ · retrograde♄℞9°Uranus in Capricorn · 2°39′ · retrograde♅℞2°Neptune in Capricorn · 10°45′ · retrograde♆℞10°Pluto in Scorpio · 12°24′ · retrograde♇℞12°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Phoebe’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars0.1° to 0.7° orb

    Phoebe’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.5° to 2.6° orb

    Phoebe’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Phoebe’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.3° to 3.5° orb

    Phoebe’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb

    Phoebe’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb

    Phoebe’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.5° to 3.7° orb

    Phoebe’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquarePluto3.2° to 3.8° orb

    Phoebe’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus6.6° to 6.8° orb

    Phoebe’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.2° to 7.3° orb

    Phoebe’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

Phoebe’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.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 9°56′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Phoebe is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 7°32′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Phoebe feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 2°42′ (moves 0.74° over the day)

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Phoebe is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 9°59′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Phoebe is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Phoebe that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

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.

  • Chiron opposition Saturn 0.0°
  • Eros square Uranus 0.0°
  • Chiron opposition Neptune 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.4°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 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°).

Phoebe’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. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Phoebe is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Phoebe’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mars biquintile Saturn 0.0°
  • Venus biquintile Saturn 0.4°
  • Mars biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Phoebe Tonkin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Phoebe

Hilary Knight was born on July 12, 1989 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Phoebe’s cards

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Wheel of Fortune

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The Tidal Strategist

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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☾ Ruled by Moon

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Phoebe Tonkin, 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

Phoebe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185723, 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 Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Phoebe Tonkin at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Phoebe Tonkin.

Quick answers about Phoebe Tonkin’s chart

How old is Phoebe Tonkin?
Phoebe Tonkin is 37 years old, born July 12, 1989 in Sydney, Australia.
What zodiac sign is Phoebe Tonkin?
Phoebe Tonkin is a Cancer: born July 12, 1989, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Snake.
What is Phoebe Tonkin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1989 birth.
What time was Phoebe Tonkin 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.
How tall is Phoebe Tonkin?
Phoebe Tonkin is 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Phoebe Tonkin's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 12, 1989 birth date.
What is Phoebe Tonkin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 12, 1989 birth date.
Where is Phoebe Tonkin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Phoebe Tonkin's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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