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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Phoebe
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
The SSA recorded 189 American girls named Phoebe in 1989: 943rd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Phoebe’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on E (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
Phoebe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1989, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Phoebe apart
The record Phoebe Tonkin is measured by: The Vampire Diaries, H₂O: Just Add Water and Home and Away.
Phoebe Tonkin was 17 when the work began in 2006.
Wikipedia files Phoebe Tonkin under The Society Management models, Actresses from Sydney and Australian expatriate actresses in the United States.
Hilary Knight shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- The Vampire Diaries, H₂O: Just Add Water and Home and Away
- Nominated for
- AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama
- Working from
- 2006
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 51
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. Working below.
Where Phoebe sits
Six lines
Phoebe’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Phoebe Tonkin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sydney 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 Sydney that night
Computed for 33.87°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Antares stood nearest the zenith over Sydney at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.5° above the horizon in Scorpius.
The brightest star above the horizon was Canopus in Carina, and 69 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The Moon was at first quarter, 64% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sydney, Australia
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · Sydney
Wikidata records Los Angeles and Sydney as Phoebe Tonkin's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Phoebe Tonkin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Phoebe's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards 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.
What Cancer means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakePrivate by design.
Phoebe Tonkin was born on July 12, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Phoebe Tonkin's birth date, July 12, 1989, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Phoebe’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Phoebe Tonkin's date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Phoebe Tonkin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Phoebe’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Libra or Scorpio 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
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
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.3° to 3.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableVenussquarePluto2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssquarePluto3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus6.6° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.2° to 7.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 9°56′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 7°32′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 2°42′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 9°59′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Phoebe’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
Configurations in Phoebe’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.
- 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°
Born the same day as Phoebe
Hilary Knight was born on July 12, 1989 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 33.9°S, Sydney keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Phoebe
Other actors
- Lily James1989
- Kat Graham1989
- Riley Keough1989
- Sofia Pernas1989
- Ayesha Curry1989
- Danielle Brooks1989
Born in Australia
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- Shanina ShaikAustralian model
- Claire HoltAustralian actress
- Liam HemsworthAustralian actor
- Kevin ParkerAustralian musician
- Cameron JohnstonAustralian player of American football
More charts like Phoebe’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Nick OffermanAmerican actor
- Kellie PicklerAmerican country singer
- Busy PhilippsAmerican actress
Born in Snake years
- Tyler OakleyAmerican YouTuber
- Paul BuchheitAmerican computer engineer; created Gmail
- Cam NewtonAmerican football player
Also born on July 12
- Pablo Neruda1904
- Vinícius Júnior2000
- Tupou VI of Tonga1959
- Hilary Knight1989
- Bill Cosby1937
- Topher Grace1978
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Karl ZieglerGerman chemist
- Erwin NeherGerman biophysicist
- Baruch Samuel BlumbergAmerican physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner
Other Cancer Snake charts
- Perry LopezAmerican actor
- Jacques PerrinFrench actor and film producer
- Chiwetel EjioforBritish actor (born 1977)
- Audrey FleurotFrench actress (1977)
Other Tidal Strategists
- Central CeeBritish rapper
- Megyn KellyAmerican journalist
- Yoshua BengioCanadian computer scientist
- Benny BlancoAmerican pop music producer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Habib DiarraSenegalese footballer (born 2004)
- Zakaria El OuahdiMoroccan soccer player
- RayanBrazilian footballer (born 2006)
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Phoebe’s cards
Computed from July 12, 1989. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Phoebe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185723 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Phoebe Tonkin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
