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Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan (born May 16, 1953, Drogheda, Ireland), aged 73, is an Irish actor. Notable films include GoldenEye, Die Another Day and The World Is Not Enough. Brosnan's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award.

Pierce Brosnan’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Pierce Brosnan’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#505

US rank in 2025

~20,634

Americans share it since 1880

2015

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Pierce’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

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

What the chart says

Pierce, according to the stars

Core essence

Pierce is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Pierce is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Pierce wants to be loved

Pierce wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Pierce creates

How Pierce makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Pierce creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Pierce 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Pierce is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Pierce scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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

Where Pierce sits

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Pierce’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Pierce

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Pierce

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Pierce

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Pierce

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

PracticalVisionary
Pierce

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Pierce

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Pierce Brosnan's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 16, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Water Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Pierce Brosnan was born on May 16, 1953, which falls in a Water 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 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Pierce Brosnan's birth date, May 16, 1953, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Pierce’s chart

Pierce’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Pierce Brosnan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Gemini or Cancer 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 opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.8° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.3° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.1° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 4.2° orbSun in Taurus · 25°16′☉25°Moon in Cancer · 6°24′☽6°Mercury in Taurus · 15°45′☿15°Venus in Aries · 17°32′♀17°Mars in Gemini · 10°32′♂10°Jupiter in Gemini · 1°36′♃1°Saturn in Libra · 21°42′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Cancer · 15°42′♅15°Neptune in Libra · 21°40′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Leo · 20°50′♇20°

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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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.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Pierce’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

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

  • stableVenussquareUranus1.7° to 2.0° orb

    Pierce’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenustrinePluto3.1° to 3.5° orb

    Pierce’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.9° to 4.4° orb

    Pierce’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.9° to 4.3° orb

    Pierce’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 4.9° orb

    Pierce’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto4.1° to 6.1° orb

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

  • stableUranussquareNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb

    Pierce’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.0° to 6.7° orb

    Pierce’s core identity and growth act as one.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

Pierce’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 ℞Capricorn 20°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Pierce is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 3°56′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Pierce is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ♡ ErosAries 11°43′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Pierce is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 12°32′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Pierce needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Pierce exacting with themselves first.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Chiron square Neptune 0.8°
  • Chiron square Saturn 0.9°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.0°

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°).

Pierce’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. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Pierce is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Pierce’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, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Venus, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Venus, Neptune, UranusAn 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.

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.9°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.9°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.8°

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

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Pierce’s cards

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The World

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The Radiant Guardian

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Pierce Brosnan, 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

Pierce’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q81520, 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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Pierce Brosnan at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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 Pierce Brosnan.

Quick answers about Pierce Brosnan’s chart

How old is Pierce Brosnan?
Pierce Brosnan is 73 years old, born May 16, 1953 in Drogheda, Ireland.
What zodiac sign is Pierce Brosnan?
Pierce Brosnan is a Taurus: born May 16, 1953, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
What is Pierce Brosnan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1953 birth.
What time was Pierce Brosnan 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 Pierce Brosnan's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 16, 1953 birth date.
What is Pierce Brosnan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 16, 1953 birth date.
Where is Pierce Brosnan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Pierce Brosnan's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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