Portia de Rossi
Portia de Rossi (born Amanda Lee Rogers; January 31, 1973, Horsham, Australia), aged 53, is an Australian-American actress. Rossi is best known for Ally McBeal. Rossi's honours include Genesis Award, TV Land Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Portia de Rossi’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rat, with 
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Portia de Rossi’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Portia in the U.S.?
#7803
US rank in 2025
~10,635
Americans share it since 1880
1989
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Portia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Portia, according to the stars
Core essence
Portia is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Portia is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Portia wants to be loved
Portia wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Portia you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Portia creates
How Portia 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. Portia 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: Portia 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Portia 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Portia has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Portia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Portia sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Horsham on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Portia de Rossi's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Portia de Rossi was born on January 31, 1973, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Portia de Rossi's birth date, January 31, 1973, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Portia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Portia de Rossi's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Portia de Rossi combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Portia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Portia de Rossi, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.2° to 1.3° orb
Portia’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.3° to 2.1° orb
Portia’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussquareUranus0.4° to 1.6° orb
Portia’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.2° to 1.9° orb
Portia’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileUranus1.2° to 1.9° orb
Portia’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareUranus1.6° to 1.9° orb
Portia’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb
Portia’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
Portia’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb
Portia’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb
Portia’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 4.0° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Portia’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.
⚷ ChironAries 13°30′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Portia may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°24′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Portia is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAries 12°22′ (moves 0.74° 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. Portia is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 18°02′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Portia is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 8°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Portia leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.3°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.9°
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°).
Portia’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. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Portia is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Portia’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.
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Portia de Rossi, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Portia’s family here
One relative of Portia de Rossi also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Portia’s cards
Every card is computed from January 31, 1973, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Portia de Rossi, 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
Portia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q215366, 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 Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Portia de Rossi 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.
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Quick answers about Portia de Rossi’s chart
- How old is Portia de Rossi?
- Portia de Rossi is 53 years old, born January 31, 1973 in Horsham, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Portia de Rossi?
- Portia de Rossi is an Aquarius: born January 31, 1973, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is Portia de Rossi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1973 birth.
- What time was Portia de Rossi 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 Portia de Rossi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 31, 1973 birth date.
- What is Portia de Rossi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 31, 1973 birth date.
- Where is Portia de Rossi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Portia de Rossi's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
