Rachel Bilson
Rachel Bilson (born August 25, 1981, Los Angeles, United States, 07:56), aged 45, is an American actress. Notable films include How I Met Your Mother, The O.C. and Chuck.
Rachel Bilson’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Rachel
Rachel Bilson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rachel in the U.S.?
#250
US rank in 2025
~575,748
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
In 1981, 12,590 American girls and 50 boys were registered Rachel — 22nd among girls and 1,324th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rachel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rachel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Rachel apart
The schooling ran through Grossmont College and São Tomé and Príncipe.
Rachel Bilson was 17 when the work began in 1998.
Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Grossmont College and São Tomé and Príncipe
- Working from
- 1998
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
What the chart says
Rachel, according to the stars
Core essence
Rachel notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Rachel is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Rachel is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Rachel needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Rachel wants to be loved
Rachel wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Rachel gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Rachel creates
How Rachel makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Rachel creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Rachel is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Rachel 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Rachel does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Rachel's birth date. Working below.
Where Rachel sits
Six lines
Rachel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Rachel Bilson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Los Angeles at 07:56, Rachel Bilson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Los Angeles was Elnath, in Taurus, 84.3° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.
Sun -19° below the horizon, Moon up and 18% lit at waning crescent.
What Rachel's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Charmer 貪狼 in 辰
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart
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.
Score your own chart →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Rachel Bilson's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What Virgo means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Rachel Bilson was born on August 25, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Rachel Bilson's birth date, August 25, 1981, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Rachel’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Rachel Bilson's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Mercury in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Rachel Bilson's timed chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Rachel Bilson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Rachel’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.3° orb
Rachel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenusconjunctionSaturnseparating · 0.4° orb
Rachel’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarstrineUranusapplying · 1.0° orb
Rachel’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonsquareJupiterseparating · 1.6° orb
VenusconjunctionJupiterapplying · 2.0° orb
JupiterconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.5° orb
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 2.9° orb
MoonsquareVenusseparating · 3.6° orb
MoonsquareSaturnseparating · 4.1° orb
MoonsextileMercuryapplying · 4.5° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 5.6° orb
SunsquareUranusseparating · 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Rachel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°52′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 12°59′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 12°57′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°10′ · House 11
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 26°38′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.4°
- Eros sextile Moon 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Moon 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Ascendant 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.4°
- Chiron trine Ascendant 1.7°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.4°
Rachel’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Rachel’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.7°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.8°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.2°
Rachel’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 1 | Sun, Mercury | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Libra, house 2 | Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 2 | Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 2 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Libra, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 3 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 4 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 11 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Libra, house 2 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 1 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 11 | Moon, Mars | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 1 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Also born on August 25
- Tim Burton1958
- Claudia Schiffer1970
- Blake Lively1987
- Alexander Skarsgård1976
- Salif Keita1949
- Hussain Al Jassmi1979
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Tim AllenAmerican actor and comedian
- Kevin DillonAmerican actor
- Gary Merrillfilm and television character actor from the United States
Other Virgo Rooster charts
- Boyd HolbrookAmerican actor and former model
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- Elia KazanAmerican director and actor
- Irène Joliot-CurieFrench chemist and physicist
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Jim MurrayAmerican journalist
- Winfred RembertAmerican artist
- Henry S. TaylorAmerican poet
- Roman AninMoldovan investigative journalist
Other Virgo risings with documented times
- Paul McCartneyEnglish musician and member of the Beatles
- Emma WatsonEnglish actress
- Justin Trudeau23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025
- Tom HanksAmerican actor and film producer
Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Rachel’s cards
Computed from August 25, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rachel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q220949 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Anjaagnieszka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rachel Bilson at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rachel Bilson.
Quick answers about Rachel Bilson’s chart
- How old is Rachel Bilson?
- Rachel Bilson is 45 years old, born August 25, 1981 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Rachel Bilson?
- Rachel Bilson is a Virgo: born August 25, 1981, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
- What is Rachel Bilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1981 birth.
- What time was Rachel Bilson born?
- 07:56 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Rachel Bilson's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 07:56 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Rachel Bilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rachel Bilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rachel Bilson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 26°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rachel Bilson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
