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Rachel Griffiths

Rachel Griffiths (born December 18, 1968, Melbourne, Australia), aged 57, is an Australian actress. Griffiths's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Member of the Order of Australia and Centenary Medal.

Rachel Griffiths’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Rachel Griffiths’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, 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

Rachel ranked 92nd among girls and 2,692nd among boys in 1968, the year of this birth, with 3,727 American girls and 11 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Rachel’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

9 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

The record

What sets Rachel apart

Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Rachel, according to the stars

Core essence

Rachel is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Rachel is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Rachel wants to be loved

Rachel wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Rachel be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Rachel creates

How Rachel makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Rachel creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Rachel is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Rachel is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Rachel fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Rachel

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rachel

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Rachel

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rachel

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Rachel

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rachel

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Rachel Griffiths

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Melbourne on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Rachel’s birth-night reference starAcamarwhite · EridanusAcamar, in Eridanus. A white star, 83.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Acamar →The warmest lightBetelgeusedeep red · OrionBetelgeuse, in Orion. A deep red star, 24.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Betelgeuse →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Melbourne that night

Computed for 37.81°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Acamar stood nearest the zenith over Melbourne at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.9° above the horizon in Eridanus.

Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

At 37.8°S there are stars that never set at all. Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.

The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.

How unusual Rachel'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.

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Rachel Griffiths at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Rachel Griffiths's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Rachel Griffiths was born on December 18, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Rachel Griffiths's birth date, December 18, 1968, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Rachel’s chart

Rachel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.4° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.6° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Sagittarius · 26°13′☉26°Moon in Sagittarius · 2°14′☽2°Mercury in Capricorn · 2°22′☿2°Venus in Aquarius · 9°35′♀9°Mars in Libra · 23°10′♂23°Jupiter in Libra · 4°20′♃4°Saturn in Aries · 18°42′ · retrograde♄℞18°Uranus in Libra · 3°48′♅3°Neptune in Scorpio · 27°20′♆27°Pluto in Virgo · 25°05′♇25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Rachel’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunsquarePluto0.6° to 1.6° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.6° to 2.2° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter1.2° to 2.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.2° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter4.7° to 5.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus5.2° to 6.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.9° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 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, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 28°53′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 23°06′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 24°60′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 29°20′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 20°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Eros trine Pluto 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.7°
  • Eros square Mars 1.8°
  • Ceres square Pluto 2.0°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 2.3°
  • Chiron square Sun 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.7°

Rachel’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Rachel’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.

  • Venus quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°

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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal

Rachel’s cards

Computed from December 18, 1968. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Rachel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181140 (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 Robert Connolly, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Rachel Griffiths at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Griffiths.

Quick answers about Rachel Griffiths’s chart

How old is Rachel Griffiths?
Rachel Griffiths is 57 years old, born December 18, 1968 in Melbourne, Australia.
What zodiac sign is Rachel Griffiths?
Rachel Griffiths is a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1968, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Rachel Griffiths's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1968 birth.
What is Rachel Griffiths's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Rachel Griffiths's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Rachel Griffiths's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Rachel Griffiths's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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