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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Rachel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

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

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Rachel sits

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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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.

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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Rachel’s chart

Rachel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Rachel Griffiths, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Mercury in Capricorn · 2°22′Venus in Aquarius · 9°35′Mars in Libra · 23°10′23°Jupiter in Libra · 4°20′Saturn in Aries · 18°42′ · retrograde18°Uranus in Libra · 3°48′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. 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.

  • 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

    Rachel’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.3° orb

    Rachel’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.2° to 4.8° orb

    Rachel’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter4.7° to 5.8° orb

    Rachel’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableVenustrineUranus5.2° to 6.4° orb

    Rachel’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.9° to 6.4° orb

    Rachel’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Rachel absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresSagittarius 23°06′ (moves 0.41° 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. Rachel is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

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

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Rachel is read as drawn to people who have built something.

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

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Rachel needing solitude to reset.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Rachel that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Rachel’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. 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

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Rachel is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 Rachel’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.

  • 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°

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

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Rachel’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hermit

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

yang Earth

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yang Wood

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Water

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Rachel Griffiths, 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

Rachel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181140, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
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 time was Rachel Griffiths 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 Rachel Griffiths's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 18, 1968 birth date.
What is Rachel Griffiths's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 18, 1968 birth date.
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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