Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams (born November 17, 1978, London, Canada), aged 47, is a Canadian actress. Notable films include Doctor Strange, Sherlock Holmes and Midnight in Paris. McAdams's honours include MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast and Canada's Walk of Fame.
Rachel McAdams’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Rachel
Rachel McAdams’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
Of the names registered in 1978, Rachel came 25th among girls and 1,529th among boys, carried by 9,802 American girls and 38 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rachel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Rachel apart
Martin Scorsese (1942) and Cyril Ramaphosa (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Rachel, according to the stars
Core essence
Rachel does not do surface. The core of Rachel is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Rachel is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Rachel wants to be loved
Rachel wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Rachel even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Rachel creates
How Rachel makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Rachel creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Rachel is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Rachel is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Rachel 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 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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Rachel McAdams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over London that night
Computed for 42.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at London at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 11.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 90% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 43° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, Canada
- Lives in
- Harbord Village
Wikidata records Harbord Village as Rachel McAdams's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Rachel McAdams: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Rachel's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · Venus retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Rachel McAdams at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Rachel McAdams's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 17, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Rachel McAdams was born on November 17, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Rachel McAdams's birth date, November 17, 1978, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Rachel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rachel McAdams' date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rachel McAdams combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Rachel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Rachel’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.3° to 1.1° orb
Rachel’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.6° to 1.0° orb
Rachel’s affections grind against their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn1.0° to 1.7° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.1° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn2.7° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.2° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.5° to 6.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Rachel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 6°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°45′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 8°60′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 14°05′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.4°
Rachel’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Rachel’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
More people like Rachel
Other actors
- Clay Aiken1978
- Gwendoline Christie1978
- Katie Holmes1978
- Elisabetta Canalis1978
- Aaliyah1979
- Matthew Morrison1978
Born in Canada
- Evangeline LillyCanadian actress (born 1979)
- Jason ReitmanCanadian-American film director
- Mike ComrieCanadian ice hockey player
- Gail SimmonsCanadian food writer
- Hayden ChristensenCanadian actor
- Devon SawaCanadian actor
More charts like Rachel’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Tonka HemingwayAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Chigozie AnusiemAmerican football player
- Christian KirkAmerican football player (born 1996)
Born in Horse years
- Itamar FrancoBrazilian politician
- Jensen AcklesAmerican actor
- Margaret CourtAustralian tennis player
Also born on November 17
- Martin Scorsese1942
- Cyril Ramaphosa1952
- Eugene Paul Wigner1902
- Danny DeVito1944
- Sōichirō Honda1906
- Jeff Buckley1966
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Paul CohenAmerican mathematician
- Akshay VenkateshAustralian number theorist
- Grigori PerelmanRussian mathematician (born 1966)
Other Scorpio Horse charts
- Jean ShrimptonBritish model and actress
- Paolo BancheroAmerican basketball player
- Condoleezza RiceAmerican diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)
- Gwendoline ChristieBritish actress (born 1978)
Other Tidal Scholars
- Laura BushFirst Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Justin ChambersAmerican actor and former model
- Linda CardelliniAmerican actress (b. 1975)
- Carrie CoonAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Omar RekikDutch-Tunisian association football player
- Matheus NunesPortuguese footballer (born 1998)
- Emiliano MartínezUruguayan footballer (born 1999)
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Rachel’s cards
Computed from November 17, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rachel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190386 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rachel McAdams 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 McAdams.
Quick answers about Rachel McAdams’s chart
- How old is Rachel McAdams?
- Rachel McAdams is 47 years old, born November 17, 1978 in London, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Rachel McAdams?
- Rachel McAdams is a Scorpio: born November 17, 1978, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Rachel McAdams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1978 birth.
- What is Rachel McAdams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rachel McAdams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rachel McAdams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rachel McAdams's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
