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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Horse, with 
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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.?
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~575,748
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
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Rachel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Rachel McAdams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Gemini or Cancer 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.
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
Rachel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareSaturn1.0° to 1.7° orb
Rachel’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.1° to 2.8° orb
Rachel’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.7° to 3.2° orb
Rachel’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.2° to 5.1° orb
Rachel’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.5° orb
Rachel’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.5° orb
Rachel’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.5° to 6.2° orb
Rachel’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.1° orb
Rachel’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 6°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Rachel building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°45′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Rachel caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosScorpio 8°60′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Rachel is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 14°05′ (moves 0.36° 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. Rachel is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Rachel is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Rachel is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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.
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 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-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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rachel McAdams, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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More charts like Rachel’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Tonka HemingwayAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Chigozie AnusiemAmerican football player
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Born in Horse years
- Itamar FrancoBrazilian politician
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- 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)
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Omar RekikDutch-Tunisian association football player
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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
Every card is computed from November 17, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Rachel McAdams, 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 Q190386, 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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rachel McAdams 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
- 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 time was Rachel McAdams 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 McAdams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 17, 1978 birth date.
- What is Rachel McAdams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 17, 1978 birth date.
- 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.
