Ralph Macchio
Ralph Macchio (born November 4, 1961, Huntington, United States), aged 65, is an American actor. Macchio is best known for The Karate Kid.
Ralph Macchio’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Ralph
Ralph Macchio’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Ralph in the U.S.?
#1048
US rank in 2025
~415,858
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1961, Ralph came 95th among boys and 2,593rd among girls, carried by 4,443 American boys and 23 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ralph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on R (9) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ralph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Ralph apart
What keeps Ralph Macchio in print: The Karate Kid.
The classrooms behind this chart: Half Hollow Hills Central School District.
The working life starts in 1980, at 19.
Ralph Macchio was married Phyllis Fierro and raised one child.
The same date carries Jeff Probst. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- The Karate Kid
- Educated at
- Half Hollow Hills Central School District
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor
- Working from
- 1980
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 42
What the chart says
Ralph, according to the stars
Core essence
Ralph does not do surface. The core of Ralph 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 Ralph is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Ralph wants to be loved
Ralph 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. Ralph gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Ralph creates
How Ralph makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ralph creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Ralph is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ralph is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Ralph runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Ralph's birth date. Working below.
Where Ralph sits
Six lines
Ralph’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Ralph Macchio
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Huntington 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 Huntington that night
Computed for 40.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Huntington was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 78.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Huntington at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 11% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Ralph's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · No Fire planets
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 →Ralph Macchio at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Ralph Macchio's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Ralph Macchio was born on November 4, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Ralph Macchio's birth date, November 4, 1961, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Ralph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ralph Macchio's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Fire signs in this chart.
- Ralph Macchio combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Ralph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.9° orb
Ralph’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.4° to 1.0° orb
Ralph’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 1.4° orb
Ralph’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.6° to 1.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsextilePluto1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn2.0° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.6° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter6.1° to 6.6° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.3° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Ralph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 1°55′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 21°35′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 4°17′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 20°10′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Ceres opposition Mars 1.9°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.8°
Ralph’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ralph’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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 quincunx Uranus 0.0°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
Born the same day as Ralph
Jeff Probst was born on November 4, 1961 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Huntington sits at 40.9°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Ralph
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- M. M. Keeravani1961
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- Richard Mofe Damijo1961
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Born in United States
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More charts like Ralph’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Dickinson W. RichardsAmerican physician, Nobel Prize recipient
- James RothmanAmerican biologist and Nobel laureate
- John O'KeefeAmerican British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Born in Ox years
- Alfie JonesEnglish association football player (born 1997)
- Martin ErlićCroatian association football player
- Aaron Wan-BissakaDR Congo footballer (born 1997)
Also born on November 4
- Matthew McConaughey1969
- Tony Abbott1957
- Achraf Hakimi1998
- Tilda Swinton1960
- Sean Combs1969
- Yiyun Li1972
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Shane WarneAustralian cricketer
- Karlie KlossAmerican fashion model
- Azealia BanksAmerican rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman
Other Scorpio Ox charts
- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-BakerBritish athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- John PopleNobel prize winning British chemist
- Anthony DoerrAmerican writer
- Karl ShapiroAmerican poet and essayist
Other Gilded Architects
- Michael BennetUnited States Senator from Colorado since 2009 (born 1964)
- Bea ArthurAmerican actress and comedienne
- Kris AllenAmerican musician and singer-songwriter
- Nina AgdalDanish model
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Nikita Khrushchevleader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
- Patrícia Campos MelloBrazilian journalist and writer
- Tarana BurkeAmerican civil rights activist
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Ralph’s cards
Computed from November 4, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ralph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73346 (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 John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ralph Macchio at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ralph Macchio.
Quick answers about Ralph Macchio’s chart
- How old is Ralph Macchio?
- Ralph Macchio is 65 years old, born November 4, 1961 in Huntington, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ralph Macchio?
- Ralph Macchio is a Scorpio: born November 4, 1961, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Ralph Macchio's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1961 birth.
- What is Ralph Macchio's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ralph Macchio's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ralph Macchio's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ralph Macchio's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
