Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman (born August 5, 1967, Stanford, United States), aged 59, is an American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author.
Reid Hoffman’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Reid
Reid Hoffman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Reid in the U.S.?
#293
US rank in 2025
~41,783
Americans share it since 1886
2014
its peak year
In 1967, 135 American boys were registered Reid — 643rd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Reid’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Reid’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
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 1967, 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 Reid apart
The schooling ran through The Putney School and Wolfson College.
Erik Selin shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- The Putney School, Wolfson College and Stanford University
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 31
What the chart says
Reid, according to the stars
Core essence
Reid is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Reid is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Reid needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Reid needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Reid wants to be loved
Reid wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Reid and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Reid creates
How Reid makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Reid 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: Reid is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Reid 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Reid 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 Reid's birth date. Working below.
Where Reid sits
Six lines
Reid’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Reid Hoffman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stanford 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 Stanford that night
Computed for 37.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Stanford was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 73.6° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Stanford sits at 37.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −52.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Stanford on any night.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
How unusual Reid's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Reid Hoffman's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 5, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Reid Hoffman was born on August 5, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Reid Hoffman's birth date, August 5, 1967, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Reid’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Reid Hoffman's date-only chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Reid Hoffman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Reid’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Leo 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
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Reid’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoonsquareMars0.1° to 6.9° orb
Reid’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussextileNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Reid’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.0° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.6° to 4.1° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.8° to 4.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.1° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Reid’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°21′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 21°35′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 21°32′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 3°04′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 24°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Neptune 0.0°
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.2°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.7°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.4°
Reid’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Reid’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.4°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.4°
Born the same day as Reid
Erik Selin was born on August 5, 1967 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Stanford, at 37.4°N, nothing below −52.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Reid
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More charts like Reid’s
Fellow Leo suns
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Born in Goat years
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- Taylor HendricksAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Julian PhillipsAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
Also born on August 5
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- Janet McTeer1961
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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- Natasha LyonneAmerican actress
- Letsile TebogoBotswana sprinter
Other Leo Goat charts
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- Bryan CogmanAmerican television screenwriter
- Benny CarterAmerican jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader
- Jens CastropGerman association football player (born 2003)
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
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- Keith RaboisAmerican businessman
- Danny RimerCanadian businessman
- AdeleEnglish singer-songwriter
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Xaver SchlagerAustrian association football player
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- Alejandro ZendejasAmerican soccer player
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Reid’s cards
Computed from August 5, 1967. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Reid’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q211098 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Reid Hoffman.
Quick answers about Reid Hoffman’s chart
- How old is Reid Hoffman?
- Reid Hoffman is 59 years old, born August 5, 1967 in Stanford, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Reid Hoffman?
- Reid Hoffman is a Leo: born August 5, 1967, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Reid Hoffman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 5, 1967 birth.
- What is Reid Hoffman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Reid Hoffman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Reid Hoffman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Reid Hoffman's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
