Ricardo Darín
Ricardo Darín (born January 16, 1957, Buenos Aires, Argentina), aged 69, is an Argentine actor. Darín's honours include Donostia Award, Goya Award for Best Actor and Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Ricardo Darín’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ricardo
Ricardo Darín’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ricardo in the U.S.?
#380
US rank in 2025
~147,169
Americans share it since 1888
1998
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,182 American boys and 8 girls named Ricardo in 1957: 220th among boys and 4,824th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ricardo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ricardo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, 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 Ricardo apart
The Sant Jordi Prize came in 2000, when Ricardo Darín was 43.
Ricardo Darín was 22 when the work began in 1979.
On the family side, Ricardo Darín was born to Roxana Darín and Ricardo Darín, married Florencia Bas and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Ricardo Darín under Argentine people of Syrian descent, Darín family and Illustrious Citizens of Buenos Aires.
Jennie (1996) and Aaliyah (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Donostia Award (2017), Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (2016) and Sant Jordi Prize (2000)
- Nominated for
- Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1979
- Citizenship
- Spain and Argentina
- Languages
- Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 31
What the chart says
Ricardo, according to the stars
Core essence
Ricardo is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ricardo is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Ricardo wants to be loved
Ricardo wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Ricardo you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Ricardo creates
How Ricardo makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ricardo creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Ricardo 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ricardo is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ricardo gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Ricardo's birth date. Working below.
Where Ricardo sits
Six lines
Ricardo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Ricardo Darín
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buenos Aires 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 Buenos Aires that night
Computed for 34.60°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Buenos Aires at 9 p.m. that evening: Acamar of Eridanus, within 12.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Buenos Aires sits at 34.6°S, high enough that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
How unusual Ricardo's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Neptune · 1 unaspected planet
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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Ricardo Darín's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Ricardo Darín was born on January 16, 1957, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Ricardo Darín's birth date, January 16, 1957, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Ricardo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ricardo Darín's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ricardo Darín combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Ricardo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 9° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextileNeptune1.6° to 2.8° orb
Ricardo’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.3° to 3.5° orb
Ricardo’s affections grind against their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
Ricardo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune2.8° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus3.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.1° to 5.4° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.1° to 6.1° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.8° to 6.8° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Ricardo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 10°45′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 14°03′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 13°10′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 21°35′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.2°
- Eros square Saturn 2.3°
Ricardo’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ricardo’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Ricardo’s cards
Computed from January 16, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ricardo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q463860 (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 Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ricardo Darín at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ricardo Darín.
Quick answers about Ricardo Darín’s chart
- How old is Ricardo Darín?
- Ricardo Darín is 69 years old, born January 16, 1957 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- What zodiac sign is Ricardo Darín?
- Ricardo Darín is a Capricorn: born January 16, 1957, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Ricardo Darín's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1957 birth.
- What is Ricardo Darín's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ricardo Darín's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ricardo Darín's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ricardo Darín's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
