Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais (born June 25, 1961, Reading, United Kingdom), aged 65, is a British comedian. Notable films include Night at the Museum, Stardust and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Gervais's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Writers Guild of America Award and Richard Dawkins Award.
Ricky Gervais’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ricky
Ricky Gervais’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 Ricky in the U.S.?
#949
US rank in 2025
~225,089
Americans share it since 1925
1958
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1961, Ricky came 44th among boys and 1,461st among girls, carried by 10,027 American boys and 59 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ricky’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ricky’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
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 Ricky apart
George Orwell (1903) and George Michael (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Ricky, according to the stars
Core essence
Ricky feels the room before entering it. The core of Ricky is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Ricky, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Ricky feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Ricky needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Ricky wants to be loved
Ricky wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Ricky is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Ricky creates
How Ricky makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ricky creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Ricky 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 3 is the creative. Ricky 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Ricky fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Ricky's birth date. Working below.
Where Ricky sits
Six lines
Ricky’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 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 Ricky Gervais
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Reading 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 Reading that night
Computed for 51.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Reading at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° 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 waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -2° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Reading, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- New York City · Marlow
Wikidata records New York City and Marlow as Ricky Gervais'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 Ricky Gervais: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ricky's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Jupiter · Yod onto Jupiter · T-square onto Uranus
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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Ricky Gervais's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 25, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Ricky Gervais was born on June 25, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Ricky Gervais's birth date, June 25, 1961, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Ricky’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ricky Gervais' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.
- Ricky Gervais 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.
Ricky’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Scorpio 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
stableMercurysextilePluto0.5° to 1.1° orb
Ricky’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.7° to 2.2° orb
Ricky’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunsextilePluto1.8° to 2.7° orb
Ricky’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.4° to 3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.0° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.5° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Ricky’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 8°34′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 5°02′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 19°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.1°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.7°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 1.3°
- Eros trine Sun 1.4°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.6°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.9°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.9°
Ricky’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ricky’s chart
Yod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Pluto, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Jupiter · Sun, Pluto, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.1°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
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More charts like Ricky’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Dominique RobinsonAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Evan McPhersonAmerican football placekicker
- Derek BarnettAmerican football player
Born in Ox years
- Chloë Grace MoretzAmerican actress
- StromaeBelgian singer and songwriter
- Josh ShapiroAmerican politician (born 1973)
Also born on June 25
- George Orwell1903
- George Michael1963
- Anthony Bourdain1956
- Alexei Abrikosov1928
- Dikembe Mutombo1966
- Mckenna Grace2006
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Alicia KeysAmerican singer-songwriter and pianist
- Steven WeinbergAmerican theoretical physicist
- Sanae TakaichiJapanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan since 2025
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Margaret EdsonAmerican playwright
- Elizabeth KolbertAmerican journalist and author
- Vance TrimbleAmerican journalist
- Stephanie WelshAmerican photographer and midwife
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Walton GogginsAmerican actor
- Hande ErçelTurkish actor and fashion model
- Minka KellyAmerican actress
- Glen PowellAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Whindersson NunesBrazilian YouTuber, comedian and singer
- ChunkzBritish YouTuber
- Michelle KhareAmerican YouTuber
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Ricky’s cards
Computed from June 25, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ricky’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23517 (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 Thomas Atilla Lewis at https://www.flickr.com/people/51761894@N00, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ricky Gervais at Wikipedia, rickygervais.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ricky Gervais.
Quick answers about Ricky Gervais’s chart
- How old is Ricky Gervais?
- Ricky Gervais is 65 years old, born June 25, 1961 in Reading, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ricky Gervais?
- Ricky Gervais is a Cancer: born June 25, 1961, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Ricky Gervais's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 25, 1961 birth.
- What is Ricky Gervais's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ricky Gervais's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ricky Gervais's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ricky Gervais's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
