River Phoenix
River Phoenix (born River Jude Bottom; August 23, 1970, Madras, United States, 12:03; died 1993), was an American actor and musician. Notable films include Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Stand by Me and My Own Private Idaho. Phoenix's honours include National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, Volpi Cup for Best Actor and Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
River Phoenix’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
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River Phoenix’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name River in the U.S.?
#111
US rank in 2025
~59,351
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
River’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
River, according to the stars
Core essence
River notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of River is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, River is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What River needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How River wants to be loved
River 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. River gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How River creates
How River makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. River creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: River is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. River 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 River 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 River's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where River sits
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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 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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
River Phoenix's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
River Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
River Phoenix's birth date, August 23, 1970, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in River’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in River Phoenix's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house, Mars in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 1st house, Saturn in the 7th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in River Phoenix's timed chart is Mercury conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- River Phoenix combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
River’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercuryconjunctionPlutoapplying · 0.1° orb
River’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsquareMoonapplying · 0.8° orb
River’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 0.9° orb
River’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
MarssquareSaturnseparating · 0.9° orb
River’s drive grinds against their discipline.
MoonoppositionNeptuneseparating · 1.3° orb
River’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MercurysextileNeptuneapplying · 2.0° orb
River’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.0° orb
River’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 2.1° orb
River’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrinePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb
River’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoontrineMercuryseparating · 3.3° orb
River’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
MercurytrineSaturnseparating · 3.6° orb
River’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 3.7° orb
River’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 4.8° orb
River’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SaturnoppositionNeptuneapplying · 5.7° orb
River’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 6.1° orb
River’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 6.8° orb
River’s core identity and drive act as one.
MoonconjunctionSaturnseparating · 7.0° orb
River’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
River’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 9°40′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: River may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 7°29′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. River is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCapricorn 0°39′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. River is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCancer 25°24′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. River is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 28°48′ · House 10
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. River is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros trine Sun 0.4°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Moon 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.4°
- Ceres opposition Ascendant 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.9°
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°).
River’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Moon, Saturn, Uranus
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: River is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 River’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Moon, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Moon, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Mars · Saturn, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Venus 1.7°
- Moon quincunx Jupiter 1.7°
River’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 11 | Jupiter, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 7 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 10 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Libra, house 12 | Moon, Saturn | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 11 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Taurus, house 7 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 11 | Mars | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 11 | Sun, Mercury, Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Libra, house 12 | Venus, Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Born the same day as River
Jay Mohr was born on August 23, 1970 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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River’s cards
Every card is computed from August 23, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
River’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106514, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Alekassoul, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same River Phoenix 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.
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Quick answers about River Phoenix’s chart
- What zodiac sign was River Phoenix?
- River Phoenix was a Virgo: born August 23, 1970, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- What was River Phoenix's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1970 birth.
- What time was River Phoenix born?
- 12:03 local time in Madras, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was River Phoenix's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 12:03 birth time in Madras, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was River Phoenix's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the August 23, 1970 birth date.
- What was River Phoenix's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 23, 1970 birth time.
- Where was River Phoenix's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 28°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was River Phoenix's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
