Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger (born April 14, 1925, Westhampton, United States; died 2002), was an American actor. Steiger's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Silver Bear for Best Actor.
Rod Steiger’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Rod
Rod Steiger’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Rod in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~8,744
Americans share it since 1910
1960
its peak year
The SSA recorded 8 American boys named Rod in 1925: 3,347th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rod’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rod’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
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 1925, 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 Rod apart
The Silver Bear for Best Actor came in 1964, when Rod Steiger was 39.
The schooling ran through West Side High School and HB Studio.
Rod Steiger was 25 when the work began in 1950.
The record gives pneumonia as the cause, and Forest Lawn Memorial Park as the resting place.
Rod Steiger was married Claire Bloom and Joan Benedict Steiger and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Rod Steiger under American expatriates in the Republic of Ireland, Entertainers from Irvington, New Jersey and Child sexual abuse in the United States.
Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977) and Adrien Brody (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- West Side High School, HB Studio and Actors Studio
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (1968), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1967) and Silver Bear for Best Actor (1964)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1950
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
What the chart says
Rod, according to the stars
Core essence
Rod leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Rod is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Rod is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Rod needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Rod wants to be loved
Rod wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Rod creates
How Rod 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. Rod 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: Rod 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Rod is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Rod scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Rod's birth date. Working below.
Where Rod sits
Six lines
Rod’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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.
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 Rod Steiger
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Westhampton 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 Westhampton that night
Computed for 40.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Westhampton was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Westhampton sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 60% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Westhampton, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2002.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Rod Steiger: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Rod's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Rod Steiger's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 14, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Rod Steiger was born on April 14, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Rod Steiger's birth date, April 14, 1925, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Rod’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rod Steiger's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rod Steiger combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Rod’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Capricorn 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
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
Rod’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.8° orb
Rod’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.3° to 2.5° orb
Rod’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileUranus1.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 6.5° to 19.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Rod’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 24°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°06′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 9°33′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°50′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 1.7°
- Eros square Pluto 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.4°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.7°
Rod’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Rod’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 Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 1.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°
More people like Rod
Other actors
- Nicholas Colasanto1924
- Julie Harris1925
- Gabriele Ferzetti1925
- Harry Dean Stanton1926
- Eva Marie Saint1924
- Donald O'Connor1925
Born in United States
- Rod SerlingAmerican screenwriter
- Maxine KuminAmerican poet and author
- Jack LemmonAmerican actor
- Russell BakerAmerican writer and satirist
- Maria TallchiefAmerican ballerina
- Malcolm XAmerican Black rights activist
More charts like Rod’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Reba McEntireAmerican country singer and actress (born 1955)
- Harold NicholasAmerican dancer
- Arthur MitchellAmerican dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem
Born in Ox years
- Lea ThompsonAmerican actress
- Jessica SzohrAmerican actress and model
- Tori SpellingAmerican actress
Also born on April 14
- Sarah Michelle Gellar1977
- Adrien Brody1973
- Abigail Breslin1996
- Georgina Chapman1976
- Rob McElhenney1977
- Chase Young1999
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Yitzhak RabinIsraeli politician, statesman and general
- David GrossAmerican particle physicist and string theorist
- Sully PrudhommeFrench poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901
Other Aries Ox charts
- Koo Bon-neungSouth Korean billionaire (born 1949)
- Jayshree UllalBritish chief executive
- Eddie MurphyAmerican actor and comedian
- Larry PageAmerican computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Bella HadidAmerican model
- Mia WasikowskaAustralian actress
- LudacrisAmerican rapper and actor
- Peter ThielGerman-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jamie DornanNorthern Irish actor
- Jennette McCurdyAmerican writer and former actress
- RuPaulAmerican drag performer, actor, and musician
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Rod’s cards
Computed from April 14, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rod’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273215 (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 Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rod Steiger at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rod Steiger.
Quick answers about Rod Steiger’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Rod Steiger?
- Rod Steiger was an Aries: born April 14, 1925, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Rod Steiger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 14, 1925 birth.
- What was Rod Steiger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Rod Steiger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Rod Steiger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Rod Steiger's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
