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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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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.
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Rod’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Rod sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Rod Steiger, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Rod’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.3° to 2.6° orb
Rod’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb
Rod’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.9° to 4.8° orb
Rod’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 7.3° orb
Rod’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 24°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Rod may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°06′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
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. Rod is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAries 9°33′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Rod is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°50′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Rod is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Rod guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Rod’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Rod is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Rod’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rod Steiger, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Ox years
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Rod’s cards
Every card is computed from April 14, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Rod Steiger, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Rod’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273215, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rod Steiger at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- 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 time was Rod Steiger born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Rod Steiger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the April 14, 1925 birth date.
- What was Rod Steiger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 14, 1925 birth date.
- 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.
