Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy (born May 4, 1989, Holywood, United Kingdom), aged 37, is a Northern Irish professional golfer (born 1989). McIlroy has played for European Ryder Cup team. McIlroy's honours include Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year, Member of the Order of the British Empire and BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
Rory McIlroy’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Snake, with 
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Rory McIlroy’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rory in the U.S.?
#199
US rank in 2025
~49,421
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Rory’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Rory apart
Audrey Hepburn (1929) and Fernandinho (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Rory, according to the stars
Core essence
Rory is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Rory is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Rory wants to be loved
Rory 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 Rory is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Rory creates
How Rory makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Rory builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Rory is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Rory is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Rory does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Rory's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Rory sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Rory McIlroy's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 4, 1989, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Snake
Earth SnakePrivate by design.
Rory McIlroy was born on May 4, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Rory McIlroy's birth date, May 4, 1989, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Rory’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rory McIlroy's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, 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.
- Rory McIlroy combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Rory’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Rory McIlroy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Rory’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Rory’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.0° orb
Rory’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.2° to 2.2° orb
Rory’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionUranus1.5° to 2.1° orb
Rory’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
Rory’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
Rory’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.0° to 6.5° orb
Rory’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune7.2° orb
Rory’s need for freedom and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.5° to 7.8° orb
Rory’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Rory’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 3°36′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Rory is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 10°27′ (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. Rory is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLeo 5°57′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Rory loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 20°37′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Rory is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Rory that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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 Mars 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.8°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 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°).
Rory’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Rory is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Rory’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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rory McIlroy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Rory’s cards
Every card is computed from May 4, 1989, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Rory McIlroy, 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
Rory’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q380613, 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 Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Rory McIlroy’s chart
- How old is Rory McIlroy?
- Rory McIlroy is 37 years old, born May 4, 1989 in Holywood, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Rory McIlroy?
- Rory McIlroy is a Taurus: born May 4, 1989, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Snake.
- What is Rory McIlroy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 4, 1989 birth.
- What time was Rory McIlroy 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.
- How tall is Rory McIlroy?
- Rory McIlroy is 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Rory McIlroy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 4, 1989 birth date.
- What is Rory McIlroy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 4, 1989 birth date.
- Where is Rory McIlroy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rory McIlroy's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
