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Rudy Pankow

Rudy Pankow (born August 12, 1998, Ketchikan, United States), aged 28, is an American actor.

Rudy Pankow’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Rudy Pankow’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Rudy in the U.S.?

#739

US rank in 2025

~51,402

Americans share it since 1882

1960

its peak year

In 1998, 400 American boys and 13 girls were registered Rudy — 521st among boys and 7,442nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Rudy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

1

Soul Urge · independence

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on R (9) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against analysis.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Rudy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1998, 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 Rudy apart

Rudy Pankow was 19 when the work began in 2017.

On Wikipedia the categories read People from Ketchikan, Alaska, Male actors from Alaska and American male stage actors.

Stefanos Tsitsipas and Auston Trusty shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Working from
2017
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
24

What the chart says

Rudy, according to the stars

Core essence

Rudy is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Rudy is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Rudy runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Rudy needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Rudy wants to be loved

Rudy wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Rudy gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Rudy creates

How Rudy makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Rudy creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Rudy is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Rudy is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Rudy 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 Rudy's birth date. Working below.

Where Rudy sits

Six lines

Rudy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Rudy

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rudy

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Rudy

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rudy

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Rudy

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rudy

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Rudy Pankow

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ketchikan 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 Ketchikan that night

Computed for 55.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ketchikan was Rastaban, in Draco, 81.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

Ketchikan sits at 55.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.7° 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, 69% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -3° down.

How unusual Rudy's chart is

Chart pattern score

50 / 100 · Unusual

T-square onto Saturn · Five planets retrograde · 2 planets 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Rudy Pankow's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 12, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Earth Tiger

Courage before caution.

Rudy Pankow was born on August 12, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 2

Listens first, then decides.

Rudy Pankow's birth date, August 12, 1998, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Rudy’s chart

Rudy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.1° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.2° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.3° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Leo · 19°52′☉19°Moon in Aries · 22°46′☽22°Mercury in Leo · 22°00′ · retrograde☿℞22°Venus in Cancer · 29°16′♀29°Mars in Cancer · 24°49′♂24°Jupiter in Pisces · 27°00′ · retrograde♃℞26°Saturn in Taurus · 3°37′♄3°Uranus in Aquarius · 10°23′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Aquarius · 0°15′ · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Sagittarius · 5°18′ · retrograde♇℞5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.4° to 1.6° orb

    Rudy’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.2° to 3.0° orb

    Rudy’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.6° to 2.9° orb

    Rudy’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.7° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars4.2° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.1° to 5.8° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto5.4° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Rudy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 13°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 4°22′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 26°38′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 0°60′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 26°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Jupiter 0.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 0.7°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 0.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.7°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.4°
  • Eros trine Venus 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.6°
  • Chiron square Uranus 2.9°

Rudy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Rudy’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.7°

Born the same day as Rudy

3 other people here were born on August 12, 1998, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Ketchikan, at 55.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.

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Rudy’s cards

Computed from August 12, 1998. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Rudy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q94993175 (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 רודי פאנקו, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Rudy Pankow at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rudy Pankow.

Quick answers about Rudy Pankow’s chart

How old is Rudy Pankow?
Rudy Pankow is 28 years old, born August 12, 1998 in Ketchikan, United States.
What zodiac sign is Rudy Pankow?
Rudy Pankow is a Leo: born August 12, 1998, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Rudy Pankow's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 12, 1998 birth.
What is Rudy Pankow's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Rudy Pankow's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Rudy Pankow's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Rudy Pankow's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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