Rufus
Rufus (born December 19, 1942, Riom, France), aged 83, is a French actor and comedian. Rufus's honours include Commander of the National Order of Merit and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
Rufus’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Rufus
Rufus’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rufus in the U.S.?
#4019
US rank in 2025
~36,225
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
The SSA recorded 456 American boys and 5 girls named Rufus in 1942: 281st among boys and 5,258th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
Rufus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, 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 Rufus apart
The Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres came in 2013, when Rufus was 71.
Rufus was 25 when the work began in 1967.
Wikipedia files Rufus under Male actors from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, French male writers and People from Riom.
Jake Gyllenhaal (1980) and Alexis Sánchez (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Commander of the National Order of Merit (2022) and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2013)
- Working from
- 1967
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
What the chart says
Rufus, according to the stars
Core essence
Rufus is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Rufus is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Rufus 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 Rufus needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Rufus wants to be loved
Rufus wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Rufus you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Rufus creates
How Rufus makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Rufus creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Rufus is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Rufus is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Rufus has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Rufus's birth date. Working below.
Where Rufus sits
Six lines
Rufus’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Rufus
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Riom 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 Riom that night
Computed for 45.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Riom at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.1° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 45.9°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −44.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Riom on any night.
The Moon, 93% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Rufus's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Mercury
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Rufus's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 19, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Rufus was born on December 19, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Rufus's birth date, December 19, 1942, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Rufus’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rufus' date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.
- Rufus combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Rufus’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Taurus 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
stableMarssextileNeptune0.3° to 1.0° orb
Rufus’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.4° orb
Rufus’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.7° to 1.4° orb
Rufus’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.1° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune2.3° to 3.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune4.4° to 5.9° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.6° to 5.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Rufus’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 29°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 24°07′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 5°16′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 14°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 12°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Venus 0.3°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.3°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.4°
- Eros square Saturn 2.4°
- Eros square Mars 2.6°
- Ceres square Sun 2.8°
Rufus’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
7 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars
Configurations in Rufus’s chart
Yod onto Mercury · Saturn, Pluto, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.0°
More people like Rufus
Other actors
- Amitabh Bachchan1942
- Joe Pesci1943
- Brian Wilson1942
- Klaus Maria Brandauer1943
- Sally Kirkland1941
- Paul Freeman1943
Born in France
- Marc Ladreit de LacharrièreFrench businessman
- Patrick ModianoFrench writer
- Albert FertFrench physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
- Françoise Barré-SinoussiFrench virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
- Pierre-Gilles de GennesFrench physicist
- Jean-Pierre SauvageFrench nanotechnologist
More charts like Rufus’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- AJ JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Nate AmentAmerican basketball player (born 2006)
- Javon SmallAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Born in Horse years
- Michele Morrone AlgoesItalian actor, singer, and fashion designer
- Ross ButlerSingaporean-born American actor
- Andy BiersackAmerican singer
Also born on December 19
- Jake Gyllenhaal1980
- Alexis Sánchez1988
- Alyssa Milano1972
- Abigail Johnson1961
- Maurice White1941
- Ramsey Nouah1970
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Diem BrownAmerican television personality; reality TV star
- Kelsea BalleriniAmerican singer and songwriter
- Lo BosworthAmerican reality television personality
Other Sagittarius Horse charts
- Manny PacquiaoFilipino boxer, basketball player, singer, actor, politician and philanthropist
- Ian SomerhalderAmerican actor
- Katherine HeiglAmerican actress
- PedriSpanish association football player
Other Radiant Seekers
- Rachel ZeglerAmerican actress
- Jack WhiteAmerican musician
- Brittney GrinerAmerican basketball player
- Scott DixonNew Zealand race car driver
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Felix Anudike-UzomahAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Jared GoffAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Chuck ClarkAmerican football player
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Rufus’s cards
Computed from December 19, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rufus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q715111 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rufus at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rufus.
Quick answers about Rufus’s chart
- How old is Rufus?
- Rufus is 83 years old, born December 19, 1942 in Riom, France.
- What zodiac sign is Rufus?
- Rufus is a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1942, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Rufus's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1942 birth.
- What is Rufus's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rufus's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rufus's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rufus's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: 7 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
