Rufus Sewell
Rufus Sewell (born October 29, 1967, Hammersmith, United Kingdom), aged 58, is an English actor (born 1967). Sewell is best known for Blinky Bill the Movie. Sewell's honours include Theatre World Award and Laurence Olivier Awards.
Rufus Sewell’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Goat, with 
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Rufus Sewell’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Rufus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Crimson · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Rufus apart
Beth Chapman shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Rufus, according to the stars
Core essence
Rufus does not do surface. The core of Rufus is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Rufus is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Rufus is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Rufus needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Rufus wants to be loved
Rufus wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Rufus and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Rufus 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Rufus does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Rufus's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Rufus Sewell's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Rufus Sewell was born on October 29, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Rufus Sewell's birth date, October 29, 1967, 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 Rufus’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rufus Sewell's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rufus Sewell combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Rufus’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Rufus Sewell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Virgo 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.
stableSunsextileMars0.5° to 0.8° orb
Rufus’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Rufus’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareSaturn1.9° to 2.8° orb
Rufus’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto2.3° to 3.2° orb
Rufus’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.8° to 3.5° orb
Rufus’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb
Rufus’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussextileNeptune3.7° to 4.6° orb
Rufus’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussextileNeptune3.9° orb
Rufus’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.3° orb
Rufus’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.8° to 14.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Rufus’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 25°57′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Rufus absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLibra or Virgo during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Rufus is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosCancer 24°31′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Rufus is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 15°05′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Rufus is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 4°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Rufus is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.6°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.7°
- Eros sextile Uranus 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°).
Rufus’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. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Rufus is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Rufus’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.- Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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-square Uranus 0.2°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rufus Sewell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Rufus
Beth Chapman was born on October 29, 1967 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Rufus’s cards
Every card is computed from October 29, 1967, 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 Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Rufus Sewell, 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
Rufus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299217, 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 Scott Garfitt, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rufus Sewell at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Rufus Sewell’s chart
- How old is Rufus Sewell?
- Rufus Sewell is 58 years old, born October 29, 1967 in Hammersmith, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Rufus Sewell?
- Rufus Sewell is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1967, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
- What is Rufus Sewell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1967 birth.
- What time was Rufus Sewell 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 is Rufus Sewell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 29, 1967 birth date.
- What is Rufus Sewell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 29, 1967 birth date.
- Where is Rufus Sewell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rufus Sewell's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
