Russell Brand
Russell Brand (born June 4, 1975, Grays, United Kingdom), aged 51, is an English comedian, actor, and podcaster. Notable films include Hop, Death on the Nile and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Brand's honours include James Joyce Awards.
Russell Brand’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Russell
Russell Brand’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Russell in the U.S.?
#345
US rank in 2025
~361,476
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
The SSA recorded 3,232 American boys and 22 girls named Russell in 1975: 82nd among boys and 3,232nd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Russell’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Russell’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1975, 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 Russell apart
The schooling ran through Drama Centre London and The Hathaway Academy.
Russell Brand was 19 when the work began in 1994.
On the family side, Russell Brand was married Laura Gallacher.
Angelina Jolie 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.
- Educated at
- Drama Centre London, The Hathaway Academy and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 1994
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
What the chart says
Russell, according to the stars
Core essence
Russell is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Russell needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Russell 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 Russell needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Russell wants to be loved
Russell 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. Russell gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Russell creates
How Russell makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Russell 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: Russell is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Russell is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Russell gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Russell's birth date. Working below.
Where Russell sits
Six lines
Russell’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Russell Brand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Orsett Hospital 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 Orsett Hospital that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Orsett Hospital was Alioth, in Ursa Major, 85.4° up.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Orsett Hospital sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Orsett Hospital on any night.
Sun -1° below the horizon, Moon down and 24% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Russell's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth planets
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 →Russell Brand at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Russell Brand's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 4, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Russell Brand was born on June 4, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Russell Brand's birth date, June 4, 1975, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Russell’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Russell Brand's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Russell Brand combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Russell’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Aries 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
stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Russell’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.0° to 0.1° orb
Russell’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 5.7° orb
Russell’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 6.2° orb
stableVenussquareUranus0.3° to 1.4° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.8° to 4.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus6.2° to 6.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.6° to 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Russell’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 26°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 11°57′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 27°24′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 5°50′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 13°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.7°
- Chiron square Venus 1.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.9°
Russell’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Russell’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.0°
Russell’s family here
One relative of Russell Brand also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Russell
Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Orsett Hospital, at 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in United Kingdom
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Born in Rabbit years
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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- Jessica PegulaUS American tennis player
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Other Gemini Rabbit charts
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Other Gilded Explorers
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Russell’s cards
Computed from June 4, 1975. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Russell’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296609 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Russell Brand at Wikipedia, russellbrand.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Russell Brand.
Quick answers about Russell Brand’s chart
- How old is Russell Brand?
- Russell Brand is 51 years old, born June 4, 1975 in Grays, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Russell Brand?
- Russell Brand is a Gemini: born June 4, 1975, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Russell Brand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 4, 1975 birth.
- How tall is Russell Brand?
- Russell Brand is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Russell Brand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Russell Brand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Russell Brand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Russell Brand's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
