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Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe (born April 7, 1964, Wellington, New Zealand), aged 62, is a New Zealand actor. Notable films include Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind and Man of Steel. Crowe's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.

Russell Crowe’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Russell Crowe’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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

In 1964, 6,238 American boys and 25 girls were registered Russell — 58th among boys and 2,519th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Russell’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as 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

4 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern

White · Crimson · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, 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

Jackie Chan (1954) and MacKenzie Scott (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
Australia and New Zealand
Languages
English

What the chart says

Russell, according to the stars

Core essence

Russell leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Russell is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Russell needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Russell needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Russell wants to be loved

Russell wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Russell like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Russell creates

How Russell 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. Russell 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: Russell is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Russell is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Russell

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Russell

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

PrivateExpressive
Russell

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Russell

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

PracticalVisionary
Russell

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Russell

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Russell Crowe

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

Computed for 41.29°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wellington was Suhail, in Vela, 83.2° up.

Of the 79 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Wellington sits at 41.3°S, high enough that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon down and 30% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Russell's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

2 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Venus

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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The quick version

Aries Sun

Starts the thing. Then plans it.

Russell Crowe's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 7, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Wood Dragon

Sets the standard, then raises it.

Russell Crowe was born on April 7, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Russell Crowe's birth date, April 7, 1964, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Russell’s chart

Russell’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.7° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.7° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.6° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.7° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 4.1° orbSun in Aries · 17°12′☉17°Moon in Aquarius · 7°03′☽7°Mercury in Taurus · 6°20′☿6°Venus in Gemini · 2°54′♀2°Mars in Aries · 6°37′♂6°Jupiter in Aries · 28°44′♃28°Saturn in Pisces · 1°25′♄1°Uranus in Virgo · 6°29′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Scorpio · 17°14′ · retrograde♆℞17°Pluto in Virgo · 12°06′ · retrograde♇℞12°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMoonsquareMercury0.0° to 6.5° orb

    Russell’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Russell’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb

    Russell’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars3.6° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto5.2° to 6.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter7.2° to 8.0° orb

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 16°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°22′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 6°38′ (moves 0.80° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°57′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 9°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Uranus 0.1°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 1.0°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.1°
  • Ceres square Mars 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.8°

Russell’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Russell’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mars, JupiterThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Saturn, Uranus, VenusAn 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.

  • Sun quincunx Neptune 0.0°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.8°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.9°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°

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Russell’s cards

Computed from April 7, 1964. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Russell’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q129817 (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 Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Russell Crowe at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Crowe.

Quick answers about Russell Crowe’s chart

How old is Russell Crowe?
Russell Crowe is 62 years old, born April 7, 1964 in Wellington, New Zealand.
What zodiac sign is Russell Crowe?
Russell Crowe is an Aries: born April 7, 1964, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Russell Crowe's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 7, 1964 birth.
How tall is Russell Crowe?
Russell Crowe is 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Russell Crowe's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Russell Crowe's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Russell Crowe's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Russell Crowe's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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