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Russell T Davies

Russell T Davies (born April 27, 1963, Swansea, United Kingdom), aged 63, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer. Davies is best known for Doctor Who. Davies's honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form and British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series.

Russell T Davies’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Russell T Davies’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

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) × fixed 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

Russell ranked 57th among boys and 2,532nd among girls in 1963, the year of this birth, with 6,703 American boys and 24 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Russell’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

5

Soul Urge · freedom

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

White · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Russell apart

Lizzo (1988) and Frank Bainimarama (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Russell, according to the stars

Core essence

Russell is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Russell is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Russell wants to be loved

Russell wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Russell creates

How Russell makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Russell creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Russell fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Russell

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Russell

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Russell

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Russell

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Russell

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Russell T Davies

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

Computed for 51.62°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Merak stood nearest the zenith over Swansea at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Swansea sits at 51.6°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −38.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Swansea on any night.

Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon up and 22% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Russell's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Russell T Davies's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 27, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Russell T Davies was born on April 27, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Russell T Davies's birth date, April 27, 1963, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 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 19° to 3° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.6° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.4° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.6° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.6° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.8° orbSun in Taurus · 6°28′☉6°Moon in Gemini · 26°47′☽26°Mercury in Taurus · 26°36′☿26°Venus in Aries · 3°58′♀3°Mars in Leo · 13°53′♂13°Jupiter in Aries · 5°25′♃5°Saturn in Aquarius · 22°01′♄22°Uranus in Virgo · 1°13′ · retrograde♅℞1°Neptune in Scorpio · 14°31′ · retrograde♆℞14°Pluto in Virgo · 9°41′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.4° to 0.8° orb

    Russell’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.0° to 1.9° orb

    Russell’s affections and growth act as one.

  • stableSuntrinePluto2.7° to 3.7° orb

    Russell’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.2° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus4.2° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus4.8° to 5.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.7° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 1.7° to 15.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 3.1° to 16.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 13°43′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 4°50′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 27°58′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 17°25′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 0°46′ (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 sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros trine Mercury 1.4°
  • Ceres trine Sun 1.6°

Russell’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Mars; 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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.6°

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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Russell’s cards

Computed from April 27, 1963. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Russell’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q361981 (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 Tony Hassall from Manchester, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Russell T Davies 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 T Davies.

Quick answers about Russell T Davies’s chart

How old is Russell T Davies?
Russell T Davies is 63 years old, born April 27, 1963 in Swansea, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Russell T Davies?
Russell T Davies is a Taurus: born April 27, 1963, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Russell T Davies's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 27, 1963 birth.
What is Russell T Davies's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Russell T Davies's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Russell T Davies's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Russell T Davies's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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