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Rutger Hauer

Rutger Hauer (born January 23, 1944, Breukelen, Netherlands; died 2019), was a Dutch actor. Hauer's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion and Golden Calf Culture Prize.

Rutger Hauer’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Rutger Hauer’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Rutger in the U.S.?

#13513

US rank in 2025

~274

Americans share it since 1987

1993

its peak year

Rutger is in US records from 1987, but 1944 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1993.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Rutger’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

8

Soul Urge · achievement

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Rutger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Rutger apart

The Golden Calf for Best Actor came in 1981, when Rutger Hauer was 37.

Rutger Hauer was 25 when the work began in 1969.

The family line: born to Teunke Mellema and Arend Hauer, married Heidi Merz and Ineke ten Cate and raised one child.

Wikipedia files Rutger Hauer under Male actors from Amsterdam, Dutch male film actors and Guinness advertising.

Hideki Yukawa (1907) and Doutzen Kroes (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Golden Calf for Best Actor (1981), Golden Calf Culture Prize (2008) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Television Film (1988)
Working from
1969
Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
English and Dutch
Wikipedia editions
69

What the chart says

Rutger, according to the stars

Core essence

Rutger is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Rutger is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Rutger wants to be loved

Rutger wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Rutger and watch them fall for you again.

How Rutger creates

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

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Rutger is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Rutger scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Rutger's birth date. Working below.

Where Rutger sits

Six lines

Rutger’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Rutger

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rutger

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

PrivateExpressive
Rutger

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rutger

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

PracticalVisionary
Rutger

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rutger

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Rutger Hauer

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Breukelen on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Rutger’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 80.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 29.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Breukelen that night

Computed for 52.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Breukelen was Capella, in Auriga, 80.4° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 109 catalog stars above the horizon.

Breukelen sits at 52.2°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −37.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Breukelen on any night.

The Moon, 5% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Breukelen, Netherlands

The death is recorded at Beetsterzwaag, Opsterland in 2019.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Rutger Hauer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Rutger's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · No Water 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.

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Rutger Hauer in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Rutger Hauer's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 23, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Rutger Hauer was born on January 23, 1944, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Rutger Hauer's birth date, January 23, 1944, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Rutger’s chart

Rutger’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.2° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.8° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.9° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.7° orbSun in Aquarius · 2°20′☉2°Moon in Capricorn · 2°09′☽2°Mercury in Capricorn · 9°25′☿9°Venus in Sagittarius · 24°20′♀24°Mars in Gemini · 5°55′♂5°Jupiter in Leo · 24°33′ · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Gemini · 20°24′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Gemini · 5°00′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Libra · 4°10′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Leo · 7°43′ · retrograde♇℞7°

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

  • stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Rutger’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Rutger’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune0.8° orb

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

  • stableSuntrineNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto1.7° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.2° to 3.2° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.7° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars3.2° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 15°18′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 25°31′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 16°06′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 5°40′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 27°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Ceres opposition Venus 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.8°

Rutger’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Rutger’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Mars, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.7°

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Rutger’s cards

Computed from January 23, 1944. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Rutger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q213574 (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 DWDD, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Rutger Hauer 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 Rutger Hauer.

Quick answers about Rutger Hauer’s chart

What zodiac sign was Rutger Hauer?
Rutger Hauer was an Aquarius: born January 23, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Rutger Hauer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 23, 1944 birth.
How tall was Rutger Hauer?
Rutger Hauer was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Rutger Hauer's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Rutger Hauer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Rutger Hauer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Rutger Hauer's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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