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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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 1880

1993

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Rutger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Rutger sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

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. 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 6

Responsible before asked.

Rutger Hauer's birth date, January 23, 1944, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Rutger’s chart

Rutger’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Rutger Hauer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

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

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Rutger’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssextilePluto1.7° to 1.9° orb

    Rutger’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.2° to 3.2° orb

    Rutger’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.7° orb

    Rutger’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSuntrineMars3.2° to 4.0° orb

    Rutger’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.3° to 4.6° orb

    Rutger’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

    Rutger’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb

    Rutger’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

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

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

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

    Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Rutger turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.

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

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Rutger feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

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

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Rutger is read as drawn to people who have built something.

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

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

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Rutger carrying stress in the body until it is named.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Rutger is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

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.

  • 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°

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°).

Rutger’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. 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

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Rutger is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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 Rutger’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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rutger Hauer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Rutger’s cards

Every card is computed from January 23, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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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

No birth time is on public record for Rutger Hauer, 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

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

The same Rutger Hauer at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat.
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.
What time was Rutger Hauer 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.
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 from the January 23, 1944 birth date.
What was Rutger Hauer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 23, 1944 birth date.
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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