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Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling (born November 12, 1980, London, Ontario, Canada), aged 45, is a Canadian actor. Gosling is best known for Barbie, The Fall Guy and Drive. Gosling's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and India Catalina Awards.

Ryan Gosling’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Ryan Gosling’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#99

US rank in 2025

~991,747

Americans share it since 1906

1985

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1980, Ryan came 15th among boys and 384th among girls, carried by 24,795 American boys and 602 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ryan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

33

Expression · lifting other people

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on R (9) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.

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

Ryan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1980, 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 Ryan apart

What keeps Ryan Gosling in print: The Notebook, Drive and Project Hail Mary.

The classrooms behind this chart: Lester B. Pearson High School and Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School.

The working life starts in 1992, at 12.

On the family side, Ryan Gosling was married Eva Mendes.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Ryan Gosling: Canadian indie rock musicians, Film producers from Ontario and Best Supporting Actor AACTA International Award winners.

Grace Kelly (1929) and Anne Hathaway (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
The Notebook, Drive and Project Hail Mary
Educated at
Lester B. Pearson High School, Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School and Gladstone Public School
Instruments
piano, guitar, cello and bass guitar
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (2017)
Nominated for
Actor Awards and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1992
Citizenship
Canada
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
90

What the chart says

Ryan, according to the stars

Core essence

Ryan does not do surface. The core of Ryan is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Ryan is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Ryan is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Ryan needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Ryan wants to be loved

Ryan wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Ryan gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Ryan creates

How Ryan makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ryan creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Ryan is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ryan 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Ryan has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Ryan's birth date. Working below.

Where Ryan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ryan

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ryan

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

PrivateExpressive
Ryan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ryan

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

PracticalVisionary
Ryan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ryan

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 Ryan Gosling

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

Computed for 42.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 76.0° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −47.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.

Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 24% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Ryan's chart is

Chart pattern score

83 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Libra · A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Scorpio

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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Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

Ryan Gosling's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 12, 1980, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Ryan Gosling was born on November 12, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Ryan Gosling's birth date, November 12, 1980, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Ryan’s chart

Ryan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 1.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.7° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5.1° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 6.7° orbSun in Scorpio · 20°29′☉20°Moon in Capricorn · 15°00′☽15°Mercury in Scorpio · 3°59′☿3°Venus in Libra · 16°05′♀16°Mars in Sagittarius · 22°57′♂22°Jupiter in Libra · 3°03′♃3°Saturn in Libra · 6°05′♄6°Uranus in Scorpio · 25°32′♅25°Neptune in Sagittarius · 21°14′♆21°Pluto in Libra · 22°49′♇22°

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.
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

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

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

  • stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.8° orb

    Ryan’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.4° to 2.1° orb

    Ryan’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus4.6° to 5.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.1° to 7.3° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 1.5° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.7° to 15.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 4.2° to 16.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 4.6° to 5.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 15°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 26°47′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 3°32′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 0°45′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 24°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.0°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.3°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 2.6°

Ryan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Ryan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°

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Ryan’s cards

Computed from November 12, 1980. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ryan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193815 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ryan Gosling at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Ryan Gosling.

Quick answers about Ryan Gosling’s chart

How old is Ryan Gosling?
Ryan Gosling is 45 years old, born November 12, 1980 in London, Ontario, Canada.
What zodiac sign is Ryan Gosling?
Ryan Gosling is a Scorpio: born November 12, 1980, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Ryan Gosling's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 12, 1980 birth.
How tall is Ryan Gosling?
Ryan Gosling is 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Ryan Gosling's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Ryan Gosling's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ryan Gosling's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ryan Gosling's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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