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Ryan O'Neal

Ryan O'Neal (born April 20, 1941, Los Angeles, United States; died 2023), was an American actor.

Ryan O'Neal’s zodiac sign was Aries or Taurus (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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

#99

US rank in 2025

~991,747

Americans share it since 1880

1985

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Ryan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

—

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Moonlight white

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

The record

What sets Ryan apart

Jessica Lange (1949) and Miranda Kerr (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Ryan, according to the stars

How Ryan wants to be loved

Ryan wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Ryan is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Ryan creates

How Ryan makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ryan creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Ryan is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ryan is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Ryan goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Ryan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

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Ryan O'Neal in 15 seconds

Aries or Taurus Sun

Ryan O'Neal was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Ryan O'Neal was born on April 20, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Ryan O'Neal's birth date, April 20, 1941, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Ryan’s chart

Ryan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Ryan O'Neal, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.3° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.7° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.7° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 3° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 3° orbSun in Taurus · 0°20′☉0°Moon in Aquarius · 27°22′☽27°Mercury in Aries · 14°25′☿14°Venus in Taurus · 0°44′♀0°Mars in Aquarius · 12°40′♂12°Jupiter in Taurus · 21°38′♃21°Saturn in Taurus · 15°42′♄15°Uranus in Taurus · 24°40′♅24°Neptune in Virgo · 25°27′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 2°02′♇2°

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.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus0.3° to 0.5° orb

    Ryan’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.7° to 1.9° orb

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

  • stableUranustrineNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb

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

  • stableSunsquarePluto1.2° to 2.2° orb

    Ryan’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysextileMars1.2° to 2.3° orb

    Ryan’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.8° to 3.3° orb

    Ryan’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.9° to 3.1° orb

    Ryan’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune3.7° to 3.9° orb

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.9° to 6.0° orb

    Ryan’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed8 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

Ryan’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.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 25°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Ryan is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°10′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Ryan caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 2°42′ (moves 0.77° over the day)

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Ryan wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 0°25′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Ryan is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 4°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Ryan is read as immovable on those points.

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.

  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.3°
  • Eros square Pluto 0.7°
  • Chiron sextile Uranus 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 1.6°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 2.0°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.9°

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°).

Ryan’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. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ryan is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Ryan’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, 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 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.

  • Venus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ryan O'Neal, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Ryan’s family here

One relative of Ryan O'Neal also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Ryan’s cards

Every card is computed from April 20, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Ryan O'Neal, 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

Ryan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272923, 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 Wire photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ryan O'Neal at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Ryan O'Neal.

Quick answers about Ryan O'Neal’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ryan O'Neal?
Ryan O'Neal was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
What was Ryan O'Neal's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1941 birth.
What time was Ryan O'Neal 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.
What was Ryan O'Neal's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 20, 1941 birth date.
What was Ryan O'Neal's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 20, 1941 birth date.
Where was Ryan O'Neal's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ryan O'Neal's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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