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Ryan Phillippe

Ryan Phillippe (born September 10, 1974, New Castle, United States), aged 52, is an American actor. Notable films include Crash, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Cruel Intentions.

Ryan Phillippe’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Ryan Phillippe’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, 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 1974, Ryan came 25th among boys and 983rd among girls, carried by 13,179 American boys and 125 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ryan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

6

Soul Urge · being needed

11

Personality · perceptive

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

4 · 1 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green

The record

What sets Ryan apart

The working life starts in 1992, at 18.

Ryan Phillippe was married Reese Witherspoon and raised 2 children.

Jack Ma (1964) and Colin Firth (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Working from
1992
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Ryan, according to the stars

Core essence

Ryan notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Ryan is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Ryan wants to be loved

Ryan wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Ryan and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Ryan creates

How Ryan makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Ryan builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Ryan is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Ryan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ryan channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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

PrivateExpressive
Ryan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ryan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Ryan

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ryan

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ryan Phillippe

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

Ryan’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 82.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 13.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over New Castle that night

Computed for 39.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over New Castle at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 39.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at last quarter, 33% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.

How unusual Ryan's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

3-planet stellium in Virgo

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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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Ryan Phillippe's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Wood Tiger

Leads by moving.

Ryan Phillippe was born on September 10, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Ryan Phillippe's birth date, September 10, 1974, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 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 25° to 9° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.4° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 3.9° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.2° orbSun in Virgo · 17°34′☉17°Moon in Cancer · 2°32′☽2°Mercury in Libra · 6°54′☿6°Venus in Virgo · 2°45′♀2°Mars in Virgo · 28°37′♂28°Jupiter in Pisces · 12°15′ · retrograde♃℞12°Saturn in Cancer · 16°37′♄16°Uranus in Libra · 25°41′♅25°Neptune in Sagittarius · 6°59′♆6°Pluto in Libra · 5°57′♇5°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Ryan’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.2° to 1.7° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.5° to 1.4° orb

    Ryan’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn4.3° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter4.8° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.0° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 6.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed0 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 23°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 6°03′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 3°50′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 8°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 13°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Neptune 0.9°
  • Eros square Venus 1.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Eros trine Pluto 2.1°

Ryan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Ryan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.

  • Mars quintile Saturn 0.0°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 1.1°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°

Ryan’s family here

2 relatives of Ryan Phillippe also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Ryan’s cards

Computed from September 10, 1974. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

4 · Architect

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ryan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273136 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ryan Phillippe 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 Ryan Phillippe.

Quick answers about Ryan Phillippe’s chart

How old is Ryan Phillippe?
Ryan Phillippe is 52 years old, born September 10, 1974 in New Castle, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ryan Phillippe?
Ryan Phillippe is a Virgo: born September 10, 1974, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Ryan Phillippe's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1974 birth.
What is Ryan Phillippe's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Ryan Phillippe's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ryan Phillippe's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ryan Phillippe's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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