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Sean Astin

Sean Astin (born February 25, 1971, Santa Monica, United States), aged 55, is an American actor (born 1971). Astin has served as president. Astin's honours include Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Sean Astin’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Sean Astin’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#489

US rank in 2025

~426,606

Americans share it since 1925

1990

its peak year

In 1971, 10,510 American boys and 77 girls were registered Sean — 36th among boys and 1,386th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Sean’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

7

Soul Urge · understanding

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Sean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Sean apart

George Harrison (1943) and Néstor Kirchner (1950) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Sean, according to the stars

Core essence

Sean feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Sean is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Sean is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Sean needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Sean wants to be loved

Sean wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Sean you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Sean creates

How Sean makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Sean creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Sean is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Sean is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Sean 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 Sean's birth date. Working below.

Where Sean sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Sean

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sean

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

PrivateExpressive
Sean

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sean

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

PracticalVisionary
Sean

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sean

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 Sean Astin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica that night

Computed for 34.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Santa Monica was Castor, in Gemini, 87.7° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Santa Monica sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Santa Monica at all: they sit past the −56.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.

How unusual Sean's chart is

Chart pattern score

37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 unaspected planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Sean Astin at a glance

Pisces Sun

Dreams in full colour.

Sean Astin's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 25, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Sean Astin was born on February 25, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Sean Astin's birth date, February 25, 1971, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Sean’s chart

Sean’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.1° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.4° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.5° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.1° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.5° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 5.6° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 6° orbSun in Pisces · 6°34′☉6°Moon in Pisces · 12°36′☽12°Mercury in Aquarius · 29°07′☿29°Venus in Capricorn · 22°45′♀22°Mars in Sagittarius · 21°04′♂21°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 5°27′♃5°Saturn in Taurus · 17°06′♄17°Uranus in Libra · 12°55′ · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Sagittarius · 3°03′♆3°Pluto in Virgo · 28°57′ · retrograde♇℞28°

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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.7° to 1.6° orb

    Sean’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.4° orb

    Sean’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.1° to 4.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn5.1° to 6.2° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto5.6° to 6.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury7.1° to 7.8° orb

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 14.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 1.2° to 15.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 7°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 7°52′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 0°38′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 6°08′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 19°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.7°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.5°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 1.7°
  • Eros trine Neptune 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.4°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.5°

Sean’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

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

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Sean’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
  • Sun quintile Saturn 1.5°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.7°

Sean’s family here

One relative of Sean Astin also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Famous people with Life Path 9

  • Dario FoItalian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist
  • Rodney Robert PorterEnglish biochemist and Nobel laureate
  • Abdulrazak GurnahTanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948)
Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite

Sean’s cards

Computed from February 25, 1971. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189351 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sean Astin 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 Sean Astin.

Quick answers about Sean Astin’s chart

How old is Sean Astin?
Sean Astin is 55 years old, born February 25, 1971 in Santa Monica, United States.
What zodiac sign is Sean Astin?
Sean Astin is a Pisces: born February 25, 1971, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Sean Astin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 25, 1971 birth.
What is Sean Astin's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Sean Astin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sean Astin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sean Astin's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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