Sean Penn
Sean Penn (born August 17, 1960, Santa Monica, United States, 15:17), aged 66, is an American actor. Notable films include Two and a Half Men, Milk and Into the Wild. Penn's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
Sean Penn’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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Sean Penn’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Sean in the U.S.?
#489
US rank in 2025
~426,606
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Sean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Sean, according to the stars
Core essence
Sean is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Sean is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Sean is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Sean needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Sean wants to be loved
Sean 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 Sean and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Sean creates
How Sean makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Sean creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Sean is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Sean 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Sean scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Sean's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Sean sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Sean Penn at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Sean Penn's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Sean Penn was born on August 17, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Sean Penn's birth date, August 17, 1960, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Sean’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Sean Penn's timed chart: Venus in the 10th house, Mars in the 7th house, Jupiter in the 1st house and Pluto in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Sean Penn's timed chart is Moon sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Sean Penn combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Sean’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 0.2° orb
Sean’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenussquareMarsseparating · 0.2° orb
Sean’s affections grind against their drive.
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 0.9° orb
Sean’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.1° orb
Sean’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SuntrineJupiterseparating · 1.2° orb
Sean’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
MercurysextileMarsseparating · 1.7° orb
Sean’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
VenustrineSaturnapplying · 2.0° orb
Sean’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
JupitertrineUranusapplying · 2.1° orb
Sean’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.3° orb
Sean’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb
Sean’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsextileVenusapplying · 4.7° orb
Sean’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 4.7° orb
Sean’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
VenusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.9° orb
Sean’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 5.3° orb
Sean’s mind grinds against their imagination.
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 6.8° orb
Sean’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SaturntrinePlutoapplying · 7.0° orb
Sean’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Sean’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 0°04′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Sean absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 21°20′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Sean is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosGemini 9°23′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Sean is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 19°54′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Sean is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 11°18′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Sean guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.9°
- Eros square Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.5°
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°).
Sean’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Sean is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Sean’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Leo · 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.
Yod onto Saturn · Mercury, Mars, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.6°
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Moon semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 2.3°
Sean’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 1 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 2 | Saturn | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 9 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 7 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 10 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 9 | Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 8 | Moon | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 9 | Sun, Mercury, Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 9 | Venus, Pluto | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 10 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 10 | Neptune | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Sean’s cards
Every card is computed from August 17, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Sean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44221, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Sean Penn’s chart
- How old is Sean Penn?
- Sean Penn is 66 years old, born August 17, 1960 in Santa Monica, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Sean Penn?
- Sean Penn is a Leo: born August 17, 1960, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is Sean Penn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 17, 1960 birth.
- What time was Sean Penn born?
- 15:17 local time in Santa Monica, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Sean Penn's rising sign?
- Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 15:17 birth time in Santa Monica, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Sean Penn?
- Sean Penn is 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Sean Penn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 17, 1960 birth date.
- What is Sean Penn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 0°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 17, 1960 birth time.
- Where is Sean Penn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 11°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sean Penn's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
