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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Sean
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 1925
1990
its peak year
In 1960, 1,421 American boys and 22 girls were registered Sean — 202nd among boys and 2,633rd 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
11
Soul Urge · insight
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, 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 Sean apart
The Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor came in 1997, when Sean Penn was 37.
Study took Sean Penn to Santa Monica College and Santa Monica High School.
Sean Penn was 14 when the work began in 1974.
The family line: born to Eileen Ryan and Leo Penn, married Madonna and Robin Wright and raised 2 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read César Honorary Award recipients, American people convicted of assault and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners.
Robert De Niro (1943) and Herta Müller (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Santa Monica College and Santa Monica High School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (2004), Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (1997) and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (2026)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor and International Cinephile Society Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1974
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 100
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. Working below.
Where Sean sits
Six lines
Sean’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Sean Penn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Santa Monica on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Santa Monica at 15:17, Sean Penn’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Santa Monica that night
Computed for 34.02°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Santa Monica at the birth hour: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 10.3° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
Santa Monica sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 18% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -52° down.
What Sean's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Lunar Star 太陰 in 亥
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Generator, profile 1/3
Sacral authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Saturn · 3-planet stellium in Leo
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
SuntrineJupiterseparating · 1.2° orb
MercurysextileMarsseparating · 1.7° orb
VenustrineSaturnapplying · 2.0° orb
JupitertrineUranusapplying · 2.1° orb
SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.3° orb
VenussextileNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb
MoonsextileVenusapplying · 4.7° orb
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 4.7° orb
VenusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.9° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 5.3° orb
MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 6.8° orb
SaturntrinePlutoapplying · 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 0°04′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 21°20′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 9°23′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 19°54′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 11°18′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Sean’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Sean’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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
Computed from August 17, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Sean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44221 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sean Penn 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 Sean Penn.
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.
- 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.
- What is Sean Penn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 0°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
