Sebastian Koch
Sebastian Koch (born May 31, 1962, Karlsruhe, Germany), aged 64, is a German actor. Koch's honours include Bavarian TV Awards.
Sebastian Koch’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Sebastian
Sebastian Koch’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Sebastian in the U.S.?
#16
US rank in 2025
~218,463
Americans share it since 1881
2016
its peak year
Sebastian ranked 631st in 1962, the year of this birth, with 151 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sebastian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
Sebastian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 Sebastian apart
Sebastian Koch took the Bavarian TV Awards in 2002, at 40.
The working life starts in 1990, at 28.
On the family side, Sebastian Koch was married Carice van Houten.
Wikipedia's editors put Sebastian Koch under Male actors from Karlsruhe and German male stage actors.
Clint Eastwood (1930) and Colin Farrell (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Bavarian TV Awards (2002)
- Working from
- 1990
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 30
What the chart says
Sebastian, according to the stars
Core essence
Sebastian is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Sebastian needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Sebastian is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Sebastian needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Sebastian wants to be loved
Sebastian wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Sebastian gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Sebastian creates
How Sebastian makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Sebastian creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Sebastian 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Sebastian 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Sebastian is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Sebastian's birth date. Working below.
Where Sebastian sits
Six lines
Sebastian’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Sebastian Koch
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Karlsruhe 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 Karlsruhe that night
Computed for 49.02°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Karlsruhe was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 83.9° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 49.0°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Karlsruhe at all: they sit past the −41.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 4% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
How unusual Sebastian's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Sebastian Koch's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Sebastian Koch was born on May 31, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Sebastian Koch's birth date, May 31, 1962, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Sebastian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sebastian Koch's date-only chart is Saturn square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sebastian Koch combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Sebastian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.6° orb
Sebastian’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.1° orb
Sebastian’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.2° to 0.4° orb
Sebastian’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.5° to 1.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune0.8° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter1.2° to 2.0° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsquarePluto1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussextilePluto1.9° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.8° to 5.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Sebastian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 10°48′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 26°52′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 16°37′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 4°15′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
- Chiron trine Venus 0.8°
- Chiron square Sun 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.4°
Sebastian’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Sebastian’s chart
Kite · Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.9°
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More charts like Sebastian’s
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- Emma McKeonAustralian swimmer
- Oksana ChusovitinaSoviet-Uzbek-German artistic gymnast
- Ayra StarrBeninese-Nigerian singer
Born in Tiger years
- Ja'Sir TaylorAmerican football player
- Jake HummelAmerican football player
- Grant DelpitAmerican football player
Also born on May 31
- Clint Eastwood1930
- Colin Farrell1976
- Brooke Shields1965
- Chien-Shiung Wu1912
- Iga Świątek2001
- Azealia Banks1991
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Denholm ElliottBritish actor
- Vinnie JonesBritish footballer and actor
- William SylvesterAmerican film actor
Other Gemini Tiger charts
- Arnold VoslooSouth African actor
- Ally SheedyAmerican actress
- Mark BallasAmerican actor and dancer
- Jeff GarlinAmerican comedian and actor
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Salvatore CascioItalian actor (born 1979)
- Barry HumphriesAustralian comedian and actor
- Adile NaşitTurkish stage, voice and film actress; comedian, story teller
- Paul ScofieldBritish actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- William TellAmerican rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist
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Sebastian’s cards
Computed from May 31, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sebastian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q63187 (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 Till Brönner, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sebastian Koch at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sebastian Koch.
Quick answers about Sebastian Koch’s chart
- How old is Sebastian Koch?
- Sebastian Koch is 64 years old, born May 31, 1962 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Sebastian Koch?
- Sebastian Koch is a Gemini: born May 31, 1962, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Sebastian Koch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1962 birth.
- What is Sebastian Koch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sebastian Koch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sebastian Koch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sebastian Koch's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
