Simon Baker
Simon Baker (born July 30, 1969, Launceston, Australia), aged 57, is an Australian actor and director. Notable films include The Mentalist, The Devil Wears Prada and L.A. Confidential. Baker's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Simon Baker’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Simon
Simon Baker’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Simon in the U.S.?
#230
US rank in 2025
~70,444
Americans share it since 1880
2015
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1969, Simon came 497th, carried by 244 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Simon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Simon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets Simon apart
Simon Baker took the star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013, at 44.
The classrooms behind this chart: Ballina High School and University of New South Wales.
The working life starts in 1988, at 19.
Simon Baker was married Rebecca Rigg.
Henry Ford (1863) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ballina High School and University of New South Wales
- Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2013)
- Working from
- 1988
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Simon, according to the stars
Core essence
Simon is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Simon 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, Simon needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Simon needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Simon wants to be loved
Simon wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Simon like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Simon creates
How Simon makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Simon creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Simon is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Simon is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Simon 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 Simon's birth date. Working below.
Where Simon sits
Six lines
Simon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Simon Baker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Launceston 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 Launceston that night
Computed for 41.44°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Launceston was Sargas, in Scorpius, 86.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Canopus in Carina, and 64 catalog stars were up in all.
Launceston sits at 41.4°S, high enough that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
How unusual Simon's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Simon Baker's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 30, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Simon Baker was born on July 30, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Simon Baker's birth date, July 30, 1969, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Simon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Simon Baker's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Simon Baker combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Simon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Aquarius 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
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb
Simon’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.3° to 2.2° orb
Simon’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquarePluto1.5° to 2.6° orb
Simon’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineMars1.6° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
stableMarssextileUranus3.7° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter4.2° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.2° to 6.3° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Simon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°42′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 4°05′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 29°24′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°22′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 15°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Sun 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.7°
- Eros square Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.9°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.4°
- Ceres opposition Sun 2.6°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.8°
Simon’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Simon’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.8°
More people like Simon
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- Jennifer Lopez1969
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- Josh Holloway1969
- Matthew Settle1969
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Born in Australia
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More charts like Simon’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Keito NakamuraJapanese association football player
- Sebastián CáceresUruguayan association football player
- Rodrigo ZalazarUruguayan footballer (born 1999)
Born in Rooster years
- Cruz Beckhamson of David and Victoria Beckham
- Ally BrookeAmerican singer
- Anne BurrellAmerican television chef
Also born on July 30
- Henry Ford1863
- Arnold Schwarzenegger1947
- Christopher Nolan1970
- Lisa Kudrow1963
- Kate Bush1958
- Terry Crews1968
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Christiaan EijkmanDutch physician
- Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937
- Ragnar GranitFinnish scientist
Other Leo Rooster charts
- Jesse WilliamsAmerican actor, director, producer, and activist
- Jordan SpiethAmerican professional golfer
- Cameron SmithAustralian professional golfer
- Fernando AlonsoSpanish racing driver
Other Radiant Scholars
- Hermann StaudingerGerman chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Moungi BawendiAmerican chemist of French and Tunisian descent
- Konrad Emil BlochGerman American biochemist
- Selma LagerlöfSwedish writer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Svante August ArrheniusSwedish astronomer, chemist and physicist
- Alexander ProkhorovSoviet and Russian physicist
- Kurt WüthrichSwiss chemist (born 1938)
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Simon’s cards
Computed from July 30, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Simon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192021 (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 Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Simon Baker at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Simon Baker.
Quick answers about Simon Baker’s chart
- How old is Simon Baker?
- Simon Baker is 57 years old, born July 30, 1969 in Launceston, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Simon Baker?
- Simon Baker is a Leo: born July 30, 1969, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Simon Baker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 30, 1969 birth.
- What is Simon Baker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Simon Baker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Simon Baker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Simon Baker's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
