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Sophia Bush

Sophia Bush (born July 8, 1982, Pasadena, United States), aged 44, is an American actress. Notable films include One Tree Hill, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and John Tucker Must Die.

Sophia Bush’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Sophia Bush’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#5

US rank in 2025

~439,619

Americans share it since 1880

2012

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Sophia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Sophia, according to the stars

Core essence

Sophia feels the room before entering it. The core of Sophia is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Sophia, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Sophia 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 Sophia 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 Sophia wants to be loved

Sophia 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 Sophia like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Sophia creates

How Sophia makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Sophia creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Sophia is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Sophia 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Sophia fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Sophia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Sophia sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Sophia

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sophia

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

PrivateExpressive
Sophia

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sophia

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Sophia

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sophia

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Sophia Bush at a glance

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Sophia Bush's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 8, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Sophia Bush was born on July 8, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Sophia Bush's birth date, July 8, 1982, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Sophia’s chart

Sophia’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Sophia Bush, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.1° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.2° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.4° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 0.7° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.8° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.3° orbSun in Cancer · 16°16′☉16°Moon in Aquarius · 13°28′☽13°Mercury in Gemini · 28°49′☿28°Venus in Gemini · 15°46′♀15°Mars in Libra · 16°31′♂16°Jupiter in Scorpio · 0°37′♃0°Saturn in Libra · 15°50′♄15°Uranus in Sagittarius · 0°59′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Sagittarius · 25°06′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Libra · 24°07′♇24°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Sophia’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Sophia’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenustrineMars0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Sophia’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.5° to 0.9° orb

    Sophia’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.0° to 2.6° orb

    Sophia’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb

    Sophia’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.9° to 4.6° orb

    Sophia’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto3.9° to 5.6° orb

    Sophia’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto6.5° orb

    Sophia’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.4° to 7.8° orb

    Sophia’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Sophia’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 26°14′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Sophia building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 13°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Sophia is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 8°54′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Sophia is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 19°44′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Sophia at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Sophia is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.3°

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°).

Sophia’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Sophia is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Sophia’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.1°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.2°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sophia Bush, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Sophia’s family here

One relative of Sophia Bush also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Sophia’s cards

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Strength

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Sophia Bush, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Sophia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206916, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Jay Dixit, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sophia Bush at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sophia Bush.

Quick answers about Sophia Bush’s chart

How old is Sophia Bush?
Sophia Bush is 44 years old, born July 8, 1982 in Pasadena, United States.
What zodiac sign is Sophia Bush?
Sophia Bush is a Cancer: born July 8, 1982, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog.
What is Sophia Bush's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 8, 1982 birth.
What time was Sophia Bush born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Sophia Bush's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 8, 1982 birth date.
What is Sophia Bush's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 8, 1982 birth date.
Where is Sophia Bush's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sophia Bush's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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