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, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Sophia
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
The SSA recorded 1,161 American girls named Sophia in 1982: 224th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sophia’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
1
Soul Urge · independence
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sophia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Sophia apart
Sophia Bush was taught at USC School of Dramatic Arts and USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Sophia Bush was 20 when the work began in 2002.
The family line: married Grant Hughes and Chad Michael Murray.
John D. Rockefeller (1839) and Son Heung-min (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- USC School of Dramatic Arts and USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Working from
- 2002
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
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. Working below.
Where Sophia sits
Six lines
Sophia’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Sophia Bush
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pasadena 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 Pasadena that night
Computed for 34.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Pasadena at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.5° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.
Pasadena sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pasadena on any night.
The Moon, 93% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
How unusual Sophia's chart is
Chart pattern score
41 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets · 2 planets at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →Sophia Bush at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards 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.
What Cancer means →Water Dog
Water DogWorries 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.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Sophia Bush's birth date, July 8, 1982, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Sophia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sophia Bush's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
- Sophia Bush combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Sophia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° 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
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
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.5° to 0.9° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.0° to 2.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.9° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.9° to 5.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto6.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.4° to 7.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 26°14′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 13°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 8°54′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 19°44′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.3°
Sophia’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Sophia’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.
- 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°
Sophia’s family here
One relative of Sophia Bush also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Sophia
Other actors
- Ini Edo1982
- Anna Paquin1982
- Hilarie Burton1982
- Abbie Cornish1982
- Kirsten Dunst1982
- Jared Padalecki1982
Born in United States
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- Eli SaslowAmerican journalist
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More charts like Sophia’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Sylvester StalloneAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Czesław MiłoszPolish-American poet and Nobel laureate
- Muhammad YunusBangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
Born in Dog years
- Margaret QualleyAmerican actress
- Elisabeth MossBritish-American actress and producer
- RMSouth Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and leader of the boy band BTS
Also born on July 8
- John D. Rockefeller1839
- Son Heung-min1992
- Virgil van Dijk1991
- Jaden Smith1998
- Jess Mariano1977
- Yann Le Cun1960
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- James Earl JonesAmerican actor
- June AllysonAmerican actress
- Edmund GwennBritish actor
Other Cancer Dog charts
- Michael MilkenAmerican investor
- George W. BushPresident of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Wole SoyinkaNigerian writer
- Priyanka ChopraIndian actress
Other Tidal Strategists
- Vasily AnisimovRussian businessman
- Viatcheslav Moshe KantorRussian businessman
- Rafael del Pino Calvo-SoteloExecutive Chairman of Ferrovial
- Igor KesaevRussian billionaire retail businessman (born 1966)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Matheus NunesPortuguese footballer (born 1998)
- Emiliano MartínezUruguayan footballer (born 1999)
- Elye WahiIvorian association football player (born 2003)
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Sophia’s cards
Computed from July 8, 1982. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sophia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206916 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Sophia Bush's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sophia Bush's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
