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Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934, Rome, Italy, 14:10), aged 92, is an Italian actress. Loren is best known for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Loren's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Awards and Golden Bear.

Sophia Loren’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

Your match with Sophia

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Sophia Loren’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Storyteller

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, 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 107 American girls and 5 boys named Sophia in 1934: 650th among girls and 4,138th among boys 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.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1).

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

1 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Sophia apart

George R. R. Martin (1948) and Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
Italy and France
Languages
French, Italian and English

What the chart says

Sophia, according to the stars

Core essence

Sophia notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Sophia is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

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 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 Sophia and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Sophia creates

How Sophia makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Sophia builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sophia is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sophia leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Sophia fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Sophia

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Sophia Loren

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rome on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above Rome at 14:10, Sophia Loren’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Rome that night

Computed for 41.89°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Rome was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 82.1° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

Rome sits at 41.9°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 −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 90% lit at waxing gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -40° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Rome, Italy
Lives in
Geneva

Wikidata records Geneva as Sophia Loren's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

Against Rome, Shared Places reads Geneva as strongly supportive for this chart: 90 of 100, 4th of 169 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Amsterdam, Netherlands, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Sophia's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Strategist 天機, The Lunar Star 太陰 in 寅

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifestor, profile 5/1

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Pluto · 1 planet 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.

Score your own chart →

If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Sophia Loren's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Wood Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Sophia Loren was born on September 20, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Sophia Loren's birth date, September 20, 1934, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Sophia’s chart

Sophia’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.1° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbVenus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.1° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.7° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.1° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 4.8° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.9° orbSun in Virgo · 26°53′ · house 9☉26°Moon in Aquarius · 20°45′ · house 2☽20°Mercury in Libra · 15°54′ · house 10☿15°Venus in Virgo · 11°37′ · house 9♀11°Mars in Leo · 13°12′ · house 8♂13°Jupiter in Libra · 25°40′ · house 10♃25°Saturn in Aquarius · 22°33′ · house 2 · retrograde♄℞22°Uranus in Taurus · 0°42′ · house 5 · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Virgo · 12°41′ · house 9♆12°Pluto in Cancer · 25°47′ · house 7♇25°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 5°28′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 5°28′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSco 0°51′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICTau 0°51′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 0.1° orb

    Sophia’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • SunsextilePlutoseparating · 1.1° orb

    Sophia’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.1° orb

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

  • MoonconjunctionSaturnapplying · 1.8° orb

  • MercurysextileMarsseparating · 2.7° orb

  • JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 3.1° orb

  • MoontrineMercuryseparating · 4.8° orb

  • MoontrineJupiterapplying · 4.9° orb

  • UranussquarePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb

  • JupiteroppositionUranusapplying · 5.0° orb

  • MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 6.6° orb

  • MoonoppositionMarsseparating · 7.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Sophia’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 9°56′ · House 6

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 18°08′ · House 7

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 23°15′ · House 9

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 22°26′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°03′ · House 8

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.1°
  • Chiron square Venus 1.7°
  • Hygiea conjunction Moon 1.7°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.2°
  • Eros sextile Pluto 2.5°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.8°

Sophia’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon, Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Sophia’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn 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.

  • Sun biquintile Moon 0.1°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 0.8°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.3°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.9°

Sophia’s houses

Sophia’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 2emptyself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Taurus, house 5Moon, Saturnmoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Virgo, house 9emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Leo, house 8emptyhome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Virgo, house 9Uranuscreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Libra, house 10emptywork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Aquarius, house 2Plutopartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Virgo, house 9Marsshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Libra, house 10Sun, Venus, Neptunebelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Virgo, house 9Mercury, Jupitercareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 7emptyfriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 10emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Sophia’s cards

Computed from September 20, 1934. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sophia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43252 (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 Unknown. Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sophia Loren at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sophia Loren.

Quick answers about Sophia Loren’s chart

How old is Sophia Loren?
Sophia Loren is 92 years old, born September 20, 1934 in Rome, Italy.
What zodiac sign is Sophia Loren?
Sophia Loren is a Virgo: born September 20, 1934, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What is Sophia Loren's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 20, 1934 birth.
What time was Sophia Loren born?
14:10 local time in Rome, Italy, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Sophia Loren's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 14:10 birth time in Rome, Italy (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Sophia Loren?
Sophia Loren is 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Sophia Loren's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Sophia Loren's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 9°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sophia Loren's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sophia Loren's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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