Stephen Boyd
Stephen Boyd (born July 4, 1931, Glengormley, United Kingdom; died 1977), was a Northern Irish actor. Boyd's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Stephen Boyd’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Stephen
Stephen Boyd’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Stephen in the U.S.?
#383
US rank in 2025
~867,669
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1931, Stephen came 130th among boys and 4,286th among girls, carried by 1,334 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stephen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, 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 Stephen apart
Stephen Boyd took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture in 1959, at 28.
Training came by way of Ballyclare High School.
The working life starts in 1955, at 24.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Stephen Boyd: People from Glengormley, Burials at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery and Male film actors from Northern Ireland.
Post Malone (1995) and Michael Sorrentino (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ballyclare High School
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1959)
- Nominated for
- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- Working from
- 1955
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen feels the room before entering it. The core of Stephen 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 Stephen, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen 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 Stephen like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Stephen creates
How Stephen makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Stephen creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Stephen is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Stephen is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Stephen channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Stephen's birth date. Working below.
Where Stephen sits
Six lines
Stephen’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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Stephen Boyd
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glengormley 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 Glengormley that night
Computed for 54.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Glengormley at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 7.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
At 54.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −35.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 78% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -6° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Glengormley, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Northridge, Los Angeles County in 1977.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stephen Boyd: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Stephen's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Uranus
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 →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Stephen Boyd's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 4, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Stephen Boyd was born on July 4, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Stephen Boyd's birth date, July 4, 1931, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Boyd's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stephen Boyd combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.0° to 6.8° orb
Stephen’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Stephen’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussquarePluto1.0° orb
Stephen’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.1° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.5° to 1.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.1° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.0° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn6.4° to 6.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto6.9° to 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Stephen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°08′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 9°07′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 19°30′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 12°32′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros square Pluto 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.0°
- Eros square Saturn 1.1°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres square Sun 2.4°
- Eros square Mercury 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.6°
Stephen’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Stephen’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, PlutoThree 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 onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Saturn, UranusAn 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.
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.0°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°
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Also born on July 4
- Post Malone1995
- Michael Sorrentino1981
- Douglas Leone1957
- Becki Newton1978
- Alyssa Miller1989
- Malia Obama1998
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- V. S. NaipaulTrinidadian-British writer
- Howard JacobsonBritish author and journalist
- Bernice RubensBritish writer
Other Cancer Goat charts
- Jhumpa LahiriAmerican author of Indian origin (born 1967)
- James Forman, Jr.American author and professor
- Henry E. PilkentonAmerican Kentucky poet laureate
- Robert A. HeinleinAmerican author and aeronautical engineer
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Vijay SeshadriAmerican poet
- Justin ChangAmerican film critic
- Fred ChappellAmerican poet, novelist
- Brannon Bragatelevision producer
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- Ben Roy MottelsonDanish-American nuclear physicist
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Stephen’s cards
Computed from July 4, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q683299 (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 Hugo van Gelderen / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Boyd at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stephen Boyd.
Quick answers about Stephen Boyd’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stephen Boyd?
- Stephen Boyd was a Cancer: born July 4, 1931, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Stephen Boyd's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 4, 1931 birth.
- What was Stephen Boyd's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stephen Boyd's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Stephen Boyd's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stephen Boyd's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
