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Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry (born August 24, 1957, Hampstead, United Kingdom), aged 69, is a British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist. Fry is best known for Mythos, Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive and The Liar. Fry's honours include Knight Bachelor, Commander of the Order of the Phoenix and Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

Stephen Fry’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Stephen Fry’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, 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

The SSA recorded 19,726 American boys and 39 girls named Stephen in 1957: 24th among boys and 1,746th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Stephen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

11

Personality · perceptive

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

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Lilac · Flame orange

The record

What sets Stephen apart

Jorge Luis Borges (1899) and Paulo Coelho (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Stephen, according to the stars

Core essence

Stephen 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 Stephen is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Stephen needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Stephen needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Stephen wants to be loved

Stephen wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Stephen gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Stephen creates

How Stephen makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Stephen creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Stephen 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Stephen is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Stephen

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Stephen

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

PrivateExpressive
Stephen

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stephen

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

PracticalVisionary
Stephen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stephen

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hampstead 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 Hampstead that night

Computed for 51.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hampstead at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 2.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 51.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −38.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hampstead on any night.

The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 8° below the horizon.

How unusual Stephen's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 3 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.

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Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Stephen Fry's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 24, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Fire Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Stephen Fry was born on August 24, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Stephen Fry's birth date, August 24, 1957, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Stephen’s chart

Stephen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.7° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.8° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.5° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.5° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.5° orbSun in Virgo · 1°00′☉0°Moon in Leo · 16°23′☽16°Mercury in Virgo · 24°52′☿24°Venus in Libra · 5°18′♀5°Mars in Virgo · 10°18′♂10°Jupiter in Libra · 3°17′♃3°Saturn in Sagittarius · 7°48′♄7°Uranus in Leo · 8°47′♅8°Neptune in Scorpio · 0°19′♆0°Pluto in Virgo · 0°10′♇0°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.2° to 1.1° orb

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

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto0.4° to 1.3° orb

    Stephen’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.5° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn1.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.2° to 2.8° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 15.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 1.0° to 16.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 4.1° to 18.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 13°56′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 7°42′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 17°11′ (moves 0.87° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 19°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 9°56′ (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 opposition Mars 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.1°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.4°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 2.6°

Stephen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Stephen’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quintile Saturn 0.9°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.1°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°

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Stephen’s cards

Computed from August 24, 1957. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192912 (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 Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Stephen Fry at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stephen Fry.

Quick answers about Stephen Fry’s chart

How old is Stephen Fry?
Stephen Fry is 69 years old, born August 24, 1957 in Hampstead, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Stephen Fry?
Stephen Fry is a Virgo: born August 24, 1957, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Stephen Fry's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 24, 1957 birth.
How tall is Stephen Fry?
Stephen Fry is 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Stephen Fry's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Stephen Fry's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Stephen Fry's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Stephen Fry's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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