Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking (born January 8, 1942, Oxford, United Kingdom; died 2018), was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author. Hawking is best remembered for My Brief History, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays and The Universe in a Nutshell. Hawking's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Order of the British Empire and Order of the Companions of Honour.
Stephen Hawking’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Stephen Hawking’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.
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US rank in 2025
~867,669
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
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Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Stephen is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Stephen be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Stephen creates
How Stephen makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Stephen creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Stephen is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Stephen gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Stephen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Stephen sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Stephen Hawking's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 8, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Stephen Hawking's birth date, January 8, 1942, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Hawking's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Water.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Stephen Hawking 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
No documented birth time exists for Stephen Hawking, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.9° orb
Stephen’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.6° to 2.2° orb
Stephen’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.0° to 2.6° orb
Stephen’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.0° to 1.2° orb
Stephen’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.2° orb
Stephen’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.8° to 4.8° orb
Stephen’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
Stephen’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenussquareUranus5.8° to 6.0° orb
Stephen’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.1° to 7.8° orb
Stephen’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquarePluto6.5° to 7.0° orb
Stephen’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Stephen’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 13°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Stephen performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAquarius 3°55′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Stephen is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 13°51′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Stephen attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Stephen is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Stephen that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.1°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.5°
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°).
Stephen’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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Stephen is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Stephen’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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stephen Hawking, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Stephen’s cards
Every card is computed from January 8, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Stephen Hawking, 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
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17714, 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 Tanya Hart, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Hawking at Wikipedia, hawking.org.uk, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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.
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Quick answers about Stephen Hawking’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stephen Hawking?
- Stephen Hawking was a Capricorn: born January 8, 1942, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
- What was Stephen Hawking's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1942 birth.
- What time was Stephen Hawking 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 was Stephen Hawking's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the January 8, 1942 birth date.
- What was Stephen Hawking's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 8, 1942 birth date.
- Where was Stephen Hawking's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stephen Hawking's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
