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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Stephen
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.
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 7,503 American boys and 23 girls named Stephen in 1942: 32nd among boys and 1,798th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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 · 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
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 1941, 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
The record Stephen Hawking is measured by: My Brief History, The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World and A Brief History of Time.
Study took Stephen Hawking to Byron House School and St Albans School.
The record gives amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as the cause, and Westminster Abbey as the resting place.
On the family side, Stephen Hawking was born to Isobel Eileen Hawking and Frank Hawking, married Jane Hawking and Elaine Mason and raised 3 children.
Elvis Presley (1935) and Kim Jong-un (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- My Brief History, The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World and A Brief History of Time
- Educated at
- Byron House School, St Albans School and St Albans High School for Girls
- Awards
- Royal Society Science Books Prize (2002), Copley Medal (2006) and Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
- Cause of death
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Buried at
- Westminster Abbey
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 201
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. Working below.
Where Stephen sits
Six lines
Stephen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Hawking
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oxford 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 Oxford that night
Computed for 51.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Oxford at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirfak of Perseus, within 3.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 51.8°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 −38.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 65% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
How unusual Stephen's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
Grand trine · T-square onto Mars · Five planets retrograde
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
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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableUranustrineNeptune3.2° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.8° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.1° to 7.8° orb
stableMarssquarePluto6.5° to 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 13°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 3°55′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 13°51′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Stephen’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Stephen’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Snake years
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- Robert LoggiaAmerican actor
Also born on January 8
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- David Bowie1947
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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
Computed from January 8, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17714 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stephen Hawking.
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.
- 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 was Stephen Hawking's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stephen Hawking's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
